Welcome to the website of the East Anglian Orienteering Association (EAOA). If you are new to the sport, please take a look at our Introduction.

We act on behalf of the orienteering clubs in our region, in particular by:

• Operating a regional Junior Squad, to provide training and development for younger orienteers from clubs across the region.
• Organising Leagues and Championships for individual club members and clubs as a whole.
• Laying on orienteering events which require the resources of more than just one club.
• Appointing event controllers, who ensure that courses are well planned and safe, and that competitions are fair.
• Coordinating fixtures across and beyond the region, to avoid event date clashes.

Association officials are orienteers who are members of constituent clubs.

If you want a national perspective on the sport, try visiting the British Orienteering website for the official view, or nopesport for a less formal look at orienteering and some lively discussion forums.

Recent news items

• Amended rules for the EA League, Urban League, and EAOA Championships have been updated. New versions can be found on our Resources page.
• Hebe Darwin was one of 19 juniors selected for a weeklong training camp in the Jizera Mountains in Czechia. Read Hebe's report.

EAOA Annual General Meeting 2024

The minutes of this year's AGM can be found on our Resources page.

The Region

Our clubs

In orienteering terms, East Anglia comprises the whole of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, northern Buckinghamshire, southern Northamptonshire and most of Essex.

There are six open clubs (which anyone can join) in the region, as well as five closed clubs (whose membership is drawn from particular institutions). The approximate locations of the open clubs are shown on the map. Find out more about affiliated members and affiliated clubs on our clubs page.