The Halloween weekend saw East Area clubs hosting the Junior Inter Areas Weekend, which combines a relay on the Saturday with an overnight stay for all that wish and the individual event on the Sunday. The event saw juniors from our three areas, East North and West, travel to take part in the weekend.
Read More…The Scottish Score Championships planned in the glorious Culbin were due to be combined with the 6th Scottish Orienteering Urban League (SOUL) event of the 2026 Season on the last weekend in October in what was billed as the Northern Lights Weekend by Moravian Orienteers. However Storm Boelo had other ideas!
Read More…At the Interarea weekend the first winners of the Junior Volunteer Awards were announced. Listening to feedback from last years inter areas, Development Director Mary Williams created the Junior Volunteer Awards to recognise and encourage juniors who are taking their first steps into volunteering. These awards are not about being the best at a role — they are about having a go and learning!
The prestigious Young Orienteer of the Year award was also awarded at the Inter Areas. This award is awarded to one Junior each year who has contributed greatly to orienteering. This can be anything from making events happen, helping run club sessions and getting friends and family involved. This award is sponsored by Tulloch Homes and has been handed out each year since 2018.
As the clocks go back and the dark evenings draw in, look out your headtorch as night orienteering season is upon us! Many of us orienteers embrace the darker evenings as the perfect opportunity to do some night orienteering. Night orienteering is a great way to improve your navigation skills and get out of the house on a mid-week evening.
Monday 2nd November sees the next of our Community Conversations taking place with a focus on Coaching. Our Coaching and Volunteer Officer, Judy Bell, will lead the session with the focus on providing coaches with the opportunity to share and discuss coaching ideas as well as discussing what opportunities coaches want to develop their capabilities.
Read More…Kirsten Strain of Auld Reekie Orienteering Club and Vicky Thornton of Forth Valley Orienteering Club have been appointed as joint managers of the Veteran Home International (VHI) team, following the retiral of Janice Nesbit.
Read More…Jason Inman of Forth Valley Orienteering has been appointed as the Scottish Orienteering Squad (ScotJOS) Team Manager following the retirement of Judy Bell.
Read More…After 6 years in post as Scottish Junior Orienteering Squad (ScotJOS) manager, Judy Bell decided it was time to step down and last Saturday’s Junior Home International was her final event in post. The Scottish juniors and their parents were keen to show their appreciation for Judy’s efforts and so keen were they that they organised not one but two celebrations!
Read More…Last weekend saw Juniors from the Home Nations teams of England, Ireland, Wales and of course Scotland travel to the edge of the Trossachs for the Junior Home Internationals (JHIs). The event used the 5th event of the 2026 Scottish Orienteering League (SOL) calendar at Edinchip (Lochearnhead) for the individuals and a relay event at Lochan Spling near Aberfoyle for the relays. Forth Valley Orienteers (FVO) were hosting both the SOL and provided an opportunity to test themselves against the finest juniors by running the first leg of the relays with a mass start.
Read More…Back in June, Scottish Orienteering was excited to announce the brand‑new Junior Volunteer Awards Scheme. A scheme created to recognise and encourage juniors who are taking their first steps into volunteering. Juniors can be nominated for volunteering in four different categories; planning, organising coaching and IT/results/timing. These awards are not about being the best at a role — they are about having a go and learning! The winners of each category will be announced at the Junior interareas at the end of October.
This scheme was first introduced as a points system whereby juniors could earn points each time they volunteered. The decision has been made to scrap this to avoid over-complicating it. Juniors can be nominated for one or more categories. To nominate a junior we just need their name and it would be helpful if you could provide a note of the volunteer tasks they have undertaken in the past year. Nominations can be made by; the junior, a coach, committee member, area squad official, club fixture secretary.
We have had some fantastic trophies made up for the award and we hope presenting them at the interareas will encourage more juniors to try volunteering.
Please contact heidi@scottish-orienteering.org to nominate a junior for one of these awards. Please have your nominations in by Sunday 25th October.