Scottish Sports Awards Event Sponsors

sportscotland

sportscotland is the national agency for sport. We are the lead agency for the development of sport in Scotland.

We passionately believe in the benefits of sport and the unique contribution it makes to Scotland’s economy, health and identity, supporting 50,000 jobs, providing people with skills for life and helping us get active.

We invest our expertise, our time and public funding in supporting and developing a world class sporting system at all levels; from schools and clubs, to high profile success stories on the world stage.

We work with partners to develop this sporting system, investing in and joining up the people, places, partnerships and planning that make sport happen. We see a Scotland where sport is a daily part of everyone’s life. In everything we do we act in the best interests of Scottish sport - putting sport first.

We are delighted to once again support these awards, which recognise achievement at all levels in sport, from grassroots to high performance.

For more information on sportscotland visit here.

Winning Students

What do current World Championship gold medal-winning swimmer Hannah Miley, World U23 triathlon medalist David McNamee and World Championship badminton Mixed Doubles medalist Imogen Bankier have in common?

Well, apart from being fantastic Scottish athletes who enjoyed great succcess this year, they are also all...students.

They are not alone, in fact colleges and universities across Scotland are packed with talented athletes combining their training and competition with their studies.

Supporting them all the way is Winning Students, Scotland's national student sports scholarships. As well as tailored funding support to cover everything from student accommodation to competition expenses, the scholarships provide academic flexibility to ensure students can achieve their sporting and academic goals.

Each year, the scholarships support around 100 athletes studying in 28 member colleges and universities nationwide. Winning Students has also helped to establish two national performance centres through close partnership working with governing bodies of sport.

Guided by an advisory board, the programme is managed by the University of Stirling as Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence, and funded by the Scottish Funding Council.

Winning Students is delighted to support the Sunday Mail and sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards 2012.

www.winningstudents-scotland.ac.uk www.facebook.com/winningstudents

Glasgow 2014

Glasgow 2014 is delighted to sponsor the Inspirational Performance award at this year's Sunday Mail sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards.

This event is one of the highlights of the sporting calendar and gives our athletes a chance to receive recognition for their endeavours.
There have been some truly inspiring achievements in the sporting world this year which rightly deserve proper recognition.
We are here to celebrate those accomplishments whether they have been on the track, in the water, on a field or if they have been team efforts or an individual's unique talent.

It is always an honour to participate in these awards and we are happy to be associated with them.

We would like to wish all the nominees in our category the very best of luck - to make it on to the shortlist for such a prestigious award is an achievement in itself.

With less than 1,000 days to go to the Opening Ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games we hope to see some many of our nominees - and fellow guests - involved in what will be the biggest sporting event Glasgow and Scotland has ever seen.

RBS Group

RBS is a proud supporter of the 2011 Scottish Sports Awards. Our partnership with the Awards forms part of a broader programme of support for grassroots sport. Indeed, community sport forms the cornerstone of our sponsorship programme.

This year's awards will deliver well-earned recognition both to our elite athletes and to excellence in community sport which often fails to gain the exposure and credit it deserves. That's why we support programmes such as Set4Sport.

Set4Sport - the brainchild of Judy Murray - is a collection of fun and inexpensive family games and exercises, designed to help children learn the core skills needed to play any sport in later life.

The programme is aimed at encouraging parents to play active games with their kids. As Judy, mother of Scottish tennis stars Jamie and Andy, says, "RBS has backed the boys in their careers for a long time, and they are now helping us bring the lessons of our Dunblane garden into every home."

Set4Sport is just one of a series of initiatives from RBS that uses the company's partnerships and sponsorships to deliver benefit to local communities.

RBS congratulates all nominees and winners at the Scottish Sport Awards 2011.

To learn more about Set4Sport, visit www.set4sport.com

Skyline Installations

Skyline are proud to be a category Sponsor for the Sunday Mail and Sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards, in our inaugural year of getting involved with these awards we believe in the importance of driving sport for the future development of our country and celebrating the massive individual successes have been achieved.

Skyline, based in Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire run by Robert & Pauline Bell is local business that is on the up, we are in partnership with a global media business called the AVC group and together we provide design, installation and maintenance services for all our customer's Sky and Aerial needs. We look after customers from all areas of Scotland and are proud of our record in delivering a customer service second to none.

This year we have moved premises to a new 20,000 square foot unit which contains a full size, fully functional house built inside the warehouse! With this we can now provide training facilities for any business needs as well as using it alongside our suite of fully fitted training rooms to train our own in house engineers to the highest level. Other new areas of our business include Skyline Energy which focuses on renewable energy, we have just achieved our MCS approval, which allows us to deliver the same levels of customer service in this new and exciting area. Principally we will start with Solar PV installations but will expand the business as we go forward into 2012.

We are shortly to open the Skyline Trade Counter to assist and supply equipment to all levels of engineers providing a service to their customers, training will also be a principal area of this trade counter and we will provide support to our trade customers that will be one of the highest in the industry.

As you can see this is an exciting time for all of us here at Skyline and we look forward to sharing our success with those fantastic nominees who have made it to these prestigious awards, we can all agree that with hard work anything is possible.