Are you ever confused about what age class or course to enter? A handy guide has been added to our website for just those moments. Guide to Age Classes and Courses

This years Inter-areas competition for Juniors is fast approaching. We would love to see more parents join us on 3rd/4th September at Pitlochry. There are a number of twin rooms available in the hostels so why not team up with some other parents from your club and come and support the Juniors. You get to run too.

Contact your area co-ordinators for more information. For the North Sue Barrie MAROC/James Laird INVOC; East Claire Ward INT/ Katherine Ivory ESOC and West Roger and Dawn Goddard FVO or speak to someone in your club. Entries close THIS SUNDAY. Enter via this link – wide range of colour coded courses in a great area at Grandtully near Pitlochry. For more information on the Inter-areas competition check out this link.

Following on from the updating of the list of SOA active controllers – which can be found at Club Toolkit – SOA list of qualified event controllers – the operations team at SOA have organised an event for controllers and planners.

The aim of the event is for controllers or planners to have an opportunity to come together and discuss controller’s conundrums.  The focus will be on 2 or 3 real incidents which have taken place in the last year and discuss what actions could have been taken to avoid the incident occurring.  The opportunity will be given to the controllers/ planners to raise other issues.

The lounge at Boat of Garten Community Hall has been booked for Saturday 8th October between 4pm and 6pm.  The event is timed to allow everyone to compete at the Interlopers Middle Distance event at Loch Vaa before the event and there will be refreshments and cake!  We look forward to seeing you there.

A personal testament by Matthew Clark of KFO

I signed up to learn about coaching to help my local club, Kingdom of Fife Orienteers, to assist newcomers at events. Nothing more than that was intended.

I started with Coaching Foundation which covers how different people learn new skills, and the sort of things involved in coaching.

As of 29th July 2022 the following areas in Moray will be embargoed for the Scottish 6 Days Moray 2023 – Culbin Forest, Lossie Forest, Roseisle Forest and Darnaway North.  

The embargo applies to the areas shown on the  Moray 2023 Embargo details

Competitors shall declare themselves non-competitive if their acquaintance with the terrain would give them substantial advantage over other competitors. Nothing that occurred more than 12 months before the date of the event shall be taken into account.

Is the Scottish Junior Inter-area weekend on 3rd/4th September 2022 in your diary?  With information going out to clubs soon, it is important that all juniors have the weekend in the diary as it’s a weekend not to be missed!

Every two years the Scottish Junior Orienteering Squad (Scotjos) organise a 2 week trip to Scandanavia to provide the juniors with the opportunity to experience different terrains and compete outside the UK.

For obvious reasons this has not happened for a couple of years but this summer the squad have headed off to Sweden.

This week sees the start of a series of Summer Camps run in partnership with organisations across Scotland including: Dundee Active Schools @DundeeActiveSchools, High Life Highland @HLHsocial, Scottish Canals and Moray Active Schools.

Each camp is being supported by a young person who has undertaken training through Scottish Orienteering. Some camps have spaces available – especially the ones based around Fort William and Glencoe areas: Sign up for this camp which runs – 1st August to 5th August is still open.

With just an hour until the finals of the Sprint World Championships in Denmark (good luck to all the British athletes), we are already looking ahead to WOC 2024 with excitement. Do you want to be part of the success of WOC 2024 and capitalise on this opportunity for orienteering across the country? Come join our team and scope out the project plan on an initial 6 month contract. We are looking for a highly motivated individual, someone with fresh ideas and a sound background in project planning, marketing and delivery. This project will be all about partnerships! We are seeking an enthusastic person to work with Scottish Orienteering, British Orienteering, WOC 2024 organising committee and clubs.

Do you know how to make a project come to life? Can you raise the profile of WOC2024 and the sport? Can you work with clubs, schools and partners to deliver an exciting programme of events and activities to engage people in orienteering with all eyes towards the streets of Edinburgh in 2024? Apply before 25th July!