Club Information - some facts and figures
- This page details some facts and information about Berkshire Orienteers and how to find out more information about us.
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- Berkshire Orienteers is part of the South Central Orienteering Association, the regional body, and is a member club of the British Orienteering Federation, the National Governing Body.
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- Membership
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- About 200
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- Area
- The county of Royal Berkshire and parts of South Buckinghamshire including the towns of Reading, Maidenhead, Bracknell, Slough, Windsor and Newbury and their immediate locations together with some members from the northern parts of Hampshire and Surrey.
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- Joining the club
- See Joining the Club for more details.
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- Clubmark
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- Berkshire Orienteers has attained Clubmark accreditation. This is the Sport England accreditation for high quality clubs, and commits us to good practice in duty of care, child protection, sporting ethics and club management. Please see our Clubmark page for more details of our policies. You can also look at the Sport England Clubmark web site, where the general policies are set out in more detail.
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- Events
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- One major regional event annually (Concorde Chase), plus several District events, Saturday informal events, Wednesday evening club training and social events. See events for details of forthcoming open events.
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- Terrain
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- Coniferous forests with good path networks, or southern heathland with mixed open and forested areas. Typical maps would be Star Posts (British Champs 89, Harvester 94, National Event 1 98, JK 2003) and Hawley Common (Junior Inter-Regional Relays 95, JK Relays 99, British Night Championships 2006).
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- Management
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- Berkshire Orienteers is organised by a Committee, elected by the Club at an annual AGM. See Committee for more details.
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- Contact
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- To contact the club and to find out more information, see Contacts.
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- Data Privacy Policy
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- In common with many other clubs, Berkshire Orienteers has a data privacy policy for any data we may collect. See Data Privacy Policy for more details.
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- RSS Feeds
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- This web site has a number of useful RSS feeds for those who would like their content delivered to them by an RSS aggregator. The small orange "XML" link at the bottom of many areas such as Events, Results, Newsletters, etc contains the RSS link to be pasted into your aggregator.