Membership

Become a member of Triathlon Scotland and join the British Triathlon family!

Triathlon Scotland membership not only offers benefits for you such as a race licence, insurance and fantastic commercial discounts, but it also helps greatly to grow the sport in Scotland.

You can find out more about our membership packages here, what they offer, how much they cost, plus information about family memberships and upgrading.


Why growing the sport is so important and how your membership money helps!

Your membership money enables us to support clubs to create well-organised, pro-active clubs that provide a fantastic platform for members to make the most of the sport. Clubs provide members a place to train and socialise with like-minded people and are the heart of our sport. Running hand in hand with our clubs are our coaches, and your membership money helps us deliver CPD for coaches to allow them to provide the best coaching they can to their athletes.

We also support event organisers in the form of advice, guidance and our event permitting process. Choosing an event that has been permitted by Triathlon Scotland ensures that you are attending an event that is safe and fair and, hopefully, one that you will have fond memories for years to come. Technical Officials also play an important part in keeping events safe and fair, and your membership helps provide training and CPD for them. We want everyone to have the best swim, bike, run experience they can regardless of whether they are just starting out or have been competing for years.

Behind the scenes, we safeguard the sport including administering Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership. For our sport, all coaches and key volunteers working with children should be members of the scheme, managed by Disclosure Scotland, helping to ensure their suitability, making our sport as safe as possible. We also collect data and insight to understand what our members want and use this information to adapt our membership offering to suit everyone no matter where they are on the swim bike run journey. Working with the Equality Standards, we address the inequalities within our sport to help make our sport inclusive for all.


Got a question?

A full set of frequently asked questions is available here.  Alternatively, please call our membership team on 01786 466921.


More information on how your membership money helps!

Triathlon Scotland has five main business areas and the funds we raise through membership are substantially invested in the first four areas: organisation, participation, competition & events and education & development, in order to achieve our vision: to inspire great experiences through swim, bike and run.

Organisation – this is the office of Triathlon Scotland, administering membership applications, responding to membership and member enquiries, managing governance including Board meetings and annual returns and all communications relating to the sport.

Participation – this is our work in growing the sport of triathlon in Scotland by focusing on areas such as; supporting the existing club network, aiding the development of new clubs, providing opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to try triathlon, encouraging volunteering, and recognising the achievements of everyone involved through our annual awards.

Competition & Events – this is our work to support event organisers to deliver safe, high quality events through our race permitting procedures. We promote our Scottish National Championship events in partnership with event hosts, and supply medals, prize funds and branding. We also promote repeat participation through our Ranking Series and GO TRI events.

Education & Development – we provide training and development opportunities for people interested in coaching, officiating and race organising. Coaches are trained to gain UKCC qualifications and Technical Officials and Motorcycle Officials are supported on the British Triathlon Officiating Pathway. We also provide a series of conference events and development opportunities for all participants within triathlon throughout the year.

 

Our Partners

Triathlon Scotland is proud to work alongside the following partners and sponsors.

  • British Triathlon
  • sportscotland
  • University of Stirling
  • Equality in Sport
  • Winning Students Scotland
  • Big Lottery Fund
  • Big Bobble Hats
  • Kenny Girvan Photography
  • We Are a Living Wage Employer
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