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

• Urban League results updated after the first event of 2025.
• The EA League has been updated with the results after the final event of 2024. See our League page.
• Hebe Darwin has written about her summer training camp near Stockholm. Read Hebe's report.

EAOA Championships and AGM 2025

EAOA Championships will take place at Writtle Forest on 22nd June. See SOS website for details. The EAOA AGM will take place after the event. Details to follow.

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.