Category - Member news

We’re through to the Final!

The 2026 CompassSport Cup Heat in Sutton Park The CompassSport Cup is the only inter-club competition in UK orienteering, and takes place annually. The regional heats are in early spring, with the Final normally in...

Captain’s capers!

Our Club Captain Sally Calland tells of her winter orienteering adventures I have been lucky enough to venture to Madeira, Portugal and Spain over the cold UK winter months and managed to squeeze in some orienteering...

Portugal O Meeting 2026

Sal Chaffey in praise of Portugal! POM, as it is known, is a 5-day event that finishes on Shrove Tuesday – a day of national celebration in Portugal. Dave and I have been three times now: the first by train in 2020...

What shape is your parkrun?

Parkrun has been a phenomenon for some 20 years now, and every Saturday morning when I scroll Strava, I see where fellow DVO members have been running. Will it be Australia (Markeaton) or the girl with the long hair...

Review of DVO’s 2025 events

Dave Nevell – our statistician, now based in north Wales – looks back on last year’s events 2025 saw the DVO fixture list settling into what is perhaps a new paradigm for orienteering, namely a small number of...

Alison Uttley and Bow Woods

Sal Chaffey looks at the Derbyshire author’s roots Bow Woods and Lea Woods have been used on and off for orienteering events between 1970 and 2012 (photos from 2012 here), and many of us visit in April to check...

2025 East Midlands League Successes!

DVO has 15 top 3 places in the EM terrain league Yesterday was the first event of the 2026 East Midlands League at LEI’s Grace Dieu & Cademan event, and therefore the certificate presentation for 2025’s...

January 2026 Club News

  A happy and injury-free 2026 to you all! The prize giving for 2025 East Midlands Urban League took place before the Matlock Urban Race, which opened the 2026 League. Your best 4 races out of 8 count, so get those...