As 2006 draws to a close sportscotland is delighted to announce a further £1.275 million investment to improve sports facilities for three communities across Scotland, taking this year’s total investment in facilities to over £15.6 million.

Swimming in Scotland has never been more buoyant and that success in and out of the water has been recognised by sportscotland.

Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson today welcomed a £7m cash injection for a new regional sports facility in the north east.

Governing bodies of sport the length and breadth of the UK will converge on Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on Wednesday 6 December 2006 for a seminar as part of the ongoing Equity Standard support programme.

Scottish tennis sensation Andy Murray will return to his roots on Monday 27 November to open a £1.3 million extension to the Scottish National Tennis Centre at the University of Stirling.

sportscotland has been trialling a new innovative approach to the delivery of sport at a local level through the Sports Partnership programme in Central and Tayside & Fife and is pleased to announce investment of £705,064 for these partnerships.

With the Scottish summer well and truly over, planning is well underway to assist Scotland's snowsport athletes in their quest for success at the next Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 and beyond.

sportscotland is committed to promoting a safe environment for children taking part in sport in Scotland. In recognition of this we are pleased to announce an investment of £47,500 to CHILDREN 1ST enabling them to continue to deliver their Child Protection in Sport Service to support Scottish Governing Bodies.

Kate Cullen, Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallist, Cycling, joined a number of East of Scotland Institute of Sport supported athletes and Heriot-Watt University Sports Scholars on Tuesday 24 October to officially open the newly created Strength and Conditioning Centre at Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh Campus.

The community of Fintry in Dundee will be celebrating with the official opening of the new multi use games area at Cheviot Crescent this Saturday 14 October.

Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson today welcomed the news that sportscotland is continuing its quest to improve Scotland’s sports facilities with an investment of nearly half a million pounds from its Building for Sport programme.

Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair of sportscotland today announced an investment of £90,000 to Netball Scotland.

Following more than a year of dedicated work in the field of sports equity, the Scottish Hockey Union, Scottish Swimming and the Royal Yachting Association Scotland, have been awarded the Foundation level of the Equity Standard: A Framework for Sport.

Julia Bracewell, Chair of sportscotland today announced an investment of £26,000 to Scottish Fencing.

Supported by a Lottery award of £146,750 from sportscotland’s Sports Facilities programme, the new academy includes six mini holes, a driving range, short game and practice areas. Although also open to senior members, the new tailored junior facilities will provide the club’s youngsters with a quality introduction to golf.

sportscotland is continuing its support to the six Area Institutes of Sport with a Lottery funded award of £1,021,500 for the next 12 months to help develop the country’s most promising young sporting talent.

There will be a Wimbledon theme at the official opening of the new resurfaced tennis courts at Glenfarg Community Amateur Sports Club this Sunday (3 September), with a ‘Strawberries and Cream’ Tea Party.

Two governing bodies representing martial arts in Scotland have received a combined £43,000 in sportscotland funding.

Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair, sportscotland, today announced a sportscotland investment of £315,000 to the governing body of gymnastics in Scotland.

Judy Murray, former Scottish National Tennis Coach and mother of rising Scottish tennis star Andy Murray will officially open Dunfermline Tennis Club’s three new all-weather courts this Saturday (19 August).

sportscotland welcomes the draft policy SPP11 Physical Activity and Open Space issued by the Scottish Executive (10 August),which places a presumption against development on existing valued open space.

sportscotland today announced annual funding to the sport of amateur boxing.

sportscotland today announced Lottery funding totalling £189,952 to the Scottish Canoe Association (SCA) to support key areas of the sport’s development and performance plans.

Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair, sportscotland, today announced £377,500 to the sport of badminton in Scotland.

Following almost a year of dedicated work in the field of sports equity, sportscotland, the national agency for sport in Scotland, is pleased to announce it has been awarded the Foundation level of the Equity Standard: A Framework for Sport.

Scotland’s top men’s bowlers, members of the Scottish Bowling Association (SBA) and Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair, sportscotland, took to the bowling greens at the Sighthill Bowling Club in Edinburgh today to officially launch and celebrate the SBA’s new Strategic Plan.

Members of Scotland’s national Cerebral Palsy (CP) football squad, soon to head to the European Championships in Ireland, were at Hampden today to celebrate sportscotland funding of £215,000 to Scottish Disability Sport (SDS).

The sport of Rugby League in Scotland is set to benefit from a sportscotland award of £30,000, today announced Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair, sportscotland.

sportscotland continues its mission to enhance sports facilities across the country with an investment of £311,500 in two Scottish communities.

Dumfries YMCA and St Michael’s Cricket Club will be celebrating with the official opening of the new MacLeod Pavilion at Kingholm Playing Fields this Sunday 9 July by Gretna FC’s Assistant Coach David Irons.

The Isle of Skye community of Kyleakin will be celebrating this Friday 7 July with opening a new grass sports pitch in the village.

sportscotland is helping Scotland’s future sportsmen and women on the pathway to success following an award of £254,681 for a new regional strength and conditioning centre at the University of Dundee.

The sport of volleyball is set to benefit from £155,000 of sportscotland investment, today announced Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair of sportscotland.

sportscotland today announced annual funding to the sport of table tennis in Scotland.

The sport of squash is set to benefit from £218,000 of sportscotland investment, today announced Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair of sportscotland.

