UKUL, EA Urban League & WAGALWest Cambridge UrbanSun 12 April, 2026

Near: Cambridge
Level of event: Regional
Type of event: Race, Urban

Location Info

• Postcode: CB3 0WA *
• Lat,Lng: 52.20986,0.10348
• Grid Ref:
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• Streetmap (OS 50k)
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• OpenStreetMap

* Postcodes are not very precise in some areas, so don't rely on them for an exact location.

Directions / Parking

Event Centre is at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WA.

Arriving by car: There is no car parking at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS). If you travel to the event by car you should use the Madingley Road Park and Ride CB3 0EX. There is no charge for parking. There are then two options to reach CMS: (i) Take the Park and Ride bus (departures every 15 minutes on a Sunday) to the first stop (Storey’s Way). The return fare is £4.50 (adults), £1(children 5-15). English National Concessionary Travel Scheme pass holders can travel free. (ii) Walk along Madingley Road to the Storey’s Way bus stop, which is 1.5km to the east of the Park and Ride site. along Madingley Road. You should keep to the north side of the road. You will pass Churchill College on the left before you reach the Storey’s Way bus stop. At the bus stop use the pedestrian crossing to cross Madingley Road and approach CMS along the bicycle path. (See map – to be provided -- for details.)

More details of the Madingley Road Park and Ride, buses, etc are given at:

https://cambridgeparkandride.info/madingleyroad.shtml

Arriving by public transport from central Cambridge: The Whippet U Bus runs from central Cambridge, e.g. the central Rail Station, to the Storey’s Way bus stop. On Sundays the buses run every hour until about 1100, then every half-hour after that. See

https://www.whippetbus.co.uk/media/hdjptttd/universal-a4-tt-mar25.pdf

Arriving by cycle or on foot: Please approach CMS from Madingley Road. There are cycle racks at the entrance to the CMS.

Course Information

Please note, as this is an urban event, unaccompanied Under 16s (on the day of the event) will be restricted to courses 6 and 7, which both involve a marshalled road crossing.

Course	Class	Optimum Distance (km)	Number of controls
1	Men Open	10.3	36*
2	Veteran Men (40+) Women Open	9.2	33*
3	Supervet Men (55+) Veteran Women (40+)	7.5	28
4	Ultravet Men (65+) Supervet Women (55+)	6.4	24
5	Ultravet Women (65+) Hypervet Men (75+) Hypervet Women (75+)	4.8	24
6	Junior Men (16-), Junior Women (16-)	4.3	21
7	Young Junior Men (12-) Young Junior Women (12-),	2.5	25

^* SI series 5 and 8 dibbers are not suitable for Courses 1 and 2 because of limited capacity. If you are running Courses 1 and 2 and do not have a suitable dibber then visit Registration before you run and request a SIAC on loan.

Courses close at 2.00pm. You must report to Download by this time. Please ensure that you start early enough that you will be able to complete your course by the time courses close.

IMPORTANT: You must report to Download even if you do not finish your course.

Entry Details

Entries via Fabian4 http://www.fabian4.co.uk/ until end 10^th April. Limited Entry on Day will be available subject to map availability.

Reduced entry fee applies for online entries up to 11:59pm on 5th April.

Entry Fees (until end 5^th April): £13 (adult BOF member), £15 (adult non-BOF member), £4 (junior/student). Entries after 5^th April, including Entry on Day, subject to £2 late entry supplement.

We will be using SportIdent electronic punching. SI dibber hire: £1, SIAC dibber hire: £3 (charge of £30 for loss of a hire SI card, £65 for SIAC). Please note that courses 1 and 2 require SI dibbers with a capacity for more than 30 punches. Our standard hire dibbers are not suitable for these courses, but our SIAC hire dibbers are suitable. Please check your own SI dibber has sufficient capacity for your chosen course.

Registration and Start Times

Enquiries, including hire dibber collection and EOD, open 10 am to 12 noon. Entry on the day will be available, subject to map availability, but entries in advance via Fabian4 http://www.fabian4.co.uk/ are preferred.

Starts from: 10.30am until 12.30. There will be no pre-allocated start times. Go to the Start when you are ready. There is a punching start and the start and finish must be punched. SIAC will be enabled. Loose control descriptions will be in the start lanes.

Start: There will be a single start. The distance from Centre for Mathematical Sciences to the Start is 900m along paved footpaths, including a marshalled road crossing. The route will be taped.

Finish: Courses 1-4 will finish at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Courses 5-7 will finish in a different location. The return distance from this finish to the Centre for Mathematical Sciences is 1km along paved footpaths. The route will be taped.

Terrain and map details

Map and Terrain: Map is 1:4000, 5m contours and A4 (courses 5-7)/A3 (courses 1-4). Maps and loose control descriptions will be printed on waterproof paper. Terrain is University sites with varied buildings, some multi-level, and some grassy areas. 

A previous map is shown at https://www.cuoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#37, but note that the 12^th April Event will not use Churchill College.

Dog restrictions

No dogs allowed on courses or on CMS site.

Facilities: Registration, Enquiries, Bag Storage, Download, and Toilets will be located at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. There is on-site drinking water but supply may be limited. There will be no on-site food sale and this part of Cambridge is a bit of a food desert. There are shops,cafes and restaurants in central Cambridge and also in the Eddington area close to the Madingley Road Park and Ride.

Contacts / Officials

Organiser: Peter Haynes entries@waoc.org.uk

Planner: Matt Eaton

Controller: Sarah Mansel (SUFFOC)

Welfare Officer: Helen Hague welfare@waoc.org.uk

Important Event Information

Safety and Risk: A risk assessment is carried out by the organiser in advance of each event, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event.

Insurance: Our events and activities are registered with British Orientering, and have been risk assessed.  Our event officials have appropriate training for the level of event involved.   This means our events are covered by British Orienteering's public liability insurance.   For insurance purposes, we ask that when you register for an event that you provide full names of anyone who goes out on a course, even if just accompanying a junior or part of a group (these additional names won't be recorded in the results - for example they can just be noted on the back of your registration slip).

Please note: By entering an event, you acknowledge that you are taking part at your own risk.  From 1st January 2026 onwards, participants who are not members of British Orienteering are not covered by British Orienteering’s public liability insurance.  If you are not a member of British Orienteering and were to, for example, accidentally injure a member of the public or damage property during the event, you would not be covered.

Privacy: 

WAOC process entrant information on the basis of legitimate interest to produce competition results, to provide participation and results information to British Orienteering, and we retain details for a period to meet our insurance requirements.  Published results may include (but not limited to) name, any club affiliation, race times and age group. Read our data protection page for further information about how we look after your personal information.

Welfare and Safeguarding:

We want everyone to feel safe and welcome at our events.  

If you would like special assistance, such as a quiet start or other request, please do let us know. Ideally by contacting the organiser in advance, otherwise ask on the day and we will help if we can.

As a club, we support and follow British Orienteering’s safeguarding policies,which can be found via the links below:

• Child Safeguarding Policy
• Safeguarding Adults at Risk Policy

We also have our own child welfare policy.  See also our Safeguarding and Welfare page.

Taking Photographs:

In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or videos showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or videos and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.

Club's use of Images:

We may sometimes publish photographs of event participants in news items or publicity.  At events where we have arranged for photography we will advertise this at the event and in advance in the event details.  

We aim always to obtain the permissions of parent or responsible adult before we publish any picture showing a junior participant as the main focus. Although we cannot guarantee that an event photographer will not take photographs of any given individual, we will do our best to avoid publishing images of individuals who have told us they do not wish to be photographed.

Read our data protection page for further information about our policy on photography and use of images.