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Welcome to the North Gloucestershire Orienteering Club (NGOC) web site. Our home ground is the Forest of Dean and the western Cotswolds. For more details about the club contact Matthew King, membership secretary, 01242 226195. Beginners and newcomers welcome, especially at Informal events where help and instruction can be made available particularly if you contact the organiser in advance.

Links: British Orienteering SWOA SWJS (SOUTHWEST JUNIOR SQUAD) Wikipedia

Latest News British Orienteering

Results from the Hatherly Street O - Results, and details of forthcoming street O events - Details

Wessex Hardy Relay - Part of the South West Summer Series, 27th July Flyer

NGOC End of Season Event – Cleeve Hill (SO 989275), 14 June Flyer Control Descriptions Registration Form

The event will be a 60 minute score event.

The start point is near Cleeve Cloud golf club (NB – NOT the pylons, for those who know the area!). Parking will be in the public car park in the quarry – please do not use the golf club.

It is NOT a mass start – it is individual starts, between 1230-1400.

As a score event, there will be a total of 25 controls and a choice of two maps: one ‘normal’ and, for the more adventurous, one ‘windowed’: 200m diameter circles over each checkpoint contain full map info, the rest of the map is blank, to test your running on bearings between attack points!

Although it is an informal event, SI controls will be used (so bring your dibbers if you own one!), and results will be published on the NGOC website (split between normal and windowed ‘courses’).

The event fee is £3. BOF members will receive a £1 discount. Dibber hire is £1.

Street Orienteering or Summertime FUN!!!

Starting Wednesday June 25th we have a weekly series of Street O events lasting until the end of July. These are lots of fun and you can find lanes and footpaths you never even dreamt of! And they are happening somewhere near YOU! For any of you who have never tried these, they are set up like a treasure hunt with lots of questions to which the answers will be found by going to the control marked on the map. Usually trainers are the best footwear. It is a score event and usually lasts for 1 hour. All the questions answered correctly score points .... and what do points mean? ... a lot of fun! If you want any more details, please contact the organiser of the event or look on the website. The events have starts between 7 and 8 pm and last for 1 hour. Hope to see you at some of them. Here is the list:

25 June	Up Hatherley	Carol Stewart. 01242 514988 Meeting point: Morrisons Car Park on the corner of Up Hatherley Way and Caernarvon Road (beyond recycling skips) (entrance on Caernarvon Road). Grid ref: SO927201
2 July	Lydney	Roger Coe. 01594 510444 Meeting point: tba
9 July	Brockworth	Dave Hartley. 01452 863805 Meeting point: tba
16 July	Bishops Cleeve	Paul New. 01242 863126 Meeting point: tba
23 July	Leckhampton	John Burrows. 01242 520079 This event will use public footpaths (from the start) as well as streets. Travel Directions: Take the A46 SW from Cheltenham, signposted Shurdington and Brockworth. One mile after the traffic lights at Cheltenham College turn left just before the pedestrian crossing sign posted Leckhampton ¾ into Kidnappers Lane. The start will be about 200m along this road or from the roundabout on the A46 near Morrisons Supermarket head towards Cheltenham and turn right into Kidnappers Lane after 0.3 miles. Grid ref: 936198
30 July	Tewkesbury	John Fallows. 01684 290256 Morrisons car park 1 km west of M5 Junction 9.

Pat Cameron secretary@ngoc.org.uk 01684 294791

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Legend May (pdf)

Results NGOC British Orienteering MADO WNL

CSC Results CupResults Counters Results Splits

New Year Score Event Results

Bixslade Night Event - 16 February Results Splits

Mini-league 8 - KIdnalls - 10 May: Results Splits Standings

Mini-league 7- Cranham - 12 April: Results Splits Standings

Colour standards Cranham event:

Blue - 77.00 (50% of starters)

Green - 67.39 (50% of starters)

Orange - 56.40 (winner's time + 50%)

Minileague 6 - Mosley Green - 8 March 2008 Results Splits Standings Comments

Minileague 5 - Mallards Pike - 16 February 2008 Results Splits Standings

Minileague 4 - High Meadow - 26 January 2008 Results Splits Standings

Minileague 3 - Painswick - 1 December 2007 Results Splits Standings

Minileague 2 - Mallard's Pike - 3 November 2007 Results Splits Standings Comments

Minileague 1 - Sheepscombe - 6 October 2007 Results Splits Comments and Colour Times

Chairman's Challenge

Fixtures NGOC British Orienteering
The 07/08 NGOC fixtures list is here(pdf) For further fixtures information contact Bill Smith 01452 610924 or Roger Coe 01594 510444.

Registration/Start times: Note changed times for league events this season.
League events - Registration 1130 to 1230, Starts from 1230 to 1330
Night events - Registration from 1800 or when it gets dark! Informal Events - starts between 1230 and 1400.
Electronic punching at 07-08 League Events. Dibber Hire at league events £1.
REMINDER - If you are not a member of an Orienteering Club you will be 'non-competitive' at League events

Next Events

Sat 14 Jun	Cleeve	SO989275	End of Season event	Colin Parsons	01242 570216
Thurs 7 Aug	Wentwood		CROESO Day 4	Link

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