Young Scots have more opportunities to participate in golf than ever before. That was the message today from Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson as she opened the UK’s first purpose-built children’s course.

North Berwick Tennis Club will be celebrating with the official opening of its upgraded floodlit courts this Sunday (18 June).

The curling season has come to an end, but plans for next year are well in place thanks to today’s announcement of £350,181 in sportscotland funding to the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) by Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson.

sportscotland continues to honour its pledge to improve sports facilities for communities across Scotland with an investment of just over £600,000 from the Building for Sport Programme. This investment of £629,307 will see communities benefit in Islay, Hamilton, Saltcoats, Greenock and Glenrothes.

Changing patterns in sports participation and rising customer expectations all point to the need for a new approach to sports facilities planning and investment.

Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson today announced annual sportscotland funding totalling £365,187 to Scottish Cycling, Weightlifting Scotland and the Scottish Target Shooting Federation.

The Scottish Equestrian Association (SEA) has received £94,000 in sportscotland funding. The investment, of which £44,000 is Lottery funding, will go towards coaching and volunteering, player improvement and organisational and club development.

Scottish Equestrian Association, Triathlon Scotland and Basketball Scotland have become the first three Scottish governing bodies of sport to be awarded the Foundation level of the Equity Standard: A Framework for Sport.

sportscotland Glenmore Lodge employees – and husband and wife – Pauline and Phil Sanderson have become the first married couple from the UK to successfully summit Mt Everest together.

Patricia Ferguson, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, today announced that sportscotland’s HQ will relocate to the east end of Glasgow. The headquarters will be sited within the new National Indoor Sports Arena which is being built as part of the Executive’s National and Regional Sports Facilities Strategy.

Spring is in full bloom, and there’s no better time to get outdoors and get active. And a number of governing bodies in Scotland, representing waterskiing, orienteering, sub aqua and mountain training, have had their annual awards from sportscotland funding, totalling £148,000.

Spring is in full bloom, and there’s no better time to get outdoors and get active. And a number of governing bodies in Scotland, representing waterskiing, orienteering, sub aqua, rowing and mountain training, have had their annual awards from sportscotland funding, totalling £209,182.

The Heineken Cup Final, Murrayfield 2005 took top honours at the Scottish Business in Sport Dinner in Glasgow last night (Thursday 4 May). They won the 'Best Sponsorship of a Sporting Event' category sponsored by EventScotland and then went on to scoop the overall 'Scottish Sport Sponsorship of the Year Award 2006'. The top award was presented by Patricia Ferguson MSP Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport and David Graham, Head of the Sports Business Group for title sponsors Shepherd+ Wedderburn.

Olympic skier Alain Baxter will officially open Bearsden Ski Club’s new facilities this Saturday (6 May). The new snowboard park, two nursery slopes and a new clubhouse were built with the help of a sportscotland Lottery award of £200,000 from the Building for Sport Programme.

Stenhouse Community Bowling Club will be celebrating with the official opening of their clubhouse extension this Saturday (6 May).

Coaches from the East of Scotland are to come together this weekend for a regional coaching conference. Entitled 'Coaching Counts 2006', the East of Scotland Coaching Conference is being held at Bathgate Academy, West Lothian on Sunday 23 April and will offer a quality coach development programme to local and regional coaches.

A number of governing bodies of sport in Scotland, from angling to handball to tug of war, are to benefit from sportscotland annual funding.

Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson took to the pitch today at a National Cricket Academy Easter camp to announce a £317,000 sportscotland investment in Cricket Scotland.

Great Britain’s wheelchair curling team is to return home from Turin, Italy tomorrow complete with the silver medals they won on the weekend.

triathlonscotland, the governing body for triathlon, duathlon and multi-sport endurance disciplines in Scotland, has received a sportscotland financial boost of £167,676.

Dumfries and Galloway is to have a new a state-of-the art sport facility backed by £1.25 million from sportscotland, Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson announced today.

Over 650 delegates from across Scotland, the majority of whom are Active Schools coordinators and managers, gathered today in Glasgow for the inaugural Active Schools Network Conference.

In time for the new playing season, a funding boost for shinty from sportscotland was announced today by Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson. The Camanachd Association, the sport’s governing body, will receive £95,000 to help the game’s continued growth.

Scottish Hockey is to benefit from a major cash injection. Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson today announced a £639,000 sportscotland investment in the Scottish Hockey Union (SHU) which will support players at all levels.

The Royal Yachting Association Scotland (RYAS) has received a sportscotland capital injection of £299,750 that will benefit sailors of all levels and from coast to coast.

sportscotland continues to honour its pledge to improve sports facilities for communities across Scotland with an investment of just over £1 million from the Building for Sport Programme. This investment of £1,080,000, of which £580,000 is sportscotland Lottery funding, will see communities benefit in Edinburgh, Banff and Achiltibuie.

Excitement is mounting as Scotland's members of Team GB make their final preparations for the 2006 Winter Olympics. Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson was at Braehead Curling Rink today to meet some of the athletes and wish them well ahead of the Games in Turin.

Swimming in Scotland today received a sportscotland cash injection of £670,000 that will benefit swimmers at all levels across the country.

Scotland’s top athletes are set to benefit from an enhanced strength and conditioning network, following an investment of £383,583 from the sportscotland Lottery fund to provide new strength and conditioning facilities across the six Scottish Area Institutes of Sport.