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Families are being urged to find their way to an outdoors fun day with a difference.

The "mini orienteering" event on June 10 will see children navigate a simple course – with the help of parents – through woodland on the outskirts of Inverness.

They will stamp the map at each checkpoint before returning to the start point, where there will be home baking on offer.

The event, now in its third year, is being staged to raise money for the Highland Cross, a long-standing fundraising duathlon that sees participants run, walk and cycle from the west coast through Glen Affric to Beauly in the east.

Entry to the mini orienteering, at the new venue this year of Milton Woods in Farr, costs a suggested donation of £3 per child.

The course starts at the free car park at the community woods and people can turn up anytime between 10am and 2pm to take part.

The Highland Cross has raised more than £4.7 million since the event began in 1983.

The benefitting charities this year are Abriachan Forest Trust, Blythswood Care, Highland Hospice, MS Therapy Centre and Skye and Lochalsh Mental Health Association.

This year’s Highland Cross takes place on June 23.

Supporting the event is a huge team of organisations and individuals who work to make the day a safe and enjoyable challenge for more than 790 participants.

As well as contingents from the ambulance service, Red Cross, police and fire service there will be: representatives of the Kintail, Dundonnell and Cairngorm Mountain Rescue teams; a "flying doctor" in a helicopter supplied by PDG Helicopters; crews from local youth organisations and community groups organising watering stations; representatives from charities that have benefited or will benefit from the event; plus members of Inverness Harriers.

Organising secretary and co-founder Calum Munro said: "This is a fantastic community effort designed to generate the maximum benefit for causes in Highland."

He also paid tribute to event sponsors.

For more on the orienteering, visit www.johndavidsonoutdoors.com/highlandcross


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