Information for Members
Welcome to the Information for Members page of the Access and Environment section of the British Orienteering website. This page is used to help share useful resources to help you and your club with the permissions negotiations with Landowners and Managers for staging club activities and events.
Useful Resources and Links
Patience, Persistence and Politeness – key factors in gaining access
Ranald Macdonald explains how working together with BOF's Access and Environment Officer Emma Monkham, alongside other key local stakeholders, they managed to negotiate back access to the terrain; proof indeed that patience, persistence and politeness are key in negotiating access!
Forestry England - an introduction to the new Connections system for permissions
Forestry England join us to guide members through their new centralised permissions system, and take questions in this webinar.
Calculate your Carbon Footprint
Want to calculate your current carbon footprint? This survey takes approximately 5 minutes to complete and can help you calculate your carbon footprint, enabling you to plan how to reduce it, by understanding how large it is and what is causing it.
Additional resources
- Presentation by Anne-Marie Duckworth (Derwent Valley Orienteers)
This presentation has been used during discussions with Estate Managers at Chatsworth House stately home in the Derbyshire Dales.
- International Orienteering Federation Environment and Sustainability Commission (IOF-ESC) can be accessed here.
- International Orienteering Federation: Orienteering and the Environment Survey can be accessed here.
- FE Agreement and insurance document
- Carbon calculation tool for transport to events documents
- How to estimate carbon emissions for road mobility of O-events
- Event Emission Simulation
- How to estimate carbon emissions for road mobility of O-events
If there is anything that you come across and need specific help with or any additional resources to support you with your discussions with Landowners and Managers, British Orienteering's Access and Environment Officer Emma Monkman would be happy to hear from you. Email: EMonkman@britishorienteering.org.uk
Information for Landowners is available here.
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