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ADVICE OF ONSW MANUAL UPDATE – 3.3 Membership
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Approved by ONSW Board: 25 February 2025 |
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Effective date of new policy: 25 February 2025 |
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Extent of Manual Update: Updated to reflect current practice including removal of Family membership category. Addition of Life Membership section. Change of name from Registration to Membership
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Reason for Update and Relevance: This Manual section was last updated in 2013. The 2025 update is to align with: a) current Membership categories (no Family membership or special rate for new members); b) the current process for joining ONSW or renewing ONSW membership (including if a Life Member); and c) Associated Group restrictions. The section has been renamed as Membership to avoid confusion with the term ‘registration’ which is used in relation to entering an event. |
ADVICE OF ONSW MANUAL UPDATE – 3.5 Associated Groups
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Manual No. and Section Title: 3.5 Associated Groups |
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Approved by ONSW Board: 25 February 2025 |
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Effective date of new policy: 25 February 2025 |
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Extent of Manual Update: Update of Manual to reflect current policy and practice. Reformatted. Change to 4.2b) as membership of an Affiliated Club is required if selected in NSW Schools Team. |
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Reason for Update and Relevance: This Manual section was last reviewed and updated in 2021. This 2025 update has reformatted the section and amended 4.2b) in line with ONSW Manual 8.5 whereby once selected, all members of the NSW Schools Team are required to be members of an affiliated ONSW Club. |
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7th to 9th June 2025 - NSW Schools Team Selection Events
The selection events for the 2025 NSW Schools Team will be the three days of KBIII (7-9 June 2025) with a Middle, Long and Sprint to be contested in the Orange/Bathurst area.
More details will be available soon but in the meantime the new policy can be accessed at the ONSW Manual webpage:
https://www.onsw.asn.au/resources/onsw-manual (scroll down to 8.5 NSW School Team Selection)
Ori Gudes, Uringa Orienteering Club
Ori has always been a keen foot and MTBO orienteer although he has a special passion for MTBO:
· He has competed in many state championships and travels regularly to Newcastle for the BOS series and across the country for the MTBO National League.
· When Newcastle announced that they would not be running the 2024 NSW MTBO Championship, Ori was crestfallen.
· It was at this point in time that he took it upon himself to organise the 2024 championships. It is important to understand that without Ori the championships would not have been run at all as nobody was prepared to take on the task.
· He set about organising the championships.
o To do so he had many meetings with possible terrain owners including Mt Annan Botanical Gardens, Royal National Park.
o The meetings to gain approval for the use of Mt Annan were lengthy and complex and quite frankly would have turned most people away. However, Ori persevered and was able to gain formal approval for what was a first ever MTBO event in the gardens.
o This of course required arranging making a new map with extensive field work.
o Gaining access to the land at Appin was similarly difficult and he drew upon his GIS mapping expertise to confirm that the land in question was Crown Land. The terrain for the Appin map was particularly challenging to work in being exceptionally rugged.
o As well as negotiating areas, Ori was able to round up course planners for the Middle and Long (Ori was the setter for the Sprint & controller for the Long) as well as controllers for the other events.
o Clubs were engaged to provide support for the events as well as securing a number of additional volunteers to assist across the three days. This was a massive undertaking and he had to face many people turning down his requests for assistance.
o A major obstacle came later in the planning when the Sydney City Race was scheduled for the Sunday when traditionally the MTBO Long Champs would have been scheduled. Undaunted Ori was able to shuffle area, setters, controllers and volunteers to be able to run the event on Monday, which was very unconventional. The City Race also had the effect of reducing the available volunteers for Ori’s events.
o To make the Championships a special event Ori organised prizes for winners from sponsors and even had a coffee cart at the Saturday events- sheer luxury at a MTBO event.
o He managed to create a special focus on junior entrants with special prizes awarded including a choice of orienteering equipment.
o He organized commentary from world renowned MTBO commentator Arpad at all events.
o He also organized podiums to be used for presentations which were later used for the Australian MTBO Championships.
o Louise Brooks, media and Kathy Drayton, finance, were involved to ensure the event was financially viable and also well publicised. The event attracted a large contingent of riders from New Zealand and a smattering of riders from other countries.
· The 2024 MTBO Champs had record patronage and an outstanding success.
