Tag: Community Strides

We are sad to be saying goodbye this week to two members of the jogscotland team, Laura Kirkland and Andrea Gavin. The pair joined us in November 2017 as Communities Project Coordinator and Participation Coordinator, both working to help establish new jogscotland groups in communities that lacked them. Highlights of that project included three new […]

 “Thanks to everyone from the jogscotland community – you do phenomenal work every day of the week, all year round, so thank you.” – Mark Munro With just a few days remaining until scottishathletics CEO Mark Munro moves on to a new role at UK Athletics, he has paid tribute to the togetherness of the […]

We’re delighted that our Saheliya Community Strides project has been recognised at this evening’s Scottish Women in Sport awards. The project won the Active Scotland – Community Sport Champion – Senior award for its work to help women from diverse communities in Edinburgh benefit from being active. Project lead Andrea Gavin took the group online […]

jogscotland was honoured to be presented with the Frame Innovation in Sport Award at the Scottish Women in Sport Awards on 8 November. We were delighted to receive the recognition of all the hard work that has been carried out by jog leaders, joggers and staff in recent months – and all the enjoyment had […]

jogscotland has been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s Scottish Women in Sport Awards. The news is recognition of huge amounts of dedication and hard work by our jog leaders, joggers and staff across the country. jogscotland as a whole has been shortlisted for the Frame Innovation in Sport award, and our jogging group at […]

We are delighted to announced that jogscotland, working in partnership with SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health), is to benefit from a two-year grant from the Changing Lives Fund. The funding will enable us to improve the number of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities participating in jogscotland programmes. The new project, called […]