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The Compass Sport Cup Final 2023, organised by Bristol Orienteering Klub, took place three weeks later than usual, giving Britain’s weather the chance to make things more ‘interesting’ than usual. Richard Rossington, Organiser of the Compass Sport Cup Final 2023 provides his account of how the event unfolded.

North Gloucestershire Orienteering Club hosted the warm-up event for the Compass Sport Cup final at Highmeadow in the Forest of Dean this year. Andy Stott volunteered as the planner/organiser for a NGOC league event at Highmeadow when the fixtures list was released at the end of last year and in March and gives his account here on planning the event.

In addition to her role as Access and Environment Officer for British Orienteering, Emma Monkham also run a charity for young people and sport , where they offer the chance for young people to try new sports during the school holidays. She tells us more about an activity at Belper River Gardens in Derbyshire in this blog.

Berkshire Orienteers had the opportunity to collaborate with Beat the Street in the West Reading area for 6 weeks during September and October this year. More than 6,500 players took part covering nearly 80,000 miles between them. Here, John Methven shares more about the club's experience.

During October half term this year, Deeside Orienteers offered two MapRun courses in line with the Find Your Way Project at Castle Park in Frodsham. Chairman of the club, John Padget tells us more about how they went about publicising and hosting the events.

The Find Your Way Project is a Sport England funded initiative to introduce young people and families to our sport, particularly those from socially disadvantaged areas. Here, we showcase the benefits of the project from some of the the club's perspective.

The Junior Home Internationals take place every year in early October. The top 12 male and 12 females in each of the age groups M/W14, M/W16 and M/W18’s from all the home nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland compete in a two day orienteering event with an Individual Day and a Relay Day. Ian Gamlen (Harlequins Orienteering Club) was the 2023 Event Co-ordinator, and here he gives his overview of the event.

On 23-24 September the 33rd running of the annual Junior Inter-regional Championships took place with 200 Juniors from the 12 regional junior squads across the whole country competing against each other.

At the beginning of September Jason Falconer (Wessex Orienteering Club) and Find Your Way Officer, Caroline Barcham attended the Gilwell Reunion Scout Weekend at Gilwell Park. The Reunion is the largest Scout Leader gathering in the UK and is a weekend for Scout Leaders to connect, upskill and gain information about events and activities which will improve their offer to the groups they lead.

Brunel University were the hosts yesterday for the final British Championship of 2023! London Orienteering Klubb put on a fantastic and well-planned event once more with 150 teams tackling the grounds of the somewhat intricate university grounds. In the Elite category South Yorkshire Orienteers (SYO) came out on top with a superb result ahead of Bristol Orienteering Klub (BOK) and multiple-time winners Forth Valley Orienteers (FVO). SYO also took 1st place in Junior (-16) category pipping the Dorset Junior team who came in second and the Junior (-12) category coming in ahead of West Anglian Orienteering Club (WAOC) in second and South Downs Orienteering Club (SO) in third.