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SFA launch scheme to help clubs reduce energy costs

The Scottish FA and Zero Waste Scotland have teamed up to offer free environmental support to football clubs across the country, in a move they…

David Ferguson14 September 2020

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Scottish Sport and Civic Society (Pt4)

Towards a manifesto for sport in civic Scotland By CHARLIE RAEBURN (OSS Founder & Chairman) In this final article in my recent series, which seeks…

David Ferguson11 September 2020

Community Sport Delivery COVID-19 OSS News School & Community Access Sport Participation

Funding brought forward for Scottish sport

SPORTS across Scotland have welcomed extra funding announced by sportscotland to help sport recover from the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, and urged all to help…

David Ferguson4 September 2020

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School sport given high priority in England

SPORT England and the UK Government have confirmed that children will be given access to sport activity as a priority on their return to school…

David Ferguson2 September 2020

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Scottish Sport in Civic Society 2020 Series (Pt 3)

A future of opportunity for Scotland By CHARLIE RAEBURN Sport increasingly does not stand alone. There are many new providers, from the commercial world to…

David Ferguson28 August 2020

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Scottish Sport in Civic Society 2020 Series (Pt2)

Same ingredients required to strengthen civic society and quality of life By CHARLIE RAEBURN Last week I started to share thoughts with you all on…

David Ferguson20 August 2020

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Scottish Sport in Civic Society 2020 Series (Pt1)

'Everything will be OK (if we) look after each other' By CHARLIE RAEBURN This sign in the window of an art gallery in Edinburgh stopped…

David Ferguson13 August 2020

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Golf leading way in re-thinking future for Scottish sport

COVID-19 will ravage the sport, leisure and recreation in Scottish communities, with a raft of facilities expected to either never re-open or close in 2020-21.…

David Ferguson9 August 2020

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PM now listening as research links weight to Covid deaths

THE SCALE of death and illness experienced across the UK as a result of coronavirus could have been prevented had we taken the other pandemic…

David Ferguson27 July 2020

Community Sport Delivery COVID-19 OSS News OSS News Posts Sport Participation

Scotland’s sport and leisure landscape facing widespread closures

By DAVID FERGUSON THE COVID-19 lockdown was expected to create long-term health and wellbeing issues, but the extent of that impact is beginning to emerge…

David Ferguson23 July 2020