Recently we were contacted by Alternative Adventure who are running the 1st aid courses listed below. We would like to remind our members that we always need first aiders at the events we hold just in case of any issues that may arise.

If anybody is interested in attanding a First Aid course with Alternative Adventure or any other supplier then SELOC would be willing to make a contribution towards the cost of the course. Each application will be considered as an individual case based on the cost of the course and a contribution offer would be made to the applicant.

An opportunity for part-time, paid, orienteering-related work.

GMOA is looking for a group of people who will be able to develop and extend the work that the current post-watchers do. Post-watchers may be ideal candidates but this is a much wider brief.

We want to keep all our POCs up-to-date, usable and useful, and are trying to make the workload involved more manageable by getting more people involved.

The responsibilities will be:

• Carry out a comprehensive review of the courses planned in an area or group of areas on a yearly, or maybe two-yearly basis.
• Document each review using the attached template (GMOA_POC_Review_v1.6.doc). This shows all the different aspects of our systems that need to be kept up-to-date.
• Keep in contact with the local authority or group responsible for the upkeep of an area

Each review will require at least one site visit, and a number of phone calls and/or email contacts – some of these could cover multiple parks at the same time. For example, it would be possible for one individual to cover all parks in a Borough. Payment will be made for each park and will vary according to size and complexity.

Where a Review identifies issues, the Committee will decide how to sort them out – this role is about identifying issues not solving them.

We are keen to get this new approach started as soon as possible. Initial expressions of interest please, to Caroline Barcham ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by 24 Jan 2012.

SELOC Club Champions 2011, as announced at the SELOC Christmas lunch. The Championships were held at the EPOC Storthes Hall Wood event on the 23rd Oct 2011.      Photo of Mark Seddon - SELOC Men's Open Club Champion 2011.

 Stephen Richards receives the Allan Wilson Memorial Trophy for SELOC Volunteer Of The Year, at the prizegiving after the SELOC Christmas Lunch. Of the 10 nominees, Stephen came out top, in recognition of his contribution over the year, not only in organising and planning events in the Wigan side of our area but especially for the substantial effort in thoroughly updating a large part of the Clowbridge map including the fast maturing wooded areas.

Tuesday December 27th

Once again, there will be informal Christmas Fun Score event, this year at Alexandra Park, Oldham.

Alexandra Park is a well-renovated Victorian town park. The GMOA map is at a scale of 1:3000.

Assembly from 10:15 is on the South side of the park near a small car park on Kings Road at grid reference SD823279 (nearest postcode OL8 2BH is within the park)

Multiple starts from 10:30 to 10:45 and a maximum time limit of 40 minutes

The score format will be a combination of master controls with 'quiz-O' extensions for bonus control points; bring a pencil for your Street-O style answers

Participants take part at own risk and are responsible for their own safety; snow is possible but not guaranteed for a third year running!

Enquiries: Paul Turner

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To be followed by the SELOC Christmas meal on Broadway at the Boat & Horses- see separate details.

NGOC are again offering the orienteering board game "Forest Challenge" for sale.  All profits will be donated to the Woodland Trust, last years profits went to help flood victims in Pakistan.  For full details, follow the link on their website www.ngoc.org.uk