This in-person Event Safety and Welfare (ESW) workshop is aimed at all who orienteer – whether you are a coach, a competitor, an event official (planner or organiser) or helper. It is a suitable refresher for those who have attended the course before – there are some new materials!
Delivered in person in South West Scotland in late May, this 2.5 hour workshop will cover event safety and is a prerequisite for all event officials with SOA/BOF events and licenced coaches. We will firm up on a date/venue once we know how many people wish to attend and their availability.
This workshop is free to Scottish members.
Please complete the registration form asap – the sooner we know who needs to do it and their availability, the easier it is for us to schedule.
Events can’t run without volunteers and some of those volunteering roles require a degree of expertise. Come along to one of our courses, learn new skills and help your club and the sport to put on those events that we all enjoy. Courses coming up in 2025 include:
With the 2025 calendar having been pulled together slightly later than anticipated due to the World Orienteering Championships having taken all of the focus earlier in the year, controllers are now requested to have a look at the opportunities available. A spreadsheet of opportunities has been prepared which allows controllers to see what organising and planning opportunities may be available in order to keep up their experience.
The spreadsheet is located on SOA website in Resources/ Event officials and rules/Event controllers/Controlling Opportunities
Following feedback on the need for SI training Robin Strain has also offered to answer queries from controllers at an online meeting on the evening of 2nd November. David Rosen has provided advice on the subject on the BOF website Sport Ident Advice for Event Advisers and Controllers. Any queries to be discussed in the meeting should be forwarded to nikki@scottish-orienteering.org before 21st October to allow Robin time to consider the queries.
With another Grade C controllers course taking place in the Aviemore Area on 15th September, we thought it would be useful to hear from one of our controllers. So thank-you Lindsey for all your work controlling, among other things, and writing us the following article.
Following on from the updating of the list of SOA active controllers – which can be found at Club Toolkit – SOA list of qualified event controllers – the operations team at SOA have organised an event for controllers and planners.
The aim of the event is for controllers or planners to have an opportunity to come together and discuss controller’s conundrums. The focus will be on 2 or 3 real incidents which have taken place in the last year and discuss what actions could have been taken to avoid the incident occurring. The opportunity will be given to the controllers/ planners to raise other issues.
The lounge at Boat of Garten Community Hall has been booked for Saturday 8th October between 4pm and 6pm. The event is timed to allow everyone to compete at the Interlopers Middle Distance event at Loch Vaa before the event and there will be refreshments and cake! We look forward to seeing you there.
