Charlotte, Ian and Denise regained the Sarum Trophy at this year’s Wessex Hardy Relays and earned the club another good report in The Salisbury Journal (23/07/2015), together with another of Shane Wilkinson’s fine photos. The report also covers the previous day’s results from the Marlborough urban race. All in all we have had excellent coverage…
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Sarum’s Club Championship event at Downton Moot made headlines in The Salisbury Journal. Shane Wilkinson’s great shot of Alex Buck leaving the Start headed a comprehensive account of the Moot event together with Sarum’s good results in the Moonraker and Furrow Hoppers Relays. It’s good to see orienteering reported alongside the more usual sports.
THE FOREST LEAGUE The Salisbury Schools Forest League is a success story that arose from Sarum’s longstanding Primary Schools outreach programme established by Pam Swienton and Liz Yeadon. Basic skills were taught in schools’ grounds using exercises such as Naughty Numbers, cones and simple relays. Subsequently schools were taken into local woods to learn to…
Chairman Ian Peirce made banner headlines with photo to match in The Salisbury Journal this week (go to http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/sport/13318846.Chairman_benefits_in_Lake_District/ for online report). It’s a long drive to the Lake District just for two races but for Sarum Orienteers’ Chairman Ian Peirce it was one well worth taking on. Competing in the two day Twin Peaks…
About 700 orienteers, including 13 from Sarum, travelled to the Welsh Marches for SINS 2015 for a challenging but friendly and low key three days over the May Bank Holiday. Shropshire is a delight, quiet, uncrowded with lots of attractive and interesting small towns and villages. May is a wonderful time to visit the heart…