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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.
Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson today welcomed a £7m cash injection for a new regional sports facility in the north east.
Swimming in Scotland today received a sportscotland cash injection of £670,000 that will benefit swimmers at all levels across the country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair, sportscotland, today announced £377,500 to the sport of badminton in Scotland.
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.
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).
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.
Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson today announced annual sportscotland funding totalling £365,187 to Scottish Cycling, Weightlifting Scotland and the Scottish Target Shooting Federation.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Swimming in Scotland has never been more buoyant and that success in and out of the water has been recognised by sportscotland.
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.
Julia Bracewell, Chair of sportscotland today announced an investment of £26,000 to Scottish Fencing.
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.
Great Britain’s wheelchair curling team is to return homefrom Turin, Italy tomorrow complete with the silver medals they won on the weekend.
Former British Amateur champion Gordon Sherry will cut the ribbon to officially open Bishopbriggs Golf Club’s new academy this Thursday (7 September).
A number of governing bodies of sport in Scotland, from angling to handball to tug of war, are to benefit from sportscotland annual funding.
Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair, sportscotland, today announced a sportscotland investment of £315,000 to the governing body of gymnastics in Scotland.
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.
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.
The Isle of Skye community of Kyleakin will be celebrating this Friday 7 July with opening a new grass sports pitch in the village.
Two governing bodies representing martial arts in Scotland have received a combined £43,000 in sportscotland funding.
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.
sportscotland today announced annual funding to the sport of table tennis in Scotland.
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.
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.
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.
North Berwick Tennis Club will be celebrating with the official opening of its upgraded floodlit courts this Sunday (18 June).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Changing patterns in sports participation and rising customer expectations all point to the need for a new approach to sports facilities planning and investment.
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.
The sport of volleyball is set to benefit from £155,000 of sportscotland investment, today announced Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair of sportscotland.
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.
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. The focus for this investment is the creation of new all-weather pitches and quality changing facilities which sportscotland recognises as essential for the development of sport at grass roots level.
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