The North East Junior Orienteering Squad (NEJS) exists to foster junior talent from the open orienteering clubs in NEOA. This is done by organising coaching days and weekends, sometimes local, and sometimes away from the region in conjunction with other regional squads. Juniors get the chance to represent their region annual at the Junior Inter-Regional Championships (JIRCs).
For more details or to express interest in your junior joining the squad, please contact the Squad Coordinators via the Officials page.
Recent Reports
February 2025 – Great Ayton training weekend – Kildale Woods
October 2024 – JIRCS – Mallards Pike (Bristol)
September 2024 – Peter Palmer relays – Near Cockermouth, Lake District
March 2024 – Lakes training weekend at Tarn Hows
Training Camps and Competitions
Junior squad members may be nominated to attend the following national training or inter-regional completions during the year:
- JIRCS (Junior Inter-Regional Competition) for M/W14s to M/W18s – this weekend competition is held in September and comprises an individual race and a relay for regional squad teams. More information here.
- Peter Palmer Junior Team Relay – annual event aimed at club teams (although small, neighboring clubs can join forces to create a team) comprising M/W12 to M/W18 orienteers. The race is runover 6 legs of differing lengths and difficulty. The race starts roughly ninety minutes before sunrise so that the first leg is run in the dark and the second at dawn!
- Hawkshead Weekend – for M/W16s only – this is a training weekend in the English Lakes ran by JROS, usually held on the last weekend of November.
- JROS Training Camps (Junior Regional Orienteering Squads) – starting at second year M/W14’s through to M/W19 (First Year M/W20). For more information see the JROS website here.