Go Orienteering

All the orienteering opportunities in the area, including competitive Events and Virtual and courses that are available anytime.

HAVOC events

Date Event name (select to view) Near Level/Type
Sun 2 Nov HAVOC Regional and SWELL - Dagnam Park Harold Wood Regional
Wed 5 Nov Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 No.2 - Rayleigh Rayleigh Local, Night, Score
Wed 3 Dec Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 No.4 - Billericay Billericay Local, Night, Score
Wed 7 Jan Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 No.6 - Pitsea Pitsea Local, Night, Score
Sun 11 Jan HAVOC Regional and SWELL - Langdon Hills Basildon Regional
Wed 4 Feb Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 No.8 - Basildon Basildon Local, Night, Score
Wed 4 Mar Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 No.10 - Upminster Upminster Local, Night, Score
Sun 8 Mar HAVOC EAL,Regional and SWELL, Yvette Baker Trophy heat - Weald Country Park Brentwood Regional
Explanation of Event levels

Major events are Major Events such as a British Championships, National events are high quality competitions that will attract people from far away, Regional events attract participants from around the local Region, Local are usually low key events in a 'localised' area. Local events are ideal for newcomers to try the sport and Activities are non competitive events used for training and coaching. Aimed at members of the host club, but they can attract people from neighbouring clubs. Often ideal for newcomers to try the sport.

Club & Regional league info

For the latest country-wide fixtures list see the British Orienteering website

Forthcoming fixtures can also be viewed via Ollie O'Brien's UK Orienteering Fixtures Map (here centred on CM14, Brentwood).


Virtual Orienteering

Use the GPS in your smartphone (or watch) to take part in “Virtual” orienteering at a time convenient for yourself. With the MapRun app you can run a course using either the map on your phone screen or a paper version, and your phone will beep when you reach the correct location of each... 

Read more about MapRun Courses…


Neighbouring clubs events

Chigwell & Epping Forest Orienteering Club (CHIG) website

Dartford Orienteering Klubb (DFOK) website

Essex Stragglers Orienteering Society (SOS) website

Links below will open the event details on the British Orienteering website in a new tab or window. The data is a live feed from that website.

Date Event name (select to view) Near Club Type
Thu 6 Nov DFOK KNC3 - High Chart and Limpsfield Chart High Chart and Limpsfield Chart DFOK Local
Sat 15 Nov DFOK KOL - Shoreham Woods Sevenoaks DFOK Local
Wed 19 Nov Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 - Witham - Witham Witham SOS Local
Sun 7 Dec Highwoods - SOS Colour Coded - Note new date! - Highwoods Country Park Colchester SOS Regional
Tue 9 Dec DFOK Street O - Stratford Stratford DFOK Local
Sat 13 Dec DFOK KOL - Beacon Wood Dartford DFOK Local
Wed 17 Dec Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 - Shrub End - Shrub End Colchester SOS Local
Thu 1 Jan SOS New Year Novelty - Colchester SOS Local
Sun 4 Jan CHIG Mitre (SE League and SWELL) - Epping N Theydon Bois CHIG Regional
Sun 18 Jan DFOK SE League event - South Ashdown Forest Row DFOK National
Wed 21 Jan Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 - Chelmsford - Chelmsford Chelmsford SOS Local
Sat 31 Jan DFOK KOL - Joydens Wood Bexley DFOK Regional
Wed 18 Feb Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 - Chelmer Village - Chelmer Village Chelmsford SOS Local
Wed 18 Feb Essex Winter Midweek Series 2025/26 - Chelmer Village (copy) - Chelmer Village Chelmsford SOS Local
Sun 1 Mar SOS Colour Coded - Colchester SOS Regional
Sat 21 Mar DFOK KOL - Cobham Great Wood Gravesend DFOK Local
Sat 28 Mar CHIG London ( Beckton) UK urban league - Beckton London CHIG Regional
Sun 29 Mar DFOK Urban - Canning Town London DFOK Regional
Sun 12 Apr (Cancelled) Regional and SWELL event - Warlies Park Waltham Abbey CHIG Local
Sun 10 May Chelmsford Urban EA League - Chelmsford Chelmsford SOS Regional