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People all over Scotland will have greater opportunity to fight the festive flab in 2001 with the revelation that over £30m of Lottery and exchequer funds have been invested by sportscotland over the past year, helping it to fulfil its aim of making more people more active, more often.
Communities all over Scotland are to benefit from better access to quality sports facilities, as part of a £4.6m package of Lottery funding from sportscotland aimed at getting more people more active, more often.
Members of Langlands Golf Club in East Kilbride will tomorrow see their new clubhouse finally opened by ex-Scotland football ace and TV personality Ally McCoist.
sportscotland today announced £1.2m of Lottery Fund support over the next four years to enable the establishment and operation of the Area Institute of Sport network, aimed at supporting our top Scots performers and nurturing local youngsters coming through.
Bank of Scotland today joined forces with Scottish Swimming, Sportsmatch, the Institute of Sport and Recreation Management and Scotland's local authorities to launch the largest and most comprehensive ever scheme for Scotland's youngsters in the water.
Cameron McNeish, one of Scotland’s best known mountain walkers, climber, broadcaster, author and journalist will officially open the Bridge of Orchy Project on Friday, marking the completion of the largest Rural Enhancement Project ever undertaken by North Argyll Development Agency, the Local Enterprise Trust.
Members of the Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire regional junior curling squads will hold their first lottery funded training session of the season at Hamilton Ice Rink this weekend.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) flag was raised today in the shadow of the Cairngorm mountains in a ceremony to mark the accreditation of sportscotland National Centre Glenmore Lodge as a centre of excellence for the sport of biathlon.
St Mirren Football Club will be winners regardless of the score in this Saturday’s crunch game against Raith Rovers, as the day sees the official opening of their brand new Love Street Stand.
sportscotland today announced a cash boost of almost £1/2m for Scottish sports men and women, including many of the young athletes who picked up medals in the first Millennium Commonwealth Youth Games, held two weeks ago in Edinburgh.
The coach of Paralympic gold medallists Kenneth Cairns and Margaret McEleny was amongst the winners at last night's Scottish Coach of the Year Awards. Eddie McCluskey, who coaches at Port Glasgow Otters swim club, won the Male Coach category.
Providing some pre-Christmas cheer, sport scotland has announced over £100,000 of lottery-funded support for more of Scotland's top sporting performers.
A five year long struggle for tennis facilities in Kettleholm, Dumfries and Galloway, will this weekend finally come to an end when St Mungo Tennis Club’s new facilities are officially opened.
sportscotland is supporting the next generation of successful cyclists in the latest round of Talented Athlete Programme (TAP) awards totalling over £170,000.
sportscotland is sad to announce the death of Fred Harper who passed away from cancer on Monday 24 July 2000. Fred was Principal of sportscotland's national centre at Glenmore Lodge in Aviemore for 16 years in the 1970s and 80s and was former President of the British Mountain Guides.
The future of Scottish boxing will be decided on Saturday 12 February 2000 when Scotland’s amateur boxing clubs vote on whether to accept their Interim Management Team’s recommendations for the establishment of a new body to run the sport in Scotland.
Scotland's top seven disabled anglers will compete for honours in an International Fly Fishing Competition for people with a disability, at the Lake of Menteith, Stirling, on 26th and 27th June.
Ian Rae has been appointed as Scotland's first National Coach for Golf, with the help of sportscotland's Lottery Fund. A £210,000 award over four years will help the Scottish Golf Union to meet the costs of appointing Rae, who only last month won the ‘Best Professional Coach’ category at sportscotland's 'Coach of the Year Awards' last month and is currently Head Coach at Scotland's Lottery funded National Golf Centre.
Twenty eight Scottish sportsmen and women are Lottery ‘winners’ today, following an announcement of Talented Athlete Programme awards totalling over £140,000 by sportscotland Lottery Fund.
Sponsorship plays a vital role in the survival and development of much of Scottish sport. In 1992 the government introduced SPORTSMATCH as an incentive to encourage more businesses to back amateur sport.
Golf star and former Ryder Cup Captain, Bernard Gallacher, will help proceedings go with a swing tomorrow as he tees off at a brand new pay-as-you-play golf course in West Lothian.
sportscotland underlined the strength of its commitment to developing sporting opportunities for Scotland's island communities with the announcement today (Monday) of a half million pound investment in the construction of a sports centre in the Western Isles.
World Indoor Gold medallist (Toronto, 1993), and Scottish 800m record holder, Tom McKean will this weekend help Helensburgh Amateur Athletic Club celebrate a welcome addition by opening its brand new clubhouse. The clubhouse was part-funded by a sportscotland Lottery Fund award of £26,523 and is situated adjacent to Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh. The total cost of the new development was £169,000.
As part of an initiative to give more young people with a disability a chance to enjoy sport, Highland Disability Sport are organising a 'come and try' sports opportunity this Saturday in Inverness. The Highland Junior Festival of Sport is open to all youngsters with a physical disability or visual impairement, between the ages of 5 and 16.
