8-670: The English Orienteering Council has sole responsibility for the English teams. The 9 English regions of the British Orienteering Federation (BOF) are Members of English Orienteering Council (EOC). Its voting members are representatives of each of the nine English regions of the BOF. The Council meets each year at the Jan Kjellström International Orienteering Festival to make policy decisions. EOC
16-482: A major orienteering event. This article about an organisation in England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This orienteering article about an organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . British Orienteering Federation The British Orienteering Federation Limited , generally known and branded as British Orienteering , is the national sports governing body for
24-479: A road accident early in the year of 1967. 1967 saw the first Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering or "JK", held in memory of Kjellström. Later that year the British Orienteering Federation was formed by the amalgamation of the English and Scottish Associations leading to the first British Orienteering Championships held at Hamsterley Forest . With the growth of the sport BOF
32-418: Is not a National Association or Governing Body, this is different from the other Home Countries. EOC receives no funding from Sport England or from BOF. More than 60% of the funds for EOC come from the personal contributions of athletes and less than a third comes from the English regional Orienteering Associations. Some further funds come from personal or group fund-raising projects or from a fund surplus after
40-564: The English regions; and the British Schools Orienteering Association. The nine English regions are also Members of the English Orienteering Council (EOC). The associations are: Funding is principally from three sources: Former grant funding from UK Sport has ceased, in common with many other non-Olympic sports. The British Orienteering Federation is governed by a board of directors, and through
48-692: The sport of orienteering in the United Kingdom. The federation was founded in June 1967, and is a member of the IOF . Orienteering was introduced to the UK in the 1950s and was heavily supported by renowned Olympians including John Disley and Chris Brasher . The early years were helped by orienteers from Sweden : in 1962 Baron 'Rak' Largerfelt of the Stockholm Orienteering Club came to Scotland to help develop
56-562: The sport. This culminated in the first championship being held in May 1962 at Dunkeld, and the formation of the Scottish Orienteering Association . Later visitors from Sweden included Jan Kjellström , a son of Silva compass founder Alvar Kjellström . Kjellström played an important role in the development of the sport and helped to accelerate developments in orienteering competition, mapping and coaching. Kjellström died in
64-560: Was founded in 1967, and continued to develop. There were 12 national and regional associations by 1972; the British Schools Orienteering Association joining in 1995 when it was formed to promote orienteering in schools. The Federation's membership had reached around 10,000 by 1998 and the club membership had increased to more 150 clubs. The federation is made up of thirteen constituent associations, one each for Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland ; nine for
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