About us
We are Royal Holloway's Climbing Society. We climb indoors twice a week at Blue Spider in Guildford and The Font in Hounslow. We also organise several termly outdoor trips!
Our usual timetable of outdoor trips is Wales in Term 1, Cheddar Gorge/Peak District in Term 2, and Portland in Term 3. This offers you a great opportunity to transfer all that practice from our weekly indoor sessions onto real rock. We have a number of experienced members and committee members that are able to show you the ropes (if you’ll excuse the pun)!
For those showing the most potential and who like competing, we also participate in the London University Bouldering Event.
Membership
Purchasing a membership to our society gives you a BMC student membership of an affiliated BMC club and gives you insurance for climbing with us. It also contributes to our club gear fund – giving you access to our pool of climbing gear, including climbing shoes, harnesses, ropes, and quickdraws.
Our membership costs £40.00 for the year – this covers BMC club membership, club gear and insurance. Sessions are a pay as you go system of:
- Wednesday Sessions: £4.00/3.50¹ for transport + £8.50 wall entry at Blue Spider
- Friday Sessions: A train ticket to Hounslow + 10.50 wall entry to The Font.
You only pay for the sessions you want to go to!
The membership allows you to join us on our weekly climbing sessions and our club trips, which normally run termly.
You do not need to buy a membership before your taster session, as we think it is fair for you to have a chance to give it a go before you buy membership.
1. The price will be £4.00 per session however ten sessions of transport can be brought for £35.00 bring the price down to £3.50 a session.
Events and Activities
During term time, we climb every Wednesday afternoon at Blue Spider in Guildford, and every Friday evening at The Font in Hounslow. To join us, you comment on the relevant sign-up post on our Whatsapp (linked at the bottom of this page). It operates on a first come first served basis dependent on how many drivers we have, so if you're a climber with a car at Uni and want to drive, pop that in the sign up chat as well! The list will be posted the day before the climbing session with the names of those climbing.
Our Club socials include regular pub nights, termly cocktail parties, pub quizzes, a fancy Christmas Meal, Come In Your Kit (an SU night), fun challenge nights, as well as some more relaxed evenings such as Pancake night and movie nights.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about joining the club, please message our Instagram page or Whatsapp!