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Mar Orienteering Club’s Jon Musgrave was awarded the 2019 Scottish Orienteering Association President’s Medal at the SOA AGM in Bo’Ness on 22 June, for his outstanding achievements organising orienteering events in Scotland.

We will be hosting an EGM this year on Sunday 22 September to coincide with the SOL and VHI events. Please put the date in your diary, more details to follow.

Alice Wilson (Clyde), Lizzie Stansfield (FVO) , Rachel Brown (ESOC) and Matthew Gooch (MAROC) represented Scotland on the last weekend in June as the first junior international orienteering competition of the year took place in Belarus.

On Friday 28 June, Callendar Park near Falkirk hosted the UK’s first ever orienteering event to be broadcast live, as The Adventure Show showed the JOK Chasing Sprint live on a beautiful summer evening, giving a fantastic introduction to the sport.

You can now watch Scotland’s first orienteering event to be broadcast on live TV on catch-up, after BBC Scotland’s “The Adventure Show” broadcast the coverage on the evening of Friday, 28 June.

Anyone who still hasn’t signed up for this year’s Scottish 6 Days has until this Sunday (30^th June) to save money by entering online before prices increase to “late entry” levels.

Scottish Orienteering’s quarterly magazine, SCORE, is in search of a new Editor to take over after the September issue. As current Editor, Sheila Reynolds, approaches three years as Editor, she has decided it’s time for her to hand over to someone else for the next leg.

Orienteering will be broadcast live from Callendar House, Falkirk, this Friday (28 June) when the JOK Chasing Sprint appears on The Adventure Show on BBC Scotland between 7pm-9pm.

Scottish Orienteering has become a signatory of Scotland’s Mental Health Charter for Physical Activity and Sport, which aims to make physical activity and sport more accessible to people with mental health problems, from grassroots groups to professional clubs.

More than 65 students from St. Gerardines’ and Hythehill Primary schools joined Moravian Orienteers in Lossiemouth on Wednesday for a full day of fun, constructive and challenging activities.