Welcome to the Gay Outdoor Club

Important!

Our new website is coming. Please check your email address is correct by following this link

https://www.goc.org.uk/mygoc/personal

Please also check you have ticked the box to "Receive GOC Mailings" by following this link

https://www.goc.org.uk/mygoc/messaging

This is to make sure you can still log on to the new website after Go-Live - planned for January 2019.
Thank you for helping us with this - so we can stay in touch during this important project for the club.
Peter Blackburn. Chairman.

GOC is a members club, run by the people who go on its events. Most events are free and you can just turn up without booking, but when you join GOC all of the money goes to run the club and none on salaries or profits.

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The Gay Outdoor Club operates throughout Great Britain and provides a wide range of outdoor and indoor sports and recreational activities for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender men and women.

Our 1,500 members enjoy over 500 events each year including walking, cycling, mountain biking, canoeing, caving, rock climbing, mountaineering, skiing, swimming and badminton. Most of our events are one day but we also organise weekend and longer events such as hostelling weekends, an arctic adventure and a white water rafting expedition.

For more specialist activities we have groups for caving, rock climbing, cycling, swimming and skiing. Some of those events are for people with experience, but we also have events for novices.

Visitors to the website can get a good idea of our range of activities but only members can access full details of events. You can register now for a free trial account or join to gain full access to our site and events.

Club News

The Future of OUTdoors

9 Nov 2018

After the AOG, the Club put the contract for printing the magazine out to tender. We were delighted to find that switching from the offset litho process that we use at present to a modern digital print process would offer us significant cost savings with no loss of quality....

Rambling On at the Board Meeeting

9 Nov 2018

In our November issue, we published an update on progress in developing the new website. However, following Richard’s resignation, we overlooked the fact that no report had been published on the rest of the board meeting. I apologise for the oversight....

Annual Outdoor Gathering 2019

7 Oct 2018

The 2019 Annual Outdoor Gathering and AGM will be held from Friday 26th to Monday 29th July at Swansea University campus, Singleton Park Swansea. The campus is about a mile from Swansea City centre and directly opposite the sweep of the beautiful Swansea Bay....

Keep in touch and spread the word on Facebook and Twitter. @GayOutdoorClub1, #gocuk

Recent Events

Avon Valley from Bradford to Limpley Stoke 18 Nov 18

19 Nov 2018 | Wiltshire, Gloucestershire & North Somerset Group

A cool bright day greeted our intrepid band for a late autumn walk in the Bristol Avon valley.

Starting from Bradford on Avon, following the Kennet & Avon canal as far as the Bradford sewage works, from where a field and woodland path was taken to Avoncliff with it's canalside housing and stone aquaduct....

Chrome Hill

19 Nov 2018 | Transpennine, Women Groups

Chrome Hill is a limestone reef knoll on the Derbyshire side of the upper Dove valley. It is adjacent to the more distinctive but lower Parkhouse Hill. It is popular amongst the many day-trippers who visit the area, and provides a fine viewpoint north up the dale and south across the Midland plain....

GLOUCESTER - 'A Day to Remember'

14 Nov 2018 | South Midlands Group

We were all thrilled to be joined by a cross group of 25 GOC'ers; ladies, gentlemen, three Group Coordinators, a Board member and a black labrador ...... friends, old and new.

We commemorated Remembrance Sunday at 11.00 with the congregation of Twigworth ...

Next Weekend Events

Fri 30 Nov to Sun 02 Dec 2018

Transpennine ‘Christmas’ Weekend (TP # 12/18)