The first ever Millennium Commonwealth Youth Games were officially declared open tonight amidst the splendour of the world famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle, by HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and President of the Commonwealth Games Federation.
Six Scottish players currently competing for selection for the GB Olympic Hockey Team have received a boost in their preparations with the announcement of their selection for the Scottish Institute of Sport. The five women and one man are part of a group of 27 top Scots at Senior and U21 level who have been chosen to benefit from a wide ranging programme of support services aimed at helping them achieve greater success at international level.
Members of Alness Golf Club are set to celebrate the official opening of their upgraded course and clubhouse, with the help of sportscotland’s Lottery Fund. After five years of hard work by Club members, the community of Alness can now enjoy an extended 18 hole golf course and modern clubhouse.
Two years out from the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Scotland intends to be ahead of the game by putting strategic plans in place to give the team the best possible chance of success.
sportscotland continued to fulfil its commitment to 'levelling the playing field' with the announcement today that it is to invest £1.1 million in developing opportunities for sport in rural Scottish communities.
The Lanarkshire & Lothian Soaring Club (hang gliding & paragliding) will this weekend celebrate the purchase of their own flying site, with the help of sportscotland Lottery Fund.
Members of Loch Earn Sailing Club are one step closer this weekend to achieving their aim of being recognised as a Royal Yachting Association training centre.
sportscotland's lottery fund has awarded 73,700 pounds to a highly successful Tayside Youth Sport Programme, which is now into its fourth year of funding.
sportscotland Lottery Fund today announced further funding to help create sporting successes of the future, with awards to three more groups of talented young athletes.
Scotland's cricketers have received the backing of sportscotland Lottery Fund to help them in their preparations for the European Championships in Glasgow in July.
Continuing its programme of investing in developing our top Scottish performers, sportscotland today announced lottery support for our ice skaters and curlers to help them prepare for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Lumphanan Golf Club in Aberdeenshire will this weekend celebrate the completion of its course upgrade, made possible with the help of a sportscotland Lottery Fund award, with a gala party.
A twenty year long dream by residents of Edinburgh’s Southside and Old Town to build a local sports centre is one step closer to realisation today with the announcement of a half million pound cash injection from sportscotland Lottery Fund.
Seventeen talented young golfers hoping to follow in the footsteps of Open Champion Paul Lawrie took one step in the right direction today with the announcement that they are to receive Lottery support from sportscotland.
Scottish squash sisters, Gillian and Pamela Nimmo, are among the latest top athletes to receive Talented Athlete Programme (TAP) awards from sportscotland Lottery Fund.
Scottish weightlifting reached new heights today with the announcement that Lottery funding is to help launch the first ever Junior Development Programme for their sport.
Members of St Margaret’s Hope Bowling Club will this weekend celebrate the official opening of their redeveloped bowling facilities, made possible with the help of sportscotland Lottery Fund.
sportscotland is continuing to provide increased sporting opportunities for Scottish school children, with the announcement that Lottery funds will be used to employ school sport co-ordinators at 15 more schools across the country.
Ahead of the start of the new school year, a local school is to benefit from an injection of National Lottery funds. St Joseph’s College in Dumfries has received an award of £9,140 (over three years) from sportscotland Lottery Fund to help fund the appointment of a School Sport Co-ordinator.
Ahead of the start of the new school year, a local school is to benefit from an injection of National Lottery funds. Milne’s High School in Fochabers has received an award of £10,175 (over three years) from sportscotland Lottery Fund to help fund the appointment of a School Sport Co-ordinator.
A local school is set to benefit from an injection of National Lottery funds to help develop more opportunities for sport. Lockerbie Academy in Dumfries and Galloway has received an award of £9,142 (over two years, 11 months) from sportscotland Lottery Fund to help fund the appointment of a School Sport Co-ordinator.
Two schools in the Inverclyde area are set to benefit from an injection of National Lottery funds to help develop more opportunities for sport, it was announced today by sportscotland.
Ahead of the start of the new school year, fourteen local schools are to benefit from an injection of National Lottery funds. Renfrewshire Council has received an award of £130,200 (over three years) from sportscotland Lottery Fund to help fund the appointments of School Sport Co-ordinators.
Eight schools in the Shetland Islands are set to benefit from an injection of National Lottery funds to help develop more opportunities for sport, it was announced today by sportscotland.
Time: 1.00pm Venue: Kingussie Shinty Club, Kingussie (across track from railway station, next to football field) Details: Shinty's programme for developing its younger players received a major boost from sportscotland today with the announcement of a lottery award of up to £15,000 to the Camanachd Association.
With exactly four months to go until the first day of competition, Games Patron, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Eric Milligan, today hosted the official launch of the Millennium Commonwealth Youth Games at The City Chambers, Edinburgh, chaired by Recreation Convener, Councillor Steve Cardownie.
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