The SKGB are pleased to announce that the following athletes have been selected to represent Scotland at the forthcoming WKF senior World Championships being held in Dubai this November.
Congratulations and good luck in your preparation for this prestigious event.
It is with great sadness we inform you of the passing of Bobby Morton, he sadly passed away earlier today (Wednesday 8th September) after a battle with cancer. Bobby was a long serving member of the SKGB and over the last few years had led our events team by organising some wonderful events for both the SKGB and the BKF.
Bobby, You will be greatly missed by many.
We send our condolences to his family, friends, students and everyone that knew him.
On Tuesday 3 August the First Minister provided an update to the Scottish Parliament on pandemic-related restrictions. It was confirmed that the whole of Scotland will move beyond level 0 from Monday 9 August, although the First Minister stressed this did not mean a return to life exactly as it was pre-pandemic with a number of mitigating measures remaining.
From the 30th June Disclosure Scotland will not accept paper PVG applications. Prior to the 30th June applicants had an SKGB application and a Disclosure Scotland application to complete.
As from 1st August 2021 the SKGB and PVG form will be one application to be sent to the SKGB office with the required documentation and payment. The SKGB office will then complete and submit an electronic application to Disclosure Scotland.
Details have been e-mail to all SKGB association chairpersons.
The National Kumite Coaches would like to congratulate the following individuals on their selection for the up and coming under 21 European Karate Championships in Finland. The coaches would also like to thank everyone who put their name forward for selection and we hope to see everyone who didn’t quite make it this time reapply for future events.
Cadet Male -52kg Lewis Bryson - Sakai Sport Karate.
Cadet Male -57kg Benjamin Packwood - Chris Ewing Karate Association.
Cadet Male +70kg Jack Cooper - All Styles Karate Federation.
Cadet Female -47kg Lottie Burnham - Chris Ewing Karate Association.
Cadet Female +54kg Anvi Pandit - All Styles Karate Federation.
Junior Male -55kg Adam Hamill - Shitokai Scotland.
Junior Male -76kg Scott Anderson - Chris Ewing Karate Association.
Junior Male +76kg Matthew Pratt - Sakai Sport Karate.
Junior Female -53kg Billie Ross - JKS Scotland.
Junior Female -59kg Kori Fital - Chris Ewing Karate Association.
Selections to Represent Great Britain (GBR) 2021 Olympic Qualification Tournament Paris 11th/12th/13th June 2021
The Selection Panel as named in the selection document Section 3.0 in accordance with the said criteria as outlined in Section 2.0 Athlete Selection Criteria, The basis of selection.
The highest ranked GBR athlete in the WKF Tokyo standings at the end of the qualification period stated by the WKF is the selected athlete.
Congratulations to: Jordan Szafranek and Greg Anderson.
We have recently passed the 12 month anniversary of the decision taken by government to lockdown society and try to suppress the virus. It has been a difficult year for all, however from my perspective, it has also been a huge learning curve. All of us have had to adapt to new working environments and ways of working and I would like to thank you for tackling the challenges with strong partnership and collaboration leading the way.
I would also like to pay tribute to the efforts of the members of the Strategic Forum for Sport and Physical Activity. Over recent months the forum members have committed significant time to discuss and plan an outline framework for the future of the sector to both increase resilience and help achieve the ambitions we all have. This work has been done in a truly collaborative spirit and representatives from SGBs, Local Authorities, Leisure Trusts/CLUK, Higher and Further Education, Student Sport, Public Health Scotland, Scottish Government and ourselves at sportscotland completed a tight document outlining direction and key actions. The forum identified four aims to strengthen resilience and help achieve ambition:
Better connections between national and local strategy and implementation
Better connections between sport and physical activity with health and wellbeing
Better engaged communities
Ensuring the financial viability of the sector
We look forward to working together to deliver against this direction of travel and involving everyone in this effort. There is much to play for.
We are developing new Equality Outcomes and we are encouraging partners to get involved in the consultation. Equality outcomes are only one, specific part of the equality work we do and we want our new Equality Outcomes to improve experiences for groups within these populations:
People living in poverty and low income
People living with mental health problems
People from diverse ethnic communities
Older people, over 50
We want to hear from people with a variety of work and life experiences. By sharing your views, you can help us develop outcomes that are targeted and reduce inequalities.
To help sportscotland understand the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on clubs, we are looking for feedback on how clubs have experienced and responded to the challenges they have faced during the past year.
Please encourage your partners and your network of clubs to take a few minutes to complete the survey via the link below – closing date is Monday 29 March 2021.
WEBINARS FOR CLUBS
In partnership with a number of partners, sportscotland will be hosting a series of online webinars to help support clubs over the coming months. The topics have been selected in response to feedback from across the club network and the first event An introduction to what funders want has been developed in partnership with Spirit of 2012 and will take place on Wednesday 21 April. Subsequent sessions will focus on Communications and Volunteer Management. If you would like to know more please contact Scott McGregor or click below to book.
#PLANETARYPROMISE
The National Lottery is asking organisations, individuals, athletes and others to make a #PlanetaryPromise on social media as part of their environment campaign between 19 - 23 April. Take a look at the toolkit which contains a helpful guide, examples of social media posts, graphics and a #PlanetaryPromise template for filling in your own promise.
Our monthly theme for April is Supporting the environment so we would like as many people as possible to get involved! It would be great if you could have a think about an achievable promise you could make, and encourage your networks and others to do the same.
Some examples might be – using fewer single-use plastic products, switching off devices once they are fully charged and not leaving them running overnight, cycling or walking instead of taking the car or reducing food waste. Find out more here.
JOIN US FOR #SPORTHOUR
The monthly Twitter chat is back on Monday 5 April with co-hosts Sustrans Scotland, The Daily Mile and Mya Thompson from our Young People’s Sport Panel supporting the discussion on supporting the environment.
The conversation will provide an opportunity to raise awareness of work going on throughout sport and physical activity to help support the environment and promote active travel. Please get involved by following the hashtag #SportHour on Monday 5 April from 9pm to 10pm.
STEP COUNT CHALLENGE
The popular Paths For All Step Count Challenge is back and will run for 8 weeks from 3 May.
Walking is a great way to support your physical and mental health and the challenge provides a programme to keep you motivated and a chance for you and your friends or colleagues to focus on something together as a team and get outdoors, walk more and feel good.
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) thanks stakeholders who took part in the consultation about the public disclosure of provisional suspensions and charges concerning athletes or athlete support personnel, who are alleged to have committed an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). The results of the consultation and additional discussion with interested parties were considered by the UKAD board at its February meeting, yesterday. The results of the consultation will be published tomorrow. Please find attached information about the Board’s decision:
• Embargoed press release: UKAD announces results of public consultation
• UKAD Policy of Provisional suspensions and charges
The SKGB office have restarted processing new PVG applications and Existing PVG Scheme Member Applications. Please contact your association Chairperson for application forms.
