At Haddington Running Club we are proud to be affiliated with Scottish Athletics.
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Scottish Athletics (Scottish Athletics Ltd) is the National Governing Body for Athletics in Scotland. A company limited by guarantee (established 2001), Scottish Athletics is affiliated to UK Athletics, which is in turn affiliated to World Athletics.
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We are in practice an organisation made up of our member clubs. There are approximately 150 athletics clubs across Scotland – offering opportunities for people of all ages to try out, train, embrace and compete in the various disciplines of athletics – and at all levels from jogging (through our jogscotland network) to Olympic and Commonwealth Games levels. As an organisation, our structure and business is to a large degree controlled by the Memorandum and our Articles of Association.
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The Articles are regularly updated at the Annual General Meeting, whilst the Memorandum remains unchanged since 2003. In broad terms, the remit of Scottish athletics is to:
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- Foster, develop and control the sport of athletics in Scotland
- Take responsibility for all athletic teams representing Scotland
- Promote annual championships and other competitions
- Establish and enforce rules for competition, and
- Advance and safeguard the interests of athletics in Scotland.
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To find out more, you can read Building a Culture of Success 2023-27 – A strategy for athletics in Scotland 2023-2027.
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Other relevant documents include the following (and we kindly ask all Haddington Members to read and follow them all)
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Adult-Safeguarding-Policy-2023.pdf (scottishathletics.org.uk)
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Our Welfare Officer contact is welfare@haddingtonrunning.club