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Scotland coaches join OSS Supporters to discuss sport post-lockdown

GREGOR Townsend and Shelley Kerr, the Scotland rugby and women's football head coaches respectively, will share their thinking on the impact on Scottish sport of…

David Ferguson23 June 2020

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Investment, joined-up thinking and friends are keys to building on cycling boom

SCOTLAND fell well short of government targets to have 10% of the population cycling to work and 10% of children cycling to school by 2020.…

David Ferguson17 June 2020

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Time to think about ‘feelings’ if we are to grow sport’s volunteer base

What is the emotional culture at your club - fun-loving or apathy? Are there too many paid 'professionals' in Scottish sport? How do sports cope…

David Ferguson10 June 2020

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Families are running through lockdown

On Global Running Day, appropriately, OSS has discovered research that suggests that more people have spent lockdown running and more youngsters across the UK are…

David Ferguson3 June 2020

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How to bring volunteers back to community sport: Webinar

Community Sport's Recovery: Growing Your Volunteers Wednesday 10 June 10am-11am SPORT relies heavily on volunteers, so it is no wonder that there is widespread concern…

David Ferguson2 June 2020

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Scottish sport to return from lockdown – the guidelines

SPORT is on its way back ... but still with 'physical' distancing as part of activity. The Scottish Government (Thursday 28 May) confirmed plans to…

David Ferguson21 May 2020

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The ‘new normal’ for school sport & PE

The Scottish Government has brought clarity to the return of schools across Scotland with an August 11, 2020 return date, and in the next OSS…

David Ferguson20 May 2020

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Lockdown and locked out but Scots swimmers find ways to keep going

LOCKDOWN may be locking Scots out of swimming pools and causing some real problems, but it shows little sign of limiting ambition among swimmers whose…

David Ferguson15 May 2020