Good evening everyone
As ever, everyone here at Scottish Fencing hopes you and your loved ones are safe, well and healthy as the restrictions on what we class as “normal” working life remain. For those keyworkers and those families of keyworkers we extend our warmest thanks for all your efforts.
In terms of our position relating to the recent coverage of potential and actual changes to lockdown measures in England & Wales, we take our lead from the Scottish Government position which is to retain the status quo for the next 3 weeks or until any announcement is made detailing what any easing of restrictions looks like. As per the First Minister’s statement earlier on Friday May 8th, the status quo – difficult as it is – will remain in place in Scotland.
There has already been minor alterations to restrictions announced in Wales and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will detail the position within England on Sunday. The differing approaches across devolved governments may seem confusing, but in terms of the sport of Fencing it means we don’t conduct any sporting activity in Scotland until advised otherwise except of course conducting one period of exercise per day on your own or with those people whom you share a household.
Once again, we will take our guidance from the Scottish Government position as and when it changes. When it happens we will of course share the updates.
Internally, CEO Vincent Bryson is part of an industry-wide group working with sportscotland and every other Scottish governing body to share collaborative best practice and this continues to be a healthy example of how a unified approach to restarting sport will best serve the public interest.
Whilst the “restart” of fencing as we know it remains both unknown and likely some time away, I hope you can continue to share and tag us with your home workouts and all the fantastic innovative ways households, families and clubs are still celebrating fencers and fencing.
Thank you for sticking with us and with each other - and on this day of all days rest assured, “we’ll meet again”.
#WeAreHere
#ForgingTheFuture
Vincent Bryson
