About Highland Weightlifting Club

Highland Weightlifting Club was founded with a clear purpose: to bring Olympic Weightlifting to the Highlands of Scotland, grow the sport at every level, and give athletes of all ages in the north a genuine pathway — from first session to national competition.

Based at Inverness Leisure, we are a British Weightlifting (BWL) Accredited Club, which means our coaches, our safeguarding standards and our structure meet the requirements set by the national governing body for the sport across the UK.

Who We Are

We are a club that competes seriously and welcomes warmly. Our membership spans young people from age 11, adult recreational lifters, competitive seniors and masters athletes who compete internationally. That mix is part of what makes HWC special — experience rubs shoulders with enthusiasm, and everyone improves as a result.

Our club is affiliated with Weightlifting Scotland and we work closely with sportscotland to develop the sport here in the Highlands. We have hosted the Northern Districts Weightlifting Championships at Inverness Leisure for several consecutive years, bringing competitive weightlifting to the north in a way that was simply not available here before.

We are also proud that our facilities at Inverness Leisure have welcomed the Scotland Commonwealth Games squad for training camps — a mark of the quality of what is available to our members right here in Inverness.

Where We Train

All HWC sessions take place in the Strength and Conditioning Room at Inverness Leisure, part of the High Life Highland network. The facility is equipped to a genuinely elite standard, featuring competition-grade platforms, barbells and bumper plates, making it one of the finest Olympic Weightlifting venues in Scotland.

Inverness Leisure
Bught Drive
Inverness
IV3 5SS

Our Mission...

“Weightlifting has never been more popular and is a fantastic way to maintain physical and mental health and wellbeing, regardless of age. The plan is to grow the sport in the Highlands with the dream of a future Olympian emerging from the youngsters that we have taking up the sport now.”

— Steve Walsh, Club Chairman