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2025 Island Games

EDM (Early Day Motion) 1702: tabled on 17 July 2025

Tabled in the 2024-26 session.

This motion has been signed by 13 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

Motion text

That this House congratulates the organisers of the 2025 Island Games, a sporting competition involving 24 island communities from across the world and hosted in Orkney; notes that the 20th edition of the Games marks 40 years since the first event held in 1985; pays tribute to over 2,000 visitors and participants in this year’s games, competing in a wide variety of sports; acknowledges the medal success of athletes from islands across the British Isles; gives thanks to the many Orcadian and international volunteers who have contributed their time to make the Games a success; and looks forward to further success for athletes from the British Isles in the 2027 Island Games in the Faroe Islands.