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🌲 Ready for an autumn adventure? Planner Geoffrey Collins has ventured deep into Hillsborough Forest (and made it back!) to bring you an exciting challenge for all abilities. 🟡🟠 Yellow and Orange courses — perfect for beginners.🟢🔵 Green and Blue courses — for the more adventurous and experienced orienteers! 📅 Date: Saturday 7 November⏰ Start times: 11:30am–1:30pm📍 Location: Hillsborough Forest 🔎 Full event details: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/lvo-autumn-trophy-26/📝 Enter now: https://www.sientries.co.uk/event/lvo-autumn-trophy-hillsborough-2026?elid=Y ⏳ Entries close at midnight on Sunday 1 November, so don’t miss your chance! 🧭🍁 #Orienteering #LVOTrophy #AutumnTrophy #HillsboroughForest 

As many of you will know, over the past few years I have been running a Schools Orienteering Competition in Gosford Forest for students undertaking Orienteering as part of their GCSE PE.This event, and now Ric’s one in Coleraine are the only events put on specifically for Schools in NI where the correct standards for Assessment are guaranteed because its us as NI Orienteering, and at the same time we try to provide that link between Schools and Clubs that often appears to be missing.This year’s event in Gosford takes place on Thursday 5th November, but to make it happen Read More …

⏳ Final call for entries for the next NI Colour Series, with a new extended start time of 2pm – Entries close at midnight this Sunday 18 October, so don’t miss out! 🏃‍♀️ 📅 Date: Sunday 25 October⏰ Start times: 11:30am–2:00pm📍 Location: Craigavon Lakes 🔎 Full event details: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/ni-colour-series-6-26/ 📝 Enter now: https://www.sientries.co.uk/event/nics6-craigavon-urban-2026?elid=Y

Congratulations to Jack, James, Ewan and Emily, who were selected to represent Team Ireland at the Junior Home International (JHI) last weekend in Scotland! 👏 They all put in brilliant performances, helping Ireland win the Judith Wingham Trophy in the Ireland v Wales competition. Well done to all four on a fantastic achievement! 📊 Full results can be found here on Forth Valley Orienteers page: https://www.fvo.org.uk/results

🌃The WENT series (Wednesday Evening Night Training) is coming to a street or park near you! 📆 Starting on Wed 28 October, over the next couple of months, LVO will be delivering 7️⃣training sessions plus 1️⃣ Night Championship. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Everyone welcome! There will be activities for all levels, so whether you are a novice navigator or an experienced orienteer you will have the chance to practice your night nav in a fun and social environment. 🏃‍♀️‍➡️Run or walk as a pair, group or individual – whatever you are comfortable with. 💰Members free, £5 for non members. Includes map and dibber. Read More …

Great turnout today for the first of our six Squad Skills sessions for TD3 and above juniors! 🧭 With the control stakes still out following last week’s NI Champs, the juniors had the chance to revisit courses or legs they wanted to improve, try different route choices, or test out alternative plans. A great session of learning, practice and problem-solving! 👏 A big thank you to Fionne for organising and to the Orienteering Foundation for supporting! 🙌

👀 Planner Philip Baxter brings us an urban extravaganza for the next NI Colour Series event! 🔥 📅 Date: Sunday 25 October ⏰ Start times: 11:30am–1:00pm 📍 Location: Craigavon Lakes With 7 different courses to choose from, there’s something for everyone, from the 2.8km Yellow course right up to the challenging 11.5km Brown, with map exchanges for the top 3 courses! 💪 🔎 Full event details: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/ni-colour-series-6-26/ 📝 Enter now: https://www.sientries.co.uk/event/nics6-craigavon-urban-2026?elid=Y ⏳ Entries close at midnight on Sunday 18 October, so don’t leave it too late!

It was LVO’s turn to host the Senior Home International (SHI) this year, the annual orienteering competition between representative teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Meelmore Mountain was chosen as the venue for the individual race on Saturday, with Slievenagore Mountain providing the setting for Sunday’s relays. With each team comprising 3 M20s, 3 W20s, 6 senior men (including at least one M35+) and 6 senior women (including at least one W35+), competitors could expect courses to be testing and of the highest standard. Meelmore’s M21E course measured 14.7 km with 610 m of climb, while the W21E course Read More …

🧭🎉 What a fantastic day of orienteering on Saturday as LVO members took on the challenging Mourne slopes of Meelmore and Luke’s Mountain at the 2026 Northern Ireland Long Distance Orienteering Champions! ⛰️ A big shout-out to guest planner Shane Lynch for providing some seriously testing courses, expertly overseen by controller Ivan Millar, with Chris Colwell as organiser and supported by a fantastic team of helpers. 👏🙌 🎉 Congratulations to our 25 new NI Orienteering Champions! 🎉 🥇 W10 – Charlotte Kerr 🥇 M12 – Dylan Kennedy 🥇 W12 – Sophie Kerr 🥇 M14 – Nat Kerr 🥇 W14 – Read More …

⏳ Sign-up closes Tuesday 6 October at midnight for our October Club Meet in Lisburn, for some proper urban and sprint training, courtesy of Olivia Baxter. 🗓 Saturday 10 October⏰ 10am–2pm💰Free for members of LVO / NIOA / Orienteering Ireland Clubs. 👉 Don’t miss it — get signed up now: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/iUpumP9saf Full details here: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-meet-oct-26/