General news
Croeso 2020 - Welsh 6 Days preliminary details available here
Report from latest committee meeting (3 Oct) now available- here
Latest monthly newsletter from the SW Orienteering Association- here
New training website (as featured in CompassSport magazine, June 2019): Better Orienteering - here
The health benefits of 'green exercise'- survey
Orienteering and wellbeing
In the same week when British Orienteering announced their support for World Mental Health Day (of 10 October), a PhD student wrote to QO to invite members' participation in a related survey.
Claire Wicks of the University of Essex is conducting a survey on the mental health benefits of the sport. If you would like to participate in the survey, please see the following link.
Coaching
Devon OC have announced a series of Saturday coaching sessions running from Haldon Forest Park near Exeter- those keen enough might be able to squeeze in a session before JOG!