Category - Member news

Terry Peach

A celebration of Terry’s Life. A Service to celebrate Terrys life will be held at the Trent Valley Crematorium DE72 2AF at 11.30 on Wednesday 22nd October. More details can be found on – Derby Telegraph...

EMOA Officials Development Conference 2025

EMOA Chair Ann-Marie Duckworth reports on this year’s Development Conference John Hurley (coordinator for day and EM Development Officer) summarised the day by saying that the Development Conference, held at...

Club News September 2025

DVO hosted the Midlands Championships took place on 7th September at Chinley Churn. Well done to Organiser and Planner Nicky Hart and Richard Parkin, and to all the DVO helpers, from stile putters-out to Results. Peter...

Notice of our 2025 AGM

Our Annual General Meeting will take place at Lime Tree Business Park, Lime Tree Road, Matlock on Wednesday October 15th at 7:30pm. In addition to the business part of the meeting (including discussions about entry fees...

A Super Club Day at the Seaside

Christine Middleton and Sal Chaffey report on the CompassSport Cup Final The CompassSport Cup is an annual inter-club competition, with heats in early spring and a Final in the autumn. DVO qualified for the Final at our...

What you see is what you get!

Derek Gale reflects on the White Rose (& a summary of DVO results) I believe there is an old adage that the South Sea islanders could not see Captain Cook’s ship as it was so large, compared to their experience...

Royal Deeside 2025

About 40 DVO members attended this year’s Scottish 6-days. Stuart Swalwell collected these anonymous accounts! Our 10th S6D, and our family voted it the best yet. Certainly, it wasn’t my best orienteering...

Meet Your New Registration Team Leaders!

Judith & Lester Evans joined DVO in 2022 when they moved from Harlequins OC territory. They’ve been very active in the Club, running the Map Reclaim at the JK 2024 Relays and recently negotiating and...