Talented athletes from across the Highlands are being supported through the latest round of the Highland Athlete Travel Award Scheme (ATAS) delivered through a partnership between sportscotland and High Life Highland. Featured in the second round of funding for 2024 are 12 talented Highland athletes competing at regional, national, and international level in sports including… Read more »Read more
Golspie High School was the venue for the recent annual East Sutherland Schools Sports Association (ESSSA) Benchball Tournament for primary four and five pupils. Seven out of eight local schools were represented with around 70 pupils in total attending! A dozen teams were entered – five girls teams, four boys teams and three mixed teams… Read more »Read more
World Menopause Day: 18th October 2024 High Life Highland is reaching out to women across the region to encourage more of them to experience the benefits of keeping active as a way of navigating the menopause – before, during and after. Today marks World Menopause Day (Friday 18th October), which aims to raise awareness of… Read more »Read more
After receiving an overwhelming number of nominations, High Life Highland can now reveal its shortlist for the i-care ‘People’s Choice Award’. The Charity’s annual i-care awards, sponsored by Technogym, are designed to recognise and celebrate the great successes that the charity’s staff and volunteers achieve every day to make life better for the people of… Read more »Read more
The Scottish Youth Parliament has welcomed a new Highland member following its recent by election for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency area. Jake MacCulloch from Dingwall has been successful in the by-election and will now represent young people in his area, bringing their issues to relevant platforms over his term as a Member of… Read more »Read more
It was back in August when High Life Highland’s Archive Service was announced as Record Keeping Service of the Year 2024 but it’s only now that the busy team of archivists have been able to come together to celebrate. The Archive and Records Association (ARA) Excellence Awards, took place on 29th August in Birmingham with the Highland Archive… Read more »Read more
By Emma Thomson, High Life Highland’s Business Development Manager Reading the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development’s Health & Wellbeing at Work report, it is worrying to read that businesses reported the highest rate of sickness absence in a decade last year, at 7.8 days per employee per year. However, it is equally encouraging to see… Read more »Read more
Fresh from her stunning performance in Paris, Paralympic canoeist, Hope Gordon has been paying a visit to local schools in her home county to show off her silver medal! Dornoch Academy and several local primary schools were delighted to receive a visit and get the opportunity to hear all about Hope’s sporting journey and ask… Read more »Read more
The annual Nairn Active Schools Group golf tournament took place last week with the young golfers from Millbank Primary School taking home the silverware! Millbank came 1st with 130, followed by Cawdor on 136, Auldearn on 157 and Rosebank on 169. Deanna Lundie, the High Life Highland Active Schools Coordinator said: “Despite the really challenging… Read more »Read more
It’s Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week (30th September to 6th October) and High Life Highland has revealed that female participation in sports and physical activity within its Active Schools programme is higher in the west compared with other areas, with Active Schools also celebrating its 20th anniversary this term. High Life Highland is… Read more »Read more
