Moneyhole Park, 11th April 2026
Note: 10:30 start – later than usual to avoid clashing with ParkRun.
Welcome to Moneyhole Park, one of our monthly Saturday Series events. Beginners are very welcome and there are courses for all standards.
Beginners
First timers are very welcome. Look for our greeters in hi-vis jackets.
You can go around individually, in pairs or in a larger family group. From an entries perspective, pairs and groups are treated as a single runner – it’s one entry, you get one map, one timing chip (“dibber”) and one finish time listed in the Results. We charge per “entry” not per person and it’s easiest to enter in advance – see Entering for the first time for more info on how to do this.
If you’ve not orienteered before, we suggest most people start with the yellow course. Young juniors, say primary school age, and family groups are better on white. People confident with a map and compass may start on orange. If you find your course too easy, club policy is to offer you a run on the next course up at no cost, provided there’s enough time and there are maps available.
Don’t forget to download between runs!
Free Taster Runs: If you want to just try it without being in the results, we are now offering that you can just turn up and use a map to find control points on the White or Yellow courses. Suitable if you have just run the Park Run and would like to explore what Orienteering is all about.
Parking
We are using the car park in Panshanger West not the one in Moneyhole Park itself which will be full due to numerous football matched taking place that morning.
Enter from Panshanger Lane at SG14 2NJ, What3words cult.term.bake and follow the estate access road for 500m to the car park. You must pay the car park fee, £2.50 for up to 4 hours, at the machine in the car park. Card / phone payment is available.
Public Transport
Panshanger Lane is serviced by the Arriva 401 bus service. The nearest stops are Leys Down or Russett Wood. From the bus stops, walk East through Moneyhole Park and through the woods to arrive at the Panshanger Lane parking entrance (around 1km).
Terrain
Mixed woodland open parkland.
Map
1:7500 pre-marked maps for all courses on waterproof paper.
Course Timing
Sportident punching will be used.
For those with ‘contactless’ dibbers, SIAC will be enabled for controls, but you must punch the Start; the Finish will be “fly-by”.
Facilities
Toilets. There will be a coffee & cake trailer in the car park – see https://www.facebook.com/plantedcoffee/ for more information.
Dogs
Keep on lead and clear up behind you.
Safety
By participating in this event, you acknowledge that you do so at your own risk and are responsible for your own safety.
Members of British Orienteering—which includes those who have joined an affiliated club such as HH—are covered by the organisation’s public liability insurance. Please note: If you are not a BOF member, if you accidentally injure someone or damage property during the event, you are not covered by this insurance.
A full risk assessment has been carried out.
Officials
| Planner | Daniel Hitch |
| Organiser | Neil Gostick |
| Controlling | Laura Parkes |
Courses
Courses for everybody from beginners of any age to experienced orienteers.
| Course | Straight line Distance | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| White | 1.5 km | Easy – all along paths. Control flags when you need to decide whether to turn. |
| Yellow | 2.0 km | Fairly easy – navigate along line features such as paths, walls, streams. Some turns with no control flags. |
| Orange | 2.5km | Moderate – start cutting across country, some controls a bit away from line features. |
| Light Green | 3.5 km | Harder – a range of navigational skills needed to find controls on any mapped feature. |
| Short Blue | 5.5 km | As hard as we can make it on the area. |
You may enter any course and will automatically be entered in the club’s Saturday League unless you ask not to.
Course Notes
Courses are all in the woods or park to the West of Panshanger Lane.
Starts
When you enter, you can choose a 15 minute start block between 10:00 and 11:30. The start / finish will be approximately 500m from the car park so allow 10 minutes to walk there or use it as a warm up jog. It’s back up the access road, so please take care of cars entering or leaving.
Courses close 13:15. Please choose a start block to allow yourself plenty of time to finish before then.
Entry & Fees
Entries will be via SI Entries. You must enter on line. Online entry will remain open until 11:15 on the day, while maps and start slots are available.
Entries up to midnight on Sunday Sunday 05 April:
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Entries from Monday 06 April :
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Dibber hire £1. Charge for lost dibbers £35.
Dibber Collection: Please collect from the Event Centre before going to the start.
If you cancel more than 7 days before the event we will refund your fees less an amount for admin and transaction costs. There is no refund for cancellations less than 7 days in advance.
If we have to cancel the event we will try to reschedule it. We will transfer your entry to the rescheduled event unless you ask for a refund.
Results
Interim results will be published direct to the club website every few minutes during the event. There will be no printed results (apart from your own splits) or WiFi available.
Full results will be published to the same location and to Routegadget; we aim to do so on the day of the event.
The small print
This event is registered with British Orienteering, number 87750.
Orienteering is a great sport for youngsters. If you bring children, please help us to keep to our safeguarding policy and British Orienteering’s photography policy.
Your personal data is used for results and insurance, see our privacy policy.
