Your Club Welfare Officer
Our Club Welfare Officer is Ian Komor
The Club Welfare Officer is a first point of contact if anyone has a concern about the welfare or safeguarding of a child or adult.
I have been active in sport with young people for many years as a helper, coach and manager of a team for 13 years. I have held the post of welfare officer since 2019.
Everyone has a shared responsibility for safeguarding and for creating a safe, welcoming and enjoyable environment in orienteering, whether they are an orienteer, parent or carer, coach, volunteer, club official or spectator.
At Southern Navigators, we want everyone to feel safe and welcome. If you have a safeguarding or welfare concern, or witness something that concerns you, please report it as soon as possible.
Reporting a safeguarding concern
If you have a safeguarding concern about a child or adult, you can contact either:
Our Club Welfare Officer
Ian Komor
Email: [email protected]
British Orienteering
Jeanette Downing
Lead Safeguarding Officer
Telephone: 07891 091 662
Email: [email protected]
You can raise a concern about something that has happened within orienteering or outside the sport where it affects a British Orienteering member or participant.
All safeguarding concerns are taken seriously and handled sensitively.
You can also report a concern using British Orienteering’s Quick Report Form:
For full safeguarding information, guidance and reporting options, visit:
If someone is in immediate danger
If a child or adult is in immediate danger, or you believe a crime is taking place, contact the appropriate emergency service. In an emergency call 999.
British Orienteering’s safeguarding policies confirm that the police or relevant statutory authority may be the appropriate first point of contact where someone is at immediate risk or a crime is suspected.
Our safeguarding commitment
Southern Navigators is committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk and follows British Orienteering’s safeguarding policies and procedures.
The current policies and supporting guidance can be found on the British Orienteering Safeguarding webpage:
In particular, clubs should refer to:
- Child Safeguarding Policy
- Safeguarding Adults at Risk Policy
- Lower-Level Concerns Policy and Procedures
- relevant safeguarding guidance and training requirements.
British Orienteering currently provides these and other safeguarding resources through its central Safeguarding page.
