Orienteering is an exciting, challenging sport. It involves competitive navigation using a map and compass - competitors choose their own way between control points. Most orienteering takes place in woodland or on open hillsides, but can also take place in school playgrounds and urban parks.

For beginners, we recommend one of our Saturday Events, or perhaps try one of our District Events (or maybe at one of the other local clubs), which will always have beginners courses and helpful advice from the club members.

Berkshire Orienteers (BKO) is the orienteering club for Berkshire and surrounding areas, 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.

What is Orienteering? - see our What is Orienteering page.

Recent Club News

Our next few Events

Berkshire Orienteers (abbreviated as BKO) welcomes new members of whatever standard, from complete beginners and juniors to experienced orienteers who have moved locally from another area. To learn more about orienteering, see our What Is Orienteering? page. To join Berkshire Orienteers, please contact the Membership secretary, Alan Springett, by email - membership@bko.org.uk.

BKO Committee

The committee consists of the following members, who have regular meetings. Please volunteer to help at events without a committee member or organiser asking, as it makes their job so much easier.

Chairman

Eric Harper - 0118 948 2934 -

In a short while, there will be a forum for club members on this web site, to discuss events, technical matters and social chatter.

If you want to take part in this (and it would be good if lots of us join, to make it worthwhile), you will need to register on the web site and log in to make comments.

I will put up details of how to do this early in the New Year, when the forum is in full operation.

Tim

The Data Protection Act 1998 imposes rules and safeguards on those who hold and process personal data, ie data relating to living identifiable individuals. Details of usage must be notified to the UK Information Commissioner, with some exceptions which include not-for-profit organisations whose usage is restricted to specified purposes. Berkshire Orienteers is exempt from notification but the principles setting out rules and safeguards do apply. In the interests of being open and fair, the club wishes to inform members of the data held and how it is used.
BKO and its officials may hold some or all of the following data about some or all members and others who compete in orienteering events: name, postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers, year of birth, competition age class, competition results, offices held, skills and qualifications, courses attended and details of officiating at competitions. Contact data is held for landowners and other organisations with whom we co-operate, their employees, agents and tenants. The data may be held in electronic or paper form.

Membership Contact

Enquiries about membership should be sent to the Membership secretary, Alan Springett, by email - For other enquiries, in the first instance, contact the webmaster, Tim Booth -

Committee

To contact members of the Committee, please see individual details on the Committee page.

Email Mailing List

There is a BKO email mailing list, to keep you in touch with club events and last minute changes. If you wish to join this list, please send an email to the address below, and further instructions will be sent to let you know how to proceed -

Web Site

To pass on information, suggestions and corrections to the site, please contact the webmaster via email:

Webmaster: Tim Booth -