Tag: sportscotland

Inspirational Edinburgh football coach crowned sportscotland Volunteer of the Year Lochend football coach David Pollacchi has been recognised as Volunteer of the Year at the 2022 sportscotland Coaching, Officiating and Volunteering (COV) Awards for his...

Portobello Sailing and Kayak Club (PSKC) are paddling towards a £155,000 fundraising target to create a permanent water sports hub after being awarded £77,625 from sportscotland. The new facility will allow the club to offer...

sportscotland's Sport Facilities Fund has awarded £240,000 to community projects in Edinburgh. Two projects in particular will benefit from the funding from National Lottery. City of Edinburgh Gymnastics Club will receive £100,000 to create...

sportscotland says their latest data shows that the national Active Schools programme continues to have a positive impact on children’s physical activity levels. There were 7.3 million visits made to activities across Scotland...

Next week councillors are set to appoint a contractor to deliver a new state-of-art Meadowbank Sports Centre for Edinburgh. It has been designed to meet the current and future needs of the local community...

New courts welcomed in with Exhibition tennis and drop-in taster sessions Edinburgh Leisure’s flagship tennis facility at Craiglockhart has been set up with six new outdoor tennis courts, having secured funding from Tennis Scotland and...

Pupils score coaching session with Edinburgh Rugby Stars Edinburgh Rugby's Ross Ford and Tom Brown delivered a coaching session to pupils from Broomhouse Primary School in Edinburgh in a new initiative led by sportscotland, the...

Sports in Scotland to receive additional support for grassroots through to performance The Scottish Government will increase sportscotland’s core funding by £2 million in 2018-19, from £29.7 million to £31.7 million, to prioritise the development...

Kaimes School has won a prestigious award from sportscotland for its involvement in sport at the school. The Gold School Sport Award is designed to encourage schools to improve sports education and encourage sporting...

Sheila Swan has been appointed as Curling’s Wheelchair Head Coach for the Scottish and British Wheelchair Curling programme. It has also been announced that two Performance Coaches, Nancy Smith and Viktor Kjell, have been appointed...

  Scottish Rugby’s Ian Rankin (President) and Nick Rennie (Head of Club Services) are joined by Steven Anderson (sportscotland) Ken Richardson and players from Linlithgow RFC to launch the Club Sustainability Fund Scottish Rugby Union President,...

The first public tennis courts to be built in the East of Edinburgh were officially opened this morning. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgC5kxIDulE?list=UUpyjaNvEF_ryiKTJ6QxCkIA] Pupils from Leith Primary and St Mary's RC Primary schools enjoyed some coaching on the new £80,000 courts just after they...

The City of Edinburgh Council has appointed a multi-disciplinary project team to start work on drawing up a range of options for Meadowbank Sports Centre and Stadium that will be put out to public...