Shop, climb, eat, drink, be merry at the Mile End Winter Market
Celebrating independent makers and creators from Mile End Climbing Wall and the wider climbing community, the Mile End Winter Market is the ideal spot for you to get those extra special gifts sorted in time for the holidays and spread some festive cheer with friendly folk at the wall...
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We're looking for instructors who can deliver high-quality climbing sessions with a focus on great customer service...
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Are you a leader with a passion for climbing, an eye for detail, and a solid track record in managing teams? Mile End Climbing Wall (MECW), the trading name of the charity Development through Challenge (DtC), is on the lookout for a skilled and dynamic Head of Instruction and Safety...
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Calling all creatives and small businesses in the Mile End Climbing Wall community!
We're planning a winter market to celebrate the festive season on Saturday 07 December from approx...
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Upcoming Events:
Mile End Winter Market Saturday 07 December, 12:00-4:00pm
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It’s here… our new gym area is now OPEN featuring equipment from Primal Strength...
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We've got some hot offers to brighten up June:
Never been to Mile End Climbing Wall before? First-time climbs are half price for the whole of June - now only £6...
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The Junior British Bouldering Championships are coming to Mile End Climbing Wall on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May 2022...
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It's only two more days until our First ever She Climbs event kicks off, on Friday 4 February...
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In part 3 of our series of She Climbs mini interviews, we talk to Gracie Martin...
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In part 2 of our series of She Climbs mini interviews, we talk to climber, routesetter and coach Imi Bagnall-Smith...
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In advance of the first ever She Climbs event on Friday 4 February, we sent a few questions to all the setters taking part...
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As of 1 January 2022 our prices will be changing...
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Our new t-shirts are here and available to buy...
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Andy Reid, our dear friend, colleague and Chief Executive of Mile End Climbing Wall, passed away unexpectedly on 27 January 2021...
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Blokfest is coming to Mile End Climbing Wall on Saturday February 1st*
Blokfest is five giant bouldering festivals led by world-class boulder setting at the premier league climbing centres in the South of England...
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, the Mile End Climbing Wall Customer Christmas Party...
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We are recruiting for the position of Duty Manager...
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We are looking for an HR Administrator to join our team here at Mile End Climbing Wall...
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Tour Du Bloc is back
Come and join us for the first round of a new Tour Du Bloc series...
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On Saturday 24th March Rock On are hosting their latest Boot Demo & Bouldering Competition here at Mile End Climbing Wall...
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We are look to recruit climbing instructors to work at weekends here at Mile End Climbing Wall...
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After many weeks of frustration, determination, hard work and countless attempts (and lots of power screaming!) Erin, one of our Squadlets sent her first 8A! After having watched Erin progress on the route little by little, some days getting further than others, slowly linking parts of the route together, she finally conquered it, achieving something amazing! What is even more incredible is that only a few months ago Erin was terrified of leading - WELL DONE ERIN!! Here's to many more 8As and lots of crushing!
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During half term, one of our squadlets, Anya, competed in Rome in the Lazio Open Lead Cup - for her category she placed first!! Congratulations Anya - that's amazing!
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For his last ever competition in the Youth Climbing Series, Callum travelled up to Ediburgh to compete in the National Final of the series...
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The final round of the BMC's YCS took place recently - the regional final and some of our squadlets' last ever YCS! Some fabulous results were obtained yet again at The Castle and Whitespider Climbing, including two third place podiums...
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The end of February brought us to the second round of the BMC's YCS at Reading Climbing Centre and High Sports Brighton...
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During February half term, a session was organised whereby the younger squadlets from Academy could come along and climb with some of the older squadlets from Main Squad and Perfomance Squad...
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As comp season begins for 2017, many of our squadlets took part in the first round of the BMC's Youth Climbing Series at The Reach and Craggy Island...
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our favourite climbing wall is 30 years old this year...
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Over the last week 15 squadlets went to Fontainebleau to try some outdoor bouldering and got to learn the difference between climbing indoors and outdoors...
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Round 2 of our amazing Tour Du Bloc competition takes place here at the wall on Friday 24th June...
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A while back we had an in house squad comp where everyone from squad and academy took part which allowed us to get to know each other ...
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Last weekend Performance Squad members Megan Peters & Callum Sturgeon travelled to Edinburgh for the national finals of the Youth Climbing Series, after qualifying in the top three of their regions (London and South East-South and London and South East -North respectively)...
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Many squadlets took part in the 12th Vauxcomp on the 6th of April with everyone doing extremely well...
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Well done to everyone who took part in the 3rd round of the BMC Youth Climbing Series which took place at Reading climbing centre and White Spider...
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On Saturday 19th March Rock On are hosting their latest Boot Demo & Bouldering Competition here at Mile End Climbing Wall...
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Well done to all of the squadlets that took part in the final round of Blokfest last Saturday...
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Well done to all the squadlets who took part in the second round of the youth climbing series at the Lock and Craggy Island, everyone did extremely well and congratulations to Megan P and Callum who both took third place...
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We are looking to employ a shift manager to help run the centre during the day, evenings and weekends...
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Well done to all the squadlets who took part in the fourth round of blokfest which was at Bloc Bristol...
