Orienteering
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Description
This activity involves using map and compass
skills to navigate from point to point, usually across unfamiliar
terrain.
Forms
If out of the regular meeting times or place, an Information and Consent
for Event/Activity form is required to
participate in this activity.
Who can
participate?
Open to all.
Ratio of adults to
girls
Normal ratios for activities away from the
meeting place are required. Guiding
Manual ratios.
Regulations
- The Leader must ensure that all participants
under the age of 18 have written permission to take part from an
adult with parental responsibility.
- The local Commissioner must be informed that
the activity is taking place.
- Carry out a risk
assessment for the activity.
Instructor
qualifications
The activity instructor should have a
competent understanding of orienteering that is relevant to the age
and abilities of the participants, and the terrain being
navigated.
Useful
information
The activity instructor should fully check the
course in advance and brief group leaders regarding hazards,
boundaries and accident procedures.
On easy or familiar terrain (eg the local
park) there should be one instructor for every 20 participants.
On more difficult or unfamiliar terrain there
should be one instructor for every ten participants.
Girlguiding UK Activity
Centres
Try this activity
at:
Blackland
Farm (Sussex), Broneirion
(Powys), Foxlease (Hampshire),
Hautbois (Norfolk),
Lorne (Belfast)
or Waddow (Lancashire).
Useful websites
British Orienteering –
www.britishorienteering.org.uk
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Page last updated:
5/17/2012