If you haven’t yet given your input on the competition calendar review, please give your views by Monday 21 October! You can read more about the background of the review below.

Over the weekend of 11^th – 13^th October the Scottish Junior Team travelled to Northern Ireland for the Ward Junior Home Internationals. The individual races were held on the Saturday at Cassey Water in the Mourne Mountains and the relays at Donard Forest.

Erskine is set to host the final round of the BTO Scottish Orienteering Urban League at the end of October and anyone looking to take part needs to get their entry in by this Sunday – October 20th.

If you have little or no experience on how to use SI and SITiming software, Robin Strain will present a free workshop to you how to set up an event and run the timing on the evening of Wednesday 30^th October.

The newly formed Scottish West Area Training squad – also known as the “SWAT” squad – has taken off with over 30 juniors from the west area of Scotland signed up to enjoy training on how to improve orienteering skills.

The SOA Development team is organising a workshop on orienteering for youngsters with autism and related additional support needs, to be held at Levenmouth Academy, Fife, on Nov 16th. There are a few places available for interested orienteers to attend and contribute to the workshop.

Minutes from the 2019 Scottish Orienteering Extraordinary General Meeting – held at Dreghorn Barracks on 22 September – are now available to download.

Following on from Women & Girls in Sport week, we’ve got two more people’s views to share with you – Fran Loots & Lil Kenyon, who shared their views on leading in these videos.

Throughout Women and Girls in Sport Week 2019 we’ve highlighted some of our female leaders within orienteering. While it officially finished on Friday we’ve still got a couple more to highlight and here we look at Lindsay Robertson.

As Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week continues, today we look at Sarah Dunn, who leads in orienteering and is Development Manager and Regional Development Officer for the North of Scotland.