Officials
Mapper's Supporting Information
Coaching Award Scheme
Young Leader Award
- YLA Information Pack
- YLA Tutor Pack Application for Schools
- YLA Tutor Pack Application for non-School organisations
UKCC Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering
UKCC Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering
Old Level 4 * This is likely to be replaced by UKCC Level 3
- Level 4 Assessment Requirements
- Level 4 Application for Assessment Form
- Level 4 Assessment Outcome Form
Licensed Coaches
Coach Education Staff
Mentoring and Verification
Teaching Orienteering Part 1 and Part 2
- Qualification Pathway for trainee Teaching Orienteering Tutors
- Administration Procedure
- Course Registration Form
- Example Medical Form
- Resource Order Form
- Candidate Registration Form
- Course Evaluation Form
- Registering Participation Numbers for External Activities
Certificate in Tutoring Sport (CTS)
Introduction to Assessment Practices in Sport (IAPS)
Coaching Support
Coaching Safety
- Safety Guidelines for coaching activities in Orienteering
- Safety Guidelines table of 'area types'
- Risk Assessment Form
- Accident Report Form for Coaches
- Medical Data and Parental Consent Form for under 18s
- Criminal Records Bureau disclosure for Scotland
- Criminal Records Bureau disclosure for England and Wales
- O-Safe Protection Policy and Procedures for safeguarding Children and Vulnerable adults
Coaching Logbook
- Contents
- Step System
- Course Planning
- Session Planner Example
- Session Planner
- Medical Data and Parental Consent Form for under 18s
- Safety Guidelines
- Accident Report Form
- Personal Details
- Course Attendance
- Experience Summary
- Experience Summary continued.
General Coaching Information
- Coaching qualifications, skills and area progression summary (Hilary Palmer)
- British Orienteering Step System of learning Orienteering skills
- Advice on how to plan easy Orienteering courses
- Technical Difficulty 1 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 2 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 3 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 4 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 5 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Advice for those debriefing athletes after a race or coaching session
- Advice to coaches shadowing juniors around technical courses (Keith Marsden)
- Ideas for indoor Orienteering training exercises
- OCAD advice for Coaches (Oli Johnson)
Newsletters
Coaching Conference 2011 presentations
- UKCC L1 cards practical activity (please note file is 4 mb)
- Continuing Personal Development
- Mentoring
- Challenges facing coaching
- Orienteering in Sweden (please note file is 5 mb)
- Sports Psychology
- Coaching 3-5 year plan
Event Officials Handbook
Rules and Regulations
Land Access
- Guide to land access and permissions
- Sample letter to residents
- Sample confirmation of permission for landowners
- Sample notice for local notice boards
- Appendix F - Environmental guidance & good practice
- Environmental contacts
- Environmental checklist
- Appendix O and Embargoed areas listed on the website
- Rule 14 IOF embargoes.
Mapping and Planning
- Map Clarity guidance
- Advice on the procurement of Orienteering maps
- Appendix H
- British Orienteering Map Adviser scheme
- Approved printers
- Approved mapper list - TBA
- Appendix B course planning
- Appendix F Environmental good practice – see Land Access section for further details.
- Event Guideline B Long distance cross events
- Event Guideline C Middle distance events
- Event Guideline D Sprint events
- Event Guideline F Relay events
- Graham Nilsen's Course Planning Guide (First published in 1995 and updated in 2006)
- Advice on planning white courses - Thanks to Barry Elkington
- Advice on planning yellow courses - Thanks to Barry Elkington
- Advice on planning orange courses - Thanks to Barry Elkington
- Advice on planning light green courses - Thanks to Barry Elkington
- Advice on planning green-black courses - Thanks to Barry Elkington
- What's different about Sprint? - PDF FILE - Thanks to David May
- What's different about Sprint? - PPT FILE -Thanks to David May
- Middle race planning - TBA
- IOF Control descriptions 2004
- Technical Difficulty 1 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 2 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 3 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 4 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 5 Summary (Carol McNeil)
Budget and Finances
- Partnership Agreement
- British Championships sample budget
- British Middle and Sprint championships sample budget
- JK (Multi day) sample event budget
- Trader prices, booking form and sample trader contract
- Major Event finances
Safety
- Appendix E Safety
- Risk Assessment and Risk Management guide
- Risk Log sample
- British Orienteering Risk assessment form
- Certificate of British Orienteering Public Liability Insurance
- FAQs insurance
- Participation record sheet
- Accident Report Form
- Emergency response plan (TBC)
- JK2010 safety documents – thanks to Katy Dyer. (Fire Guidance, Fire Assessment, Risk Assessment, Safety, Rescue Plan, Missing Runner, Child Handover)
- Electrical safety
- O Safe Policy
- First Aid brief & sample letter
- First Aid Advice
- Sample First Aid contract (TBC)
- Missing Competitor Proceedure
- Search and rescue plan (thanks to Gill Clerici)
- Oban 2011 rescue plan
Admin
- Event Co-ordinator action plan templates – single day, weekend, multi day.
