South
Yorkshire Orienteers can boast over 200 members with an age range
of 5-75 years.
The club finished 3rd in the British Orienteering Club
of the Year competition for 2006. There is a wide range of ability
within the club including 2003 World Sprint Orienteering Champion
and 2006 World Middle Championship Bronze Medallist Jamie Stevenson
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 British
team coaches Dave and Jenny Peel are also members of the club as
are top British Elite runners Rob Baker, Nick Barrable, Oli Johnson,
Neil Northrop, Jo Stevenson, Jenny Johnson and Helen Winskill. The
Regional Development Officer for Yorkshire is SYO member Colin Best.
 
The
club provides regular events in the South Yorkshire region as well
as training session often tied in with the University orienteering
club ShUOC. New
members are always welcome and enquiries should be addressed to Jill
Gorvett, SYO Membership Secretary. Please feel free to come
along and give orienteering a go at one of our events, training
sessions or club nights (see fixtures page) before joining up.
Many
SYO members also train, and race, with local running clubs namely Dark Peak Fell Runners and Hallamshire Harriers.
South Yorkshire Orienteers has members from under 10 years old to
over 70. We seek to make their
orienteering  enjoyable and safe. The club achieved Clubmark status in 2007.
For the
benefit of all our members we work within the Health
and Safety guidelines laid down by British Orienteering.
We take
our duty of care seriously and seek to ensure that children andvulnerable adults have fun, learn and develop and to help us in
this aim we have adopted and promote The British Orienteering policy
on Protecting Young and Vulnerable People. We have codes
of conduct for Officials and Volunteers, Parents and juniors.
We have a Lead Junior Coach who sits on the management committee,
as does the Junior Co-ordinator. We also have a Junior Team manager.
We wish
to be an inclusive club and seek to make sure that orienteering
is an activity open to anyone who wishes to take part in whatever
role. We support British Orienteering's Equality
and Inclusion policy.
Please feel free to contact any of us if you have a query.
| Chairman |
Melinda
Riley |
| Secretary |
Lesley Ward |
| Treasurer |
Mike Sprot |
| Development
Officer |
Colin
Best |
| Membership |
Jill
Gorvett |
| Newsletter
Editor |
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| Publicity |
Jenny
Johnson |
| Website |
Oli
Johnson
Chris Littler |
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If you would like any further information about orienteering in
South Yorkshire or about SYO membership please fill in the form
below. You will be sent membership information within a few
days.
Alternatively take advantage of this current offer from British Orienteering:
If you’ve not been a member of British Orienteering for the last three years, join SYO through the British Orienteering website now and get your first year as a Local Member of British Orienteering FREE.
Your membership will run to the end of December 2009 and gives a £2 discount on adult entry fees to larger orienteering events (District, Regional or National) in the Yorkshire & Humberside region. All this for only £1 Junior, £8 Senior or £10 Family membership of SYO.
Click here and select SYO as your club to join us now.
Note that to get discounted entry fees in other regions & to be able to run in the British Champs you’d need to join as a National Member. Perhaps for 2010…………??!
Read more about membership benefits
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