Fundraising News

13/07/09
In February 2009 North Glasgow Football Development Group decided to try a pilot scheme to see if we could access more areas of funding. We got charitable status to get the ball rolling. Obviously what we would like is world domination (according to Chairman Mark Adams) but to get started we have applied to Sense Over Sectarianism to fund the Sunday sessions for the next year. The Sunday coaching sessions are a valued resource in the local community and a great way to get young children off the couch and onto a pitch.
We have been very lucky in getting our local (Canal) Ward to give us money for team strips for our new NKU 2001s team and we hope to get funding in the next round to get strips for the new adult second team.
NGFDG has its begging bowl out at the moment as we have applied for money from Awards For All (in the hope of getting funding for a Summer Camp), The Macroberts Trust, Community Chest and various Scottish Trusts in the hope of employing a development officer for the group. This would be a major step forward to encourage and enhance the work the fabulous volunteers do at the moment. We have been given a conditional offer of £1,000 by 2014 Communities, run by The Big Lottery Fund in Scotland, but are
looking to various other organisations to fund future plans, which are ambitious, so watch this space!