- Entries system requirements
- Results system requirements
- Programme headings
- Start time allocation
- Juries, a guide
- Initial publicity and entries
- Entries policy
- Standard entry form
- BOC 2011 planner
Volunteer Roles
Event Officials and staffing of Orienteering events
Volunteer Role descriptions
- Event Co-ordinator
- Controller (Currently being updated)
- Race day organiser
- Race day planner
- Car park team leader
- Start team leader
- 2011 Arena Manager
- 2011 Finish & Changeover team leader
- Safety Officer
- Prize Giving team leader
- Equipment Officer
- 2011 String course team leader
- 2011 Registration/Enquiries Team leader
- Entries Secretary
Plus other role descriptions used at BOC 2011 for:
Systems
- Event systems – a guide to traffic, signposting, car parking, registrations & enquiries, entry on the day, start.
- Tips for Controllers - Sport Ident
- Tips for Controllers - Emit punching
- First Aid Advice
- Electrical safety
- Fire Guidance, Fire Assessment
- PA & Commentary (Currently being updated)
- A guide to event equipment & transport (Currently being updated)
- Event Set up - a guide to arena layout & facilities, traders, toilets, download & results processing, results display, Finish run in.
- Relay layout and changeover procedures
Publicity
- TBC
Checklists
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Mapper's Supporting Information
Full details of the latest OCAD symbol set updates with advice about the colour table are available here.
- To convert a map to the latest British Orienteering symbols using OCAD10
- To convert a map to the latest British Orienteering symbols using OCAD9
- To convert a map to the latest British Orienteering symbols using OCAD8
Download OCAD Symbol Sets
OCAD Symbol sets - These compressed files contain Normal (ISOM 2000), Sprint (ISSOM 2007) and Course setting symbols for specific OCAD versions:
School Map Symbols:
- OCAD 9 Symbol set for map scales 1:2500 - 1:4000
- OCAD 8 Symbol set for map scales 1:2500 - 1:4000
- OCAD 7 Symbol set for map scales 1:2500 - 1:4000
- OCAD 6 Symbol set for map scales 1:2500 - 1:4000
- OCAD 9 Symbol set for map scales 1:250 - 1:2500
- OCAD 8 Symbol set for map scales 1:250 - 1:2500
- OCAD 7 Symbol set for map scales 1:250 - 1:2500
- OCAD 6 Symbol set for map scales 1:250 - 1:2500
Printing of Maps
IOF Printer Test Resources:
- IOF LaserPrintTech test sheet – Instructions
- IOF LaserPrintTech test sheet – OCAD 10
- Colour swatch printer setup file OCAD 10
- IOF LaserPrintTech test sheet – OCAD 9
- Colour swatch printer setup file OCAD 9
- IOF LaserPrintTech test sheet – OCAD 8
- Colour swatch printer setup file OCAD 8
- IOF printer test
- IOF printer test page - Colours
- IOF printer test page – Line Quality
Mapping Support:
- ISOM 2000
- International Specification for MTBO Maps
- International Specification for Ski Orienteering Maps
- ISSOM 2007 International Specification for Sprint Maps
- British Orienteering-A guide to good looking maps (Thanks to Brian Mee)
- Professional Mappers
- Check list for controlling the map making of major IOF events (via IOF Website)
- Defective Colour Vision Explanation
- Control Descriptions
- Map Clarity
- Geo-referencing Orienteering Maps
Volunteer Awards
- Young Volunteer Award Nomination Forms
- Services to Orienteering Nomination Form
- SILVA Award nomination form
Volunteer Support
- Runningsport Instant Information Guide
- Runningsport Volunteer Role Descriptions
- Runningsport - Rewarding Volunteers