Welcome to the Gay Outdoor Club
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.
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.
Rambling On At The Board Meeting
The Trustees met in London on the 7th April to discuss the future of the website, finances and incentives.
Top of the agenda was what to do about the website. The Trustees all agreed that the Gay Outdoor Club needed to invest in a new website that is easier to update, maintain and is fully compatible with hand held devices....
Women at AOG--Telford Fri to Mon 27th to 30th July 2018
I would like to remind our women members of the above event.
Disappointingly only 3 women so far have booked their places to stay at the University and one woman is also booked on the camp site--see information for that on the AOG webpage, https://www.goc....
GOC Shop
I have been asked about this recently. A news item in November gave details of the merchandise, including a link to the shop.
We have now added the link to the "information" section at the top of the GOC website.
Happy shopping!!
Al
West Wales ...
Keep in touch and spread the word on Facebook and Twitter. @GayOutdoorClub1, #gocuk
Women only weekend at Winchcombe
This was the third year of our women only weekend away.Numbers are restricted to 30 and the event was fully booked.
Lecky had an idea for this to be in The Cotswolds in 2018 but unfortunately she was unable to join us at the last minute.It turned into a great suggestion....
Holford and the Quantock Moors
We were especially lucky with the weather which was fine and sunny with a mild breeze. After a short walk through the village of Holford and having crossed a delightful wooded dell we began a slow climb up the hill along the edge of the Alfoxton estate. At the top, on the moors, there were fine views of the estuary and, beyond, the barely perceptible Welsh mountains....
Cwm Eigiau disaster trail walk
Although the sunny weather ended the day before the walk, a hardy group assembled for a drizzly trudge round the Cwm Eigiau dam disaster walk following a trail up to the point where a dam wall was broken by the weight of water in a reservoir in Cwm Eigiau....
Fri 04 to Mon 07 May 2018
Near Sedbergh, Cumbria, England
Moderate Walk, Transpennine, Adventure Out, Camping and Caravanning Groups Full details...
Sat 05 to Mon 07 May 2018
Wild Camping at the Tarf Hotel
Near Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Mountain Walking, Scotland, Adventure Out Groups Full details...
Sat 05 to Sat 12 May 2018
Spring Cycling and Walking Week, Italy May 2018
Cycling, Berkshire & Mid Thames, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, East Kent, East Midlands, Essex, Hertfordshire, Home Counties Midweek, Lincolnshire, London, Milton Keynes & Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, North East, North Wales, Oxford, Scotland, Solent, Somerset, South Midlands, South Wales, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Transpennine, West Kent, West Wales, Western Midlands, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire & North Somerset, Adventure Out, Cycling, Events Abroad Groups Full details...
Fri 11 to Mon 14 May 2018
East Midlands, YHA Weekend with walks
Near Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England
Social, East Midlands Group Full details...