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.
Waters of Wales
Access to the Outdoors: Welsh Government Consultation closing soon, HAVE YOUR SAY! We are writing to let you, and your club members, know about the Waters of Wales - WoW campaign and how your group can help inform the Welsh Government Consultation 'Taking ...
Winning Photo September - The GOC Swingers
Septembers winning photo was taken by Ian Harrold of Steven Dewar, on the banks of the River Severn.
Here is a link to a writeup of the event including more photos of swingers.
www.goc.org.uk/news/article/river-banks--tewkesbury--gloucs
Upcoming Changes and what Remains the Same
We have spent quite some time looking at the results of the survey and we have already touched on some of the findings at the AGM. It has been difficult to reach any hard and fast conclusions from the data provided because we have a very diverse membership and for every member who liked an aspect of the club or the website there were others who did not....
Keep in touch and spread the word on Facebook and Twitter. @GayOutdoorClub1, #gocuk
St Agnes to Porthtowan
For Septembers group gathering, Twelve members headed onwards and upwards to St Agnes Beacon then back down again to Chapel Porth and then along the beach to Porthtiwan before moving inland to head back to St Agnes where we ended the day in a slightly different way to usual with a visit around the local museum....
14 October 2017: Cholesbury to Chartridge
Event led by David W Attendance: 16 men, 2 dogs. Distance: 13km (8.24 miles) Time: start 11:06, end 15:47, lunch 37 minutes Terrain: footpath, bridleway, field edge, woodland, road/pavement. Elevation: start 184m, high 199m, low 172m Weather: warm, humid, overcast, little or no wind 18°C
This was an 8....
Dorset Group: Shillingstone/Hambledon Hill/Child Okeford 08/10/2017
The start-point for the walk proved difficult to find for some of the participants, and at 10.50 there were still only three of us, However, we eventually amassed a party of ten, eager to ascend the heights of Hambledon Hill. The first mile or so was easy-going on the Trailway created from the former S&D railway trackbed....
Sat 14 to Sun 22 Oct 2017
Autumn Cycling and Walking Week, Mallorca October 2017
Cycling, London, Adventure Out, Cycling, Events Abroad Groups Full details...
Fri 03 to Sun 05 Nov 2017
Autumn Gathering near Hebden Bridge
Near Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England
Some options need booking
Moderate Walk, 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, Women Groups Full details...
Fri 01 to Sun 03 Dec 2017
Transpennine ‘Christmas’ Weekend (TP # 12/17)
Near Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England
Some options need booking
Difficult Walk, Transpennine, Adventure Out Groups Full details...
Sat 23 to Wed 27 Dec 2017
Christmas YHA Dec. 23rd - 27th.
Near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England
Social, East Midlands Group Full details...