Event advertising

[distracted]

Just stumbled across the website for the London Park Race series coming up in the next few months:

http://www.parkrace.org/

A professional looking website, sufficient but simple details with no jargon, photos of the venues, location map and a post-race social venue. A great example of how orienteering advertising should be done - and hopefully will catch the eye of a few in the 20-40 age group which it seems to be aimed at!

[Angry Haggis]

Thanks distracted!

We were going to launch the website at the SE Sprints on Saturday - but now the cat is out of the bag I better get some more event details up there...

The series is a collaboration between London and South London orienteering clubs, building on from similar events the respective clubs have individually put on in previous summers, with some influence also from TVOC's excellent and long-running Summer Series. The nine races are also complemented by over 20 other orienteering events happening in London this summer - it's going to be a top summer of O here in the capital, culminating of course with the City Race weekend.

[SeanC]

The London clubs are making a great effort at the moment. I counted 33 events between now and September listed in the "other events in London" link. Not all are quite in London, some are on the fringe but all look walkable from nearby stations. DFOK are doing 11 local events. Many of these are aimed mainly at the local population, but please do come out to beautiful South East London - there will be something for the experienced as well as beginners.

[Meat Market]

All credit to SLOW and LOK and other London clubs, I lived in London for 9 months and found well organised/publicised events most weeks that I could get to by bus/tube. I may steal parts of their Urban score league to try and get some kind of series going up in Aberdeen in 2011.