This year’s Scottish Orienteering Championships will take place at Tentsmuir – north of St. Andrews – on the weekend of 22^nd-23^rd August 2020.

A New Year has dawned, a new decade is afoot so why not give the gift of volunteering as one of your resolutions in 2020? We recognise the considerable time and energies that many of you give to your clubs and at events throughout the year – we are truly grateful to all those who make our sport happen on a weekly basis. However we at Scottish Orienteering NEED your input too.

Following the success of the workshop in September, Scottish Orienteering is planning to run a further two workshops on MapRun – the smartphone app which allows you to create and take part in orienteering “events” using GPS signals to identify control sites. Next up will be a session in Nairn on Wed Feb 5th from 7:30-9:30pm at Nairn Community Centre. The date and venue for a session in Edinburgh will be confirmed shortly.

Some of the work the SOA staff have been working on ‘behind the scenes’ is our compliance as a Governing Body with the Equality Standard. This sits firmly with our commitment to ensuring our sport is welcoming and inclusive to all who wish to participate.

It has been great to see so many smiling faces at New Year events that have already taken place up and down the country. We want to wish all our members an active and fun year as we look ahead into 2020.

As we come to the end of 2019, the Scottish Orienteering Association’s President, Richard Oxlade, gives an update on the SOA’s strategic plan as we look forward to the next five years. You can read this in the latest issue of SCORE, or below.

As a sport, it’s vital that we get young people involved in helping to plan and organise orienteering events. Here’s the views of Faith Kenyon’s (W14, MOR), first taste of ‘proper’ event planning.

You can now download the December issue of Scottish Orienteering’s magazine – SCORE – with print copies set to be in the post in the New Year.

Taken from the latest issue of SCORE magazine, you can learn more about AROS, where they started and the plans they have in place for their 10th and EUOC’s 55th anniversaries next year.

MapRun is an app which allows you to use your smartphone to enjoy orienteering without a need to set up physical control points on the ground. There are now MapRun courses set up all across Scotland which you can go and run right now, with more new ones being added all the time.