Start your own University Club
Are you thinking of starting up your own Orienteering club at your university? Check out the resources available to you!
Starting an Orienteering university club is a great opportunity to learn new skills, boost your employability and orienteer the way you want to orienteer!
There are plenty of challenges and delights with creating your own club and British Orienteering has provided materials to help you.
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How to set up your own club
Founder of the Exeter University orienteering club, Georgia Jones, has written a how-to document to help you with the first steps of setting up a club. The document details everything from how to gain traction to logistics and resources available to you. It also contains examples of committee role descriptions, risk assessments, club constitution, a successful university affiliation form and successful grant application to the Orienteering Foundation.
Affiliation
Universities affiliate their orienteering clubs with British Orienteering so that their runners can run for the university at regional and national events. Other benefits include eligibility to win awards and being able to run your own events under British Orienteering insurance.
To affiliate with British Orienteering, you will need the following documents:
- The Club's membership fees
- A list of Club Officials who are British Orienteering members
- There must be at least four (President, treasurer, secretary, safeguarding/welfareofficer).*The safeguarding officer can be the same person in one of the other roles.
- Each club official must have a different email address
- A copy of the Club's Constitution
- A copy of the latest AGM minutes
- Payment of £25 affiliation fee
- A signed copy of British Orienteering's Club Code of Conduct
- A contact email address for your club support officer or sport department / student union
If you require any further information or support with setting up your club, please do not hesistate to contact British Orienteering's University & Access Officer Gracie Grant, at ggrant@britishorienteering.org.uk.