With Volunteers’ Week taking place from 1-7 June, through our website we’re celebrating many of the volunteers who help make orienteering in Scotland great. The first club to highlight two of their volunteers was Inverness Orienteering Club, so thank you to their volunteers Jenny Hall and Dave Summer!
Read More…Everyone at Scottish Orienteering would like to congratulate Roxburgh Reivers for receiving their Bronze club accreditation, at the Scottish Orienteering Championships in Dumfries & Galloway last weekend.
Read More…Congratulations to BASOC on becoming only the second club to achieve the SOA Silver Club Accreditation Award! Read More…
Congratulations to Loch Eck Orienteers, who have become the latest club to achieve the SOA Bronze Club Accreditation Award!
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Thanks to support from the SOA Club Development fund the new St Andrews Orienteering Club Glasgow website is up and running. A plethora of events/activities is already timetabled for early 2019 but pre-Christmas events include the Glasgow Parks Race and even Indoor O at Glasgow Caledonia University on Wednesday 12 December.
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Congratulations to Mar Orienteering Club who were presented their Bronze Club Accreditation Award today at Bogendreip! Read More…
The Silver level of the Scottish Orienteering Accreditation Scheme builds on what’s been achieved in Bronze and adds in a few new elements to further develop as a club. The criteria is available below this article and you can see more information on the accreditation scheme in our launch news item here.
Accreditation is a clear and positive way to increase credibility with official bodies, landowners, funders and other partners. It can also be a good way to illustrate to members and potential members as a ‘quality mark’ that the club is committed to doing things well, and chimes with other national schemes to establish quality, accredited sports clubs. Read More…
Two new clubs – Stirling University Orienteering Club (STUOC) and Masterplan Adventure (MA) – have recently become affiliated to SOA, bringing the total number of clubs in Scotland to 25. Read More…
Rona Lindsay, SOA Regional Development Officer Central/South, offers some advice to clubs looking to bring in new members. Read More…