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Orienteering is an outdoor activity that is suitable for people of all ages. As a group or a family or solo, it is a great way of exploring the Scottish countryside. Our Events, News, Membership, Clubs and What is Orienteering? pages provide you with everything you need to know. Contact us with any queries.

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Headtorches On: 2026/27 Night Orienteering

As the clocks go back and the dark evenings draw in, look out your headtorch as night orienteering season is upon us! Many of us orienteers embrace the darker evenings as the perfect opportunity to do some night orienteering. Night orienteering is a great way to improve your navigation skills and get out of the house on a mid-week evening. 

Credit: Nathan Phua

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29th October, 2026 Read more...

November Community Conversation focus on Coaching

Monday 2nd November sees the next of our Community Conversations taking place with a focus on Coaching. Our Coaching and Volunteer Officer, Judy Bell, will lead the session with the focus on providing coaches with the opportunity to share and discuss coaching ideas as well as discussing what opportunities coaches want to develop their capabilities.

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28th October, 2026 Read more...

Orienteering hits the Airwaves

As we were planning our series of Summer of Sport family friendly taster sessions we were delighted when the adverts caught the eye of Rachel Bell, a presenter on BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors program. Out of Doors is broadcast weekly covering features on Scotland’s countryside, nature, wildlife and outdoor activities.

Rachel Bell signed up to bring her family along to Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen to join in the fun and find out more about orienteering. Listen in to hear more about their adventures (the feature on orienteering starts 10 minutes in).

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21st October, 2026 Read more...

Scottish Success at the CompassSport Cup!

Forth Valley Orienteers and Interlopers travelled down to West Sussex to compete in the CompassSport Cup finals. The Interlopers team narrowly missed out on defending their 2025 CompassSport Trophy title as Borderliners scored just 11 points more to win. However, FVO were victorious in the CompassSport Cup competition as they beat rival team South Yorkshire for the first time in five years.

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20th October, 2026 Read more...

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🧭 Junior Inter Areas - Individuals 🧭

Congratulations to all the individual winners at the Junior Inter Areas today - all having a great time and helping to score points for their respective teams.
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🧭 Inter Areas Day 2🧭

The battle between the juniors from North, East and West areas continued today with the Individual Races at John Muir Country Park in Dunbar. It was a very closely fought battle with only a single point separating the top 2 teams. North however took the victory in the Individuals with East in 2nd place and West in 3rd. Congratulations to North who also lifted the overall trophy. Huge thanks to ELO for arranging the individual races today and to Oleg and Fran who arranged the whole weekend.

📸J Ellis, D Robertson and Judy
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🧭 Interareas Day 1 🧭

The Interarea Weekend kicked off at Vogrie with the relays. After day 1 the North Area are in the lead. Let's see what happens tomorrow at John Muir Country Park with the individuals!

Well done to all the juniors who took part and thankyou to the volunteers.
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Headtorches on, the 2026/27 night orienteering season is beginning!

Although most people don't enjoy the dark evenings, many of us orienteers embrace them as the perfect opportunity to do some night orienteering. As usual there are lots of night events across the Winter and the Scottish Night Championships will be taking place in Aberfoyle January 2027.

www.scottish-orienteering.org/news/headtorches-on-2026-27-night-orienteering/

Photo Credit: Colin Matheson and Nathan Phua
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This weekend is looking busy! The Junior Inter Areas are highly anticipated, the elite and development squad look forward to their first trip of the season, and newcomers will be welcomed to Kings Park in Stirling to Try O. Have fun everyone!

Photos: Rob Lines, FVO
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