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The 2019 Scottish Orienteering Association Annual General Meeting will take place at Bo’ness Academy, as part of the Sprint Scotland event on Saturday 22nd June, and you can now download minutes from the 2018 meeting plus the booklet for the 2019 meeting, which includes details on how members can vote.

The Scottish Orienteering Association is looking for nominations and applications for four key roles – a President, a Board Chair, Secretary and a Director of Performance and a secretary.

Scottish Orienteering is offering a range of courses this summer, for young and old across the country who’d like to improve their leading, coaching and first aid skills.

A week of World Orienteering Day events kicked off on 15 May and in Edinburgh school children, pre-school children, a team from Active Scotland and even MSP Joe FitzPatrick, Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing, got involved.

World Orienteering Week runs from Wednesday 15^th May to Tuesday 21^st May and schools, clubs and groups across Scotland have registered “World Orienteering Day” events with the aim of breaking a world record and getting new people into the sport.

Last week the World School Championships in Orienteering took place in Otepaa, Estonia. The team had a fantastic week, with some really solid results that bode well for the future, especially as many of the youngsters are in the younger year of the 2-year age category.

To help us continue to grow the sport, the Scottish Orienteering Association needs the opinions of Scottish orienteers of all ages to help choose the best way to increase income from the sport. If you’re an SOA member, we’re asking you to please complete this survey by Friday 10 May:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W7RMZB6

The 2019 British Orienteering Championships were a “tour de force” in Yorkshire for many of Scotland’s clubs and individuals, who headed south for championships based around Bradford, Leeds and the Yorkshire Dales.

Are you new to orienteering but not sure where to start? Claire Ward, SOA Performance Director, put together this guide, as featured in the latest issue of SCORE.

Many Scottish orienteers are heading to Yorkshire this May Day weekend for the 2019 British Orienteering Championships.  Following the individual and team successes at the recent JK, hopes are high that Scots will feature prominently on the podium.