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Many of the squadlets took part in the first round of the BMC youth climbing series, most of them competed at Westway Sports Centre and a few competed at Surrey Summit...
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Congratulations to Callum,Gemma and Megan P who took took part in the Vauxwall competition at the beginning of February...
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Well done to all the Squadlets that competed in the third round of Blokfest with everyone achieving high scores in the hardest round so far...
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Congratulations Callum and Gemma on winning a Wild Country chalk bucket and Black Diamond chalk in the NICAS photo competition, which involved them bat hanging from the monkey room dressed up as penguins!
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Why not join us on Saturday 16th January for an amazing lecture with High Performance Dietician Rebecca Dent...
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As usual there will be some disruption & changes to our opening times during the festive season...
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Well done to Matt & Callum with their success at the Reach competition last week...
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It's that time of year again when we invite all our customers (over 18 years old) to don their most outrageous fancy dress outfits and come dance the night away at our annual Christmas Party...
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Don't forget the amazing Reel Rock 10 screening here at the wall this Sunday (22nd November)...
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Fancy helping our Squad raise some much needed funds? If so please buy some raffle tickets and you could win yourself one of our amazing hamper prizes just in time for Xmas...
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This August, all of squad were gven the opporunity to climb on real rock in Snowdonia...
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All members of squad and thier parents enjoyed a BBQ (along with some climbing, of course) to allow the current members of Squad to meet the new Academy members! Mike and Dean took their roles as chefs very seriously...
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After smashing numerous competitions at Vauxwall this season, Callum wins the overall best junior male...
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The centre is now open again but there is still no access to our car park...
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A big congratulations to Calum who achieved first place at the most recent VauxWall competition!
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Boring but important: We have just been informed that the local authorities are doing some work on the water supply outside our main gate...
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Just over two weeks have passed since Mile End hosted the epic final round of Blokfest...
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Its just over 2 weeks until the final round of Blokfest 2015 hits Mile End, so heres a rundown of whats happening in and around the centre...
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It's been a while since we last updated our routesetting blog so we thought we would give a quick overview on the setting that's just happened and what's coming up in the next few weeks...
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From Sunday 1st February our policy covering adults supervising children in the centre changes...
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A big well done to the squad members who took part in the London & SE (north & south) 1st round of the BMC Youth Climbing Series...
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3 of our brilliant squadlets made the journey up to Derby on the 7th December for the first round of the Junior Boulder Cup...
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It's just been confirmed that the Wids Boyz, Tom Randall & Pete Whittaker are bringing their new lecture series to Mile End Climbing Wall later this month...
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It's a pleasure to say that at long last (and slightly later than we anticipated) the new Competition Wall in The Secret Garden is now fully open...
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Congratulations to Callum, one our our rising stars who recently took first place at the VauxWall competition...
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As the winter starts to draw in and everything gets colder we start to think about the up-coming competition season...
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After many years as a member of the Mile End Squad our squad captain Laura has moved on to pastures new...
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Here we take a look at our Inside to Out course, following a group of London climbers as they take their first steps on real rock...
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Rumours are flying around about a comp wall in the Secret Garden...
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We are looking for CWLA Assessed Instructors, preferably with experience...
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It's time for the IRATA boys and girls to take over the Secret Garden again...
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With the next Tour Du Bloc just over a week away, the Routesetting Team have taken delivery of a large amount of new holds from Volx for our new green V2-V4 circuit...
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Just a short but sweet note to remind everyone that we will be open 10am - 6pm on Saturday 3rd, Sunday 4th & Monday 5th May...
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Tour Du Bloc our brand new competition event starts here at the wall this Friday 25th April 6 - 9pm...
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London Final of BMC Youth Climbing Series took place at the end of March at The Castle Climbing Centre with Callum’s 7th position with only one point behind 5th and 6th position...
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A number of people have asked us to publish the dates when the Secret Garden area is closed due to courses taking place in there, so here goes...
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Summer is nearly here, and with it comes Tour Du Bloc...
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On Saturday the 22nd March 2014 we will be having a cake sale at the wall to help raise money for a squad trip to North Wales in the Summer...
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After many many years we have decided to extend our weekday opening hours...
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Well folks, the rope bay is almost finished...
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The Secret Garden Bloc was reset yesterday and by 7 o'clock the graden was packed with people trying the new problems! Great to see so many people getting involved with the top outs, and the different angles and climbing style out there...
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The second half of the Rope Bay re-furbishment is coming along nicely...
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Fourth round of Blokfest took place at the beginning of the 2014 year all the way in Nottingham with Maisie' s 24th position and Laura’s 27th position in Senior Female category, Morag’s 11th position and Magan S’s 23rd position in under 16 female category, James’ 43rd position in Senior Male category, Callum’s 31st position and Isaac’s 35th position in under 16 male category...
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The first half of the rope bay has been refurbished and is looking good...
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The setters have been back for only a few days and already have a couple of re-sets under their belts...
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The 2014 is almost over with three rounds of Blokfest and Selection day to British Team marking the end of competition this year...
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The setters are back from a trip to Font a few weeks ago and have brought back renewed psych and ideas from the forest (and a reminder of how bad all the footholds are...
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