Scottish Orienteering Association

Governance and organisation

The SOA's governing body is composed of President Roger Scrutton and directors in seven areas. The seven areas are Development, Marketing & Communications, Operations, Performance, Partnerships, Secretary and Treasurer. All members of the governing body are volunteers. The volunteers are supported by four salaried staff in the roles of Professional Officer, a Development Officer & two Part-Time Regional Development Officers. Due to the high volunteer to paid staff ratio, much of the work such is undertaken by volunteers.

The Associations membership is roughly 1,400 who act as volunteers, organising and staging events. Of the members many also coach and are members of SOA affiliated local clubs of which there are 18 local and 4 university.

Membership

The Associations membership is roughly 1,400.

Local clubs

These clubs are the Scottish clubs listed on the SOA's website.

Scottish Schools Orienteering Association

There is a Scottish Schools Orienteering Association which is abbreviated to SSOA. The SSOA's main aims are to encourage schools to introduce orienteering to either the formal or informal curriculum and to organise an annual festival where these skills can be tested. This annual event, which took place on a Sunday, was until 1994 the Scottish Schools Orienteering Championships. The Annual Schools' Festival now runs on the first Friday of June and is called Scottish Schools Orienteering Festival(SSOF).In 2008 the SSOA held the World Schools' Championships in Edinburgh. The 2014 SSOF is being held at Drumpellier CP, Coatbridge on the first Friday in June 2014.

The Organisation also has four major partners, Scottish Schools Sport Federation, International School Sport Federation, SOA and British Schools Orienteering Association.