East Lothian Council’s Sports Development Team 
8 sports specific development officers covering the target sports badminton, basketball, disability sport, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey and rugby. The team is led by the Principal Officer-Sports Development and has five key areas of work.
School Sport
Supporting Clubs
Coach and Teacher Education
District Squads
Supporting Elite Athletes
The Sports Development Team was established in 1996 when East Lothian Council took the bold and visionary step of publishing its Sports Development Strategy.  The strategy clearly set out how East Lothian Council would develop and promote sport across a number of services.

Pivotal to the delivery of the strategy was the establishment of a sports specific development team under the guidance of a principal officer of sports development.  10 years later and the Sports Development Team continues to be amongst the standard bearers in Scottish Sport. The team have contributed to the formulation of the Healthy Living Service’s strategic plan, Active East Lothian and the team’s impact on individual and team performances can clearly be seen in the report on East Lothian District Squad Success.

Team News

Welcome to the Sports Development Team Home Page
 
Click on one of the sports to the left to find out all the latest news from the Sports Development Team.
 
East Lothian Starts to see Olympic benefit
 
Kenny MacAskill (MSP) and Drew Donaldson (Chair of HACFC)
see Haddington’s first Legacy Project open for the community
 
East Lothian in Action
 
Forthcoming Level One Child Protection Training
Level One Child Protection Training is offered to coaches and volunteers working in East Lothian free of charge.
Any questions please contact:
Sports Development Team, Meadowmill Sports Centre, Tranent, EH33 1LZ
 
Fit to Coach
The brochure outlines forcoming courses in 2011-12. The training courses listed here will help volunteers, coaches and teachers to develop the confidence and skills needed to deliver physical activity and sport to school aged children.
 
PAiS
East Lothian’s Performance Atheletes in School programme established to support our top young athletes. Click here for current PAiS news