Walton Chasers Orienteering Club or ‘Chasers’ is centred on Cannock Chase, and has members from Stafford and surrounding areas, including Stone, Staffordshire Moorlands, Cannock, Rugeley, Uttoxeter, Lichfield, Tamworth and the northern parts of Wolverhampton and Walsall.
Created in 1969, Walton Chasers has had much success over the years. Many juniors who started orienteering with Walton Chasers have gone on to represent Great Britain as full internationals and we have current members representing the West Midlands and England at Inter Regional and International events.
In 2005 Walton Chasers were awarded the Sport England Clubmark, which means that we are committed to being a safe, effective, child-friendly sports club.
Walton Chasers organise several competitive events of varying size every year. Currently we offer beginners events, West Midlands league events, regional, national and the occasional 
championship standard events. We organise races not only in the terrain and on trails, but the increasingly popular street orienteering in urban areas. As well as line events and score events, we have two annual terrain X country races (handicap races held in June and just before Christmas). We have been entering teams in the Showground Relays since it’s beginnings as the Shugborough Relays in 1988. Want to improve your skills? Or stop them getting rusty? Regular training sessions run throughout the year, using Cannock Chase as soon as the evenings are light enough, and street orienteering with headtorches in the winter. For a change of scenery, we have the occasional club training weekend on technical areas outside Staffordshire.
We are a very social club! We have weekly meetups, sometimes twice a week depending what’s on. At races further afield we often meet up for social events and can be found at the club tent that travels the country for the majors. You don’t have to be ultra-competitive to feel part of the club – orienteering is a sport in which your skills are always improving, so there’s always plenty to chat about after before and after a race. Come and join us!