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Sportscotland has appointed Forbes Dunlop, CEO of Scottish Swimming, as its new chief operating officer. Dunlop, who spent six years at Scottish Swimming, will take ... More

Meadowbank Stadium and sports centre in Edinburgh, which hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1970, is to be rebuilt at a cost of £47m, with extensive ... More

Community-based sport and physical activity projects in Scotland are in line for a cash investment thanks to a new programme aimed at changing lives and ... More

A new research report into the work of Sportscotland has found that participation programmes supported by the agency are having "a life-changing effect" on those ... More

An surge in the number of volunteers delivering sport sessions for school pupils has resulted in a five per cent increase of children taking part ... More

Sportscotland will invest £6m (US$8.5m, €7.7m) to establish 50 new Community Sports Hubs across the country by 2020. The national sports quango will plough £1.5m ... More

Companies bidding for sub-contractor contracts from sportscotland will have to offer their staff the Scottish Living Wage. The national agency for sport has become a ... More

A number of sports governing bodies in Scotland feel there is “too much focus” on equality, with senior staff and board members struggling to understand ... More

The £12m sportscotland National Centre Inverclyde – billed as the UK’s first “fully-inclusive” residential sports training facility – has been granted planning permission by the ... More

Around eight per cent of people in the East End of Glasgow have taken up a new sport – or are spending more time playing ... More

The final round of a Commonwealth Games legacy grants programme will see 34 Scottish community sports projects share £1.5m worth of funding. The grants constitute ... More

Last year’s Glasgow Commonwealth Games have helped provide impressive increases in participation levels across the 17 Scottish sports that featured at the Games. Figures from ... More

A total of 47 community sports projects across Scotland will share £2.4m from the Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund, the Scottish Government’s £10m pot to ... More

More than £600,000 worth of sports equipment, used at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, will be distributed across Scotland as part of legacy plans to ... More

Scotland’s first dedicated para-sports facility is to be built at the Sportscotland National Sports Centre Inverclyde in Largs, Ayrshire. The £9m development, the first of ... More

Sportscotland has launched a £10m, four-year funding plan which will create 50 new regional development posts for scottish governing bodies of sport (SGBs). The new ... More

An initiative to help former top-class athletes become coaches has been launched by sportscotland. The Coaching Futures initiative will see eight sports employ a retiring ... More

A £3.15m grant has been created to develop a Scotland-wide network of full-sized 3G pitches for youth football and rugby. The CashBack for Pitches Fund ... More

Sport Scotland has invited councils, educational institutions and other interested parties to bid to host the country’s first National Performance Centre for Sport. A steering ... More

Midlothian Snowsports Centre near Edinburgh, Scotland has reopened following a £600,000 redevelopment. Improvements at the centre include a new 210-metre slope, 60m of new nursery ... More

Image: Scottish schools are providing more PE lessons New figures published by the Scottish Government have revealed that schools across the country are delivering more ... More

Image: Work is due for completion in September Work has now begun on a £600,000 programme of improvements at Scotland's Midlothian Snowsports Centre in order ... More

Image: The audit will look at access to school facilities An audit of sports facilities within Scotland's school estate, together with public access to such ... More

Edinburgh's new-look Royal Commonwealth Pool is due to reopen to the public on 21 March, following a GBP37m renovation undertaken by Graham Construction. Funding for ... More