Gymfest 2025 Highlights

Our Gymfest 2025 highlights are now live on our Gymfest tab! Head to the ‘Sports and Physical Activity’ tab, then select ‘Gymnastics’ and then ‘Gymfest’ to read all about our event and watch our individual performances and archived footage. Alternatively you can watch the 2025 highlights below:

Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games return to Glasgow in 2026, from July 23rd until August 2nd. Head to the drop down menus above and select ‘Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games’ to hear about the games, the official mascot, Finnie the Unicorn and to watch highlights of the Glasgow Schools Baton Launch!

PEPASS Velodrome Programme

Our PEPASS Velodrome Programme is up and running! Click in the sport and activity tab from the homepage to read about the programme. Click on the video below to see the programme in action and hear from our deliverers and pupils!

Continuing to Celebrate 20 Years of Active Schools!

Check out our most recent video on celebrating Active Schools! Head to the drop down menus under Glasgow PEPASS and then Active Schools Team. You’ll find our key priority areas that we strive towards and the video. Alternatively you can watch by clicking on this post:

Active Schools Nightmare Games 2025

Building on the success of our first schools Hyrox/functional fitness competition (Nightmare Games 1.0) in November 2024—run as a pilot with mainly north-east secondary schools, where pairs of boys and girls competed in a fitness workout against other schools—we expanded our efforts this year. On 19th November 2025, we delivered a city-wide event for S4–S6 pupils, marking our second schools competition. This became the largest secondary school functional fitness event to date, with 280

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Gymfest 2025 – Thursday 4th December

Gymfest is fast approaching! Hope you have all been practicing your routines. Click on the link to watch our ‘Journey to Gymfest’ video featuring one of our Glasgow schools, St Marnock’s Primary to see what’s in store for the event!

‘Glasgow Apprentices Hail Sport Programme Life Changing’

A great article in Glasgow Times about how our MA programme impacts the lives of the young people who take part: https://glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25125748.glasgow-apprentices-hail-sport-programme-life-changing/… Interested? We are recruiting for 2025-27 NOW! Click on the ‘PEPASS Modern Apprentices’ tile and ‘Application’ to get started!

Celebrating 20 Years of Active Schools!

2024 marked a significant milestone as we celebrate 20 years of the Active Schools! Since its inception, Active Schools has been dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of school-aged children across Scotland. Throughout the 2024/25 school year, we will be celebrating the hard work and dedication of every single coordinator, volunteer, and participant who has contributed to making the Active Schools initiative such a success! Active Schools has played

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Dance and Gymnastics Content!

Our latest Dance and Gymfest videos are now live! Click on the ‘PEPASS Events & Resources’ page to view your schools latest performances at the Gymfest and City of Dance Finals!

Modern Apprenticeships Applications Now Live!

Our next cohort of PEPASS Modern Apprenticeship applications are now live! Click on the ‘PEPASS Modern Apprentices’ tile and head to the ‘Essential Information’ tab detailing everything you need to know. From there you can follow the link embedded at the bottom or alternatively head to the ‘Applications’ tab. Reminder than all applicants must be registered with Glasgow Guarantee.