New to Orienteering?

Orienteering is an exciting outdoor adventure sport which involves navigating around a course using a detailed map and sometimes a compass.
The aim is to navigate between a set of control points and decide the best route to complete the course in the quickest time. It does not matter how young, old or fit you are, and you can run, walk or jog round the course and progress at your own pace.

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Go Orienteering Anytime

We have a selection of locations where you can go orienteering at any time that suits you.
Permanent courses have marker posts, whilst Virtual courses have nothing visible but your phone beeps when you are in the right spot.

Most of our Permanent courses can be used with the MapRun app as well.

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DFOK Events

Sat 18 Oct: KOL1 Capstone Country Park Kent Orienteering League, near Gillingham

Thu 6 Nov: KNC5 High Chart and Limpsfield Kent Night Cup, near Westerham

Sat 15 Nov: KOL 2 Shoreham Woods Kent Orienteering League, near Shoreham

Sat 29 Nov: KOL3 Kings Wood Kent Orienteering League, near Challock

Sat 13 Dec: KOL 4 Beacon Wood Kent Orienteering League, near Bean

News

AGM 2025

Our AGM for 2025 will be on Wednesday 15th October 2025 at 7.30pm.  We are returning to The Malt Shovel in Dartford, 3 Darenth Road, DA1 1LP.

The meeting will be conducted to fit around the arrival of dinner.  This year it will be a hot and cold buffet again.  The price is to be confirmed at maximum £10 a head.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you will be attending to secretary@dfok.co.uk .  We have a seating limit of 24 in total. 

The AGM will elect officers for the committee, where there are to be several changes.  Nominations can be made at the AGM, but preferably speak to me or another committee member in advance to discuss how you could get involved.

Cups and prizes will be presented and club champions will receive their trophies.

Sun 28 Sept

DFOK on Tour - part two

Orienteering for our members doesn't stop during the summer months. There were trips to East Anglia, Stockton and Redcar and closer to home Greenwich and Rotherhithe.

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First junior passport completed

Back in February 2024, DFOK launched a junior passport scheme where juniors could win prizes for attending orienteering events and filling out how the event had gone in their passport afterwards. We have just had our first junior complete the full passport, with Isla Findlay completing all 25 events. She has now received all the awards: a whistle, mini control kite, control description holder, compass, DFOK buff and a free entry to a regional event. Well done Isla, a great effort!!
 

Sun 20 Jul

Sam, 1st overall on score course

Success at the final KOL for DFOK

The final KOL of the season took place on Saturday 17th May at Milton Creek Country Park in Sittingbourne. There was still a lot to play for in the league and this was the last chance to improve your standing. The area is a mixture of some relatively flat rough open with plenty of paths, some lakes and even a level crossing! It was going to be an exciting final event especially suited to the faster runners!

There were some great results by DFOK members on the day especially on the blue, green, yellow and score courses with Antoine Pesenti finishing 2nd on blue, Ian Catchpole finishing 4th on green, Joseph Embleton finishing 2nd on yellow and Sam Embleton and Elaine Eyers finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively on the Score course.

The league standings were then announced and DFOK had eleven top three finishers, with two finishing 1st. Adam Davidson won the junior league for the green course and Sam Embleton won the Score course!! Congratulations to everyone who competed in the KOL this season, especially all the medal winners, and we look forward to seeing you all back in October.

The final results for the series are here.

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Kent Orienteering League 2024-25

The final event of the KOL season takes place at Milton Creek Country Park, Sittingbourne on Saturday 17th May. Many members are in contention for medal places so there is everything to play for on the day. The up to date results are available via a link on this page.

Thu 8 May