Thank you to all the members (a lovely 600 of you!) who completed the Gift Aid declaration, in December we reclaimed £3,531! Many thanks to our Finance Director, Ben Hartman for doing all the paperwork on our behalf.

We are hosting a discussion forum to hear your opinions on key topics within our sport. Reserve your place at the Club Get Together on 29th February in Birnam and bring your enthusiasm to our discussions.

2020’s Scottish Night Championships will be hosted by Moravian at the popular site of Findhorn on the Moray Coast. Saturday 15th February will see all competitors don headtorches and set out on their courses to see who will be crowned Scottish Night Champions! Be sure to enter before Sunday’s closing date!

The SOA Board of Directors would like to welcome all members to attend our AGM which will take place on Saturday 6th June as part of STAG‘s Giant Weekend in Glasgow.

My name is Denise Martin and as the Volunteering Officer for Scottish Orienteering I’d like to thank all our coaches and volunteers for the great work you do for the sport in Scotland!

sportscotland wants to better understand the contribution it makes to building an Active Scotland, so take 5 minutes to complete the annual sportscotland Club Survey and your club will be entered into the draw to win £1000. This survey is open to ALL club members.

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.

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.