PuntO

Event near Cambridge on Wed 24th June 2026

Near: Cambridge
Postcode: CB24 6AZ
Registration location: Trinity Punts

Where?

Near: Cambridge
Event Type: Activity Urban. Parkland. Water.
Postcode: CB24 6AZ
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Entries

On-line entry: Online entry not open yet
Entry on the day: Yes
Registration location: Trinity Punts
Entry fees:

  • Juniors (U21)/students: t.b.c.
  • Adults: t.b.c.
  • Timing chip hire: £ 1
  • Payment: Contactless payment preferred. Cash OK

Summary

Annual Punt Orienteering is based on a punt moving on the River Cam with runners leaving the punt to run short courses before meeting up with their punt again.

Open to all - No punting or even running experience required (you can opt out of punting (e.g. just be punted) or running).

Historic Cambridge surrounding the River Cam with maps of differing scales.

Meet 6.30 p.m., Punting 6.45 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.

Bring your own Picnic afterwards from 8.30 p.m. at Jesus Green.

Aim to present results before 9.00 p.m.

Course Information

Mixture of urban & park orienteering and punting: Score course around park for Juniors (or Seniors) and urban courses for Seniors.

Directions / Parking

Start at Trinity Punts. There is a gate in the wooden fence on the north side of Garret Hostel Lane just before or after Garret Hostel Bridge. Nearest postcode CB2 1TJ

Finish at Jesus Green

Parking is free on Queen's Road (the backs) from 5pm

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 Orienteering, 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:

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 and will remove images that we are notified about.

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