Montrose FC Has Become a New Member of EFDN

Montrose FC Has Become a New Member of EFDN

The European Football for Development Network is glad to announce that Montrose Football Club has become a new member of the network.

Montrose FC is a Scottish semi-professional football team, based in the town of Montrose, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Professional Football League and currently play in Scottish League Two, the fourth tier of football in Scotland.

What about Montrose FC’s CSR strategy?

Montrose FC, founded in 1879, is a small club with a big heart. The club, aware of it’s responsibilities towards the lives and in particular the wellbeing of those in its locality, supported the development of the Links Park Community Trust in 2011.

Links Park Community Trust (LPCT), a registered charity, aims to utilise the power and widespread of sport, but in particular football, to inspire change, through an extensive range of sporting, healthy and educational programmes.

LPCT work with a range of partners in the identification of local need, such as health inequalities, and develop and deliver programmes that are designed to address such, with examples being our ‘Football Memories’ reminiscence project for those living with dementia, our ‘Walk & Talk’ initiative for socially isolated older adults and our ‘Walking Football’ programme for those with mental health disorders.

Our award-winning educational programmes aims to improve attainment and achievement in the areas of health, numeracy, literacy and science by using football as the context and challenging participants to take on key roles at the stadium, such as the ‘new signing’ or the ‘reporter’ in a mock press conference amongst others.