Scottish Pentathlon
Strategic Plan 2024 - 2027
Our Vision
Our Purpose
Strategic Goals
More Participants
- Increase capacity & sustainability across the existing Hub structure
- Identify & agree new partnerships to support growth in existing & new Hubs
- Grow coach & volunteer capacity
- Investigate new Hubs both on the mainland and in Island Communities
- Through our events programme transition athletes to full membership
- Agree revised annual membership / participation targets
Sustainable Organisation
- Maintain consistent good governance, through robust reporting & effective management of policies & procedures
- Succession planning for the Chair & Board
- Maintain skills sets on Board against agreed skills matrix
- Grow our social media & communication channels, their reach & impact
- Maintain our strong relationship with PGB
- Develop partnerships with component sports at local & SGB / National level(s)
Engaged Communities
- Continue to build outreach programmes from existing Hubs
- Upscale the Borders, Edinburgh and Mull Hubs
- Progress 3 new Hubs
- Develop the concept of a Multi-Sport Academy through dialogues with an appropriate school/college
- Investigate new partnerships with to identify a host venue for a Regional Academy
Winning Athletes
- Build on existing competition calendar to provide more opportunities for all athletes
- Improve processes for the identification of talented athletes for inclusion in PGB talent programmes & selection for SP teams
- Roll out the new LR & OCR coaching qualifications
- Stage more National events (eg: National LR Championships at Oriam, Edinburgh 2022)
- Continue to support PGB with developing and implementing an athlete and coach pathway
Our Enabling Goals
People
Events
Organisation
Communication
Our Values
Inclusive
- We respect people, value diversity & are committed to equality
- We connect people
- We strive to learn & grow together
People Centred
- We value & support the contribution of volunteers in our sport
- We are athlete & team focussed
- We create Communities
Quality
- We strive for excellence through continuous improvement
- We are passionate in what we do
- We create positive impact
Openness
- We are committed to a culture of teamwork & collaboration
- We are honest & respectful
- We are accountable & transparent
How Will We Know If We Are Succeeding?
Structures and Pathways
SP has maintained strong partnerships with our key stakeholders sportscotland and Pentathlon GB (PGB) while also developing new relationships with universities, schools and community owned facilities to support our family of sports and delivery of our programmes, competitions and events.
Our long-term outcomes for investment from sportscotland are based across the core functions of “Development” and “Effective Organisation”.
Our work has focussed on the introduction of more sustainable regional Hubs, supporting local engagement to increase participation and transition this into formal membership.
We focus on Laser Run as the entry point to the sport, with opportunities to try and then to progress to other sports in the family, including fencing, shooting and OCR as this latter element is rolled out.
Our competition programme is based on individual Hub local events, leading to participation in National Competition (eg: Schools Biathlon, Laser Run and Biathle in 2023 – 2024). In 2024 and forward to 2027 we hope to realise and establish, through Pentathlon GB, opportunities for Obstacle Race training and competition
We also aim to increase our coaching capacity and through implementation of the new coaching framework, our aim in 2024 is to increase our tutor numbers to allow greater flexibility of delivery of qualifications and be less reliant on single access courses.
Finally, we continue to focus on implementing and exhibiting good governance, delivered through successful biennial audits and the achievement of progress in equality and safeguarding standards.
