The SPFL Trust has launched a search for a small team of & event volunteers to work on an exciting upcoming project that will feature a number of club’s community programmes. More will be revealed in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, we’re looking for volunteers seeking to gain valuable & fulfilling career experience. In…
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by Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae Our media interns Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae are back on the road speaking to SPFL clubs to find out more about their inspiring work in the community. This week they visited The Rangers Charity Foundation and spoke with community executives Gary Gibson (GG) and Jordan Boyd (JB) as well…
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by Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae In this week’s ‘Spotlight On’ series our attention turns to the team at The SPFL Trust. The Trust recently hosted an event at Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. The team went along to showcase their game-changing community work in partnership with Scotland’s 42 league clubs.
The SPFL Trust have signed GCU students, Daryn MacRae and Calum Woodger, as media interns until the end of their degree. The duo are building on their MA Multimedia Journalism studies at the university by gaining hands-on experience working at Hampden, the national football stadium. Supported by Santander and the GCU Foundation, Daryn (DM) and…
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Media intern Daryn MacRae recently popped in next door at Lesser Hampden where he met George Watson, Community Development Manager at Queen’s Park FC, to find out more about the work they are doing in the local community. George championed the “excellent and very comprehensive” H2-O Programme, run by the SPFL Trust and Scottish Water, and…
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by Calum Woodger Media intern Calum Woodger recently visited Cappielow to speak to Brian McLaughlin, Head of Community Coaching at Greenock Morton Community Trust to find out more about Scotland’s ‘Best Professional Club in the Community’. Brian was able to explain how one community coach has become more popular than half the Morton squad and…
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Vacancy: Fundraiser ( Projects ) Reporting to: SPFL Trust General Manager Salary: £21,000 ( pro rata ) Hours: 21 hrs per week Status: Part Time Location: Glasgow based with UK wide travel* with some European working Contract: 1yr fixed term ( potential for continuation subject to funding ) Pension: 6% of basic salary paid into an agreeable pension scheme…
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by Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae Continuing their journey around the SPFL grounds, media interns Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae recently visited Scott Millar, Development Manager at Livingston’s West Lothian Youth Foundation to find out more about the work their doing in the local community. Scott told the pair that FFIT particpants had “lost the collective…
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Scottish Professional Football League Trust is helping 26 clubs become ‘festive friends’ to hundreds of socially isolated older people the length and breadth of the country. Almost 500 elderly people across Scotland will receive a Christmas to remember thanks to 26 Scottish football clubs and their charity arms, in a new ‘Festive Friends’ project being…
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by Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae In a new SPFL Trust series, media interns Calum Woodger and Daryn MacRae will visit football grounds around the country to meet the people behind the scenes at clubs’ Community Trusts, and share their fantastic stories. First up, the pair went along to Firhill to chat with Partick Thistle Community Trust manager Paul Kelly (PK) and programme coordinator…
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