Camanachd Association and Women's Camanachd Association

The Camanachd Association came into being on 10th October 1893, at a meeting held in the Victoria Hall, Kingussie. The people involved in shinty at that time saw that the sport was growing, more clubs were being formed and there was a need for an overall governing body structure. By the time of the meeting in 1893 there were 33 recognised clubs. The Association has always had the ability to change to meet the developing needs of the sport and keep itself up-to-date with an appropriate organisational and governance structure. The structure put in place in 1893 met the needs of the sport at that time. By the middle of the 20th century needs were different and a major reorganisation of the administrative and managerial structures was implemented.

That served the sport well up until the 1980s. The ‘Future of Shinty’ Report published in 1981 led to a compete restructuring of the way in which shinty was organised and managed. That, in turn, led to the move away from a dependence on volunteers to manage the sport, to the Association’s first salaried employees being engaged.

And then, in 2005, to again meet the developing needs of the sport and after extensive consultations, the constituted Association was voted out of existence by the members and in its place they established a company limited by guarantee, still called The Camanachd Association.
Throughout its history and the different organisational and management structures that have been in place, the Camanachd Association has held one aim above all others – To foster, encourage, promote and develop the sport of shinty. 
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The women's Camanachd was set up in 1998 and has been very successful since it started. It was developed to given the women's game more opportunity to grow and to show that it can be just as successful as the mens game. Since the development of the Women's Camanachd the game has developed further and there is now a positive attitude towards women's shinty. The president of the women's camanachd is Karen Cameron who has been very successful in developing the game perhaps due to her knowledge and committment to the game. However although the two associations would appear to be completely separate both have the same objective to foster, encourage, promote and develop the sport of shinty.     

http://www.womens-shinty.com/