Welcome West Cumberland Orienteering Club is based in the Western half of the English Lake District with a large membership spread over the main centres of population; from Silloth in the North to Gosforth in the South; with members well represented in Cockermouth, Keswick, Workington, Aspatria, Cleator Moor, Egremont, Whitehaven, St.Bees and a lot of the rural area as well! We host events on a weekly basis from informal Thursday nights to district or regional events held at weekends. Everyone is welcome to try the sport. For more information see our introduction to the sport 'What is Orienteering'. There are a number of organisations that WCOC have been pleased to support with donations over the years. Click here to see the list. If you would like details on how to join WCOC, or renew membership, click here.

"The club has embraced the ethos of working towards Clubmark as part of their development to bring the sport to more people and to provide an excellent coaching and competition programme." Hilary Palmer, British Orienteering Read all about Clubmark on the clubmark website www.clubmark.org.uk

News 24/08/08 Notice: There will be a coaching session on Saturday 6th September at Leaps, near Kirkland (Parking on the roadside GR 085 184). NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE. The session starts at 10:30 and is aimed at our older juniors and beginner adults. Finish time should be between 12 and 12.30. We need a minimum of 12, so can those who are interested contact Natalie Burns (see contact page for details) as soon as possible. 21/08/08 Good luck to the Brand-Barker family who are off to Northern Poland, to take part in the World Mountain Bike Championships August 23-29, representing Great Britain. The event is being held at Stare Jablonki, and will include sprint, middle, long and relay disciplines. Chris will race as a junior, Tony as an M50 veteran, and Angela in the open ladies category. Chris will have to return from the NWJS Norwegian trip first!! 14/08/08 West Cumberland once again win the Golden Gauntlet! The annual match took place at the Summer Evening event on Latterbarrow last night in near perfect conditions. Pete and Barbara Nelson's courses provided fast running (and slow stream crossings) on a newly mapped area. A different format for calculating the winners of the annual challenge match was tried again, in an attempt to take fair account of the uneven numbers of runners from both clubs. Unfortunatley, a few mispunches from Borderliners made it difficult to match WCOC's scores. Perhaps a more central venue will attract more evenly matched teams next year! 31/07/08 Congratulations to Mhairi Mackenzie who finished a fantastic 4th (1st Brit) in the World University Orienteering Championships long distance race in Estonia. By all accounts, the race was long and tough with many marshes and thick forests that were difficuilt to avoid. It was also very warm which proved to be a real test of physical and mental endurance. Mhairi was only a few seconds down from a medal position! 17/07/08 Families led the way in this years Parish Relays. Congratulations to Angela, Tony and Chris Brand-Barker who won easily and so plan next years event. Second home were Debbie, Charlotte and Graham Watson. Unfortunately Rosie was unwell, so didn't get to run. Closely behind Charlotte finished Bobby Hagan, completing the third place run with Louise and Ged. The junior event was won hands down by the odds-on favourites, the Hemingways. Well done to Katrina, Christopher and Graham. Well done and thanks to Alan Irving who was left to plan the event on his own as the rest of last years winning team now reside in the Southern hemisphere! (A long way to go to avoid planning a relay!). Thanks again also to Roger, for the maps. See the gallery for photos of the event. 14/07/08 Congratulations to Charlotte and Rosie Watson who have been chosen to represent England (again) for the Junior Home Internationals which will be held in September. At this rate, they'll get more caps than David Beckham! Well done girls. 28/06/08 West Cumberland Orienteering Club today launched it’s new look website, which should help make the club’s information easier to access. It was felt that the layout and style of the old webpage could be improved as new technology becomes available. The colour scheme has been brought up to date with the club's team identity and new ideas such as the gallery and archive should make for more interesting browsing by members and visitors alike. Hopefully the majority of the website should be easily maintainable as much of the information is linked from the many other sites around the region. As the new website becomes established, members are asked to let Bobby Hagan (WebMaster) know if they have any other suggestions for improvements. 30/06/08 The ladies continue to show the way! Congratulations to Margaret MacKenzie who has recently completed the Bob Graham Round, hot on the heels of Kate Charles who completed in May. Both finished with time to spare! Well done, both. Men - the gauntlet has been thrown... 21/03/08 Congratulations to Charlotte Watson who won the W16A class at the JK. Also congratulations to the Intermediate Mens 48- relay team (Lewis Taylor, Graham Hemingway and Charlotte Watson) who came 3rd out of 37 teams