BRITISH HANDBALL TO RECEIVE UK SPORT FUNDING
The British Handball Association is to receive up to £375,000 over the four-year Paris 2024 Olympic Games cycle (2021-2024) from the UK Sport ‘National Squads Support Fund’.
Sport to Help Nation's Recovery
Minister for Sport, Mairi Gougeon, and leading figures from Scottish sport have met to discuss the ongoing response to COVID-19 and the role sport and physical activity will play in the nation’s recovery.
International Transfer Certificate
The EHF have launched a new online International Transfer system, which makes the international player transfer process more efficient. Therefore, we now require all players who do not have a British Passport and who have not done so already, to be transferred to the Scottish Handball Association.
Scottish Women & Girls in Sport Week
We stepped up our involvement with the Scottish Women & Girls in Sport Week (24th to 30th October) this year. We profiled prominent female figures in the Scottish Handball community and ran a social media competitions to spread awareness of the sport and to encourage schools to give handball a shot. We wanted to share female handball players' experiences to showcase what can be achieved as a female handball player in scotland whilst also opening up a dialogue regarding views on current barriers to women participating in the sport.
Celebrating EHF Challenge Cup 2019
We threw back to 1 year ago, when we held the first European Handball matches in Scotland for over 25 years! This was a proud occasion highlighting the progress of Livingston Handball and other Scottish clubs in recent years.