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The Hill End Outdoor Education Centre is a beautiful and special place that has been a part of childhood for generations of Oxfordshire children who visit for day trips and residentials. Run by local authorities for decades, Hill End is now a charitable trust determined to offer the best possible experience to the thousands of people who visit every year, and ensure the outdoor education they enjoy is of the very highest quality.

Today, Friday 8 March marks International Women's Day 2024! This year's theme invites us to celebrate and #InspireInclusion. In honour of the Day, we reached out to some of our female orienteers to find out more about what inspired them to start orienteering, what advice they would give to girls and women considering starting out in the sport, and what motivates them to continue their journey. Here is what they told us.

Sean Harrington was the organiser of this years East Midlands Championships at Chambers Wood that was hosted by Lincoln Orienteering Group. Here he gives his insight into his planning and coordination of the event.

Ranald Macdonald explains how working together with BOF's Access and Environment Officer Emma Monkham, alongside other key local stakeholders, they managed to negotiate back access to the terrain; proof indeed that patience, persistence and politeness are key in negotiating access!

This Talent camp brought together all three squads (North, South & Scotland) – some 60 juniors – for race simulation training and took place from the 14–18 February. In this blog, Richard Tiley gives an overview of what the camp entailed.

This year marks the 50th British Relay Championships - for most classes, that is – but not all! British Orienteering’s historian Clive Allen – with Simon Errington’s help on statistics – takes us through some of the history of the event, and how it has evolved over the past 50 years since it’s inception. All extracts of The Orienteer are copyright of CompassSport Magazine and reproduced here with kind permission.

The road to WOC 2024 is truly underway! On 26-28 January 2024, Edinburgh University Orienteering Club held the first of 2024s major events in the lead up to the international event being held in Scotland in July. Here, organiser of the Big Weekend, EUOC member and Development Squad athlete Jim Bailey provides an insight to what unfolded in the lead up and during the event.

In 2022 Sport Wales approached Swansea Bay Orienteering Club to make a short video featuring Orienteering as part of a series highlighting non-mainstream sports. Kerina Lake explains how this lead to the club securing a feature on prime time TV.

Deeside Orienteering Club delivered a brilliant Find Your Way Project activity over the Christmas holidays to families and young people in Cheshire.

Martin Ward, British Orienteering UK Orienteering League Co-ordinator shares the results from 2023 and provides an overview of what we can expect in 2024.