As a club without a home, the Clyde FC Community Foundation is in a unique position of working across multiple areas of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire, often in areas which are high on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). As such, we hear from young people, parents, teachers, venues and others about the need which exists in these areas, in relation to access to sports, healthy lifestyles and educational outcomes.

The Foundation's programmes on areas such as mental health (through the Clyde United mental health team), isolation and loneliness (at our Sporting Memories Club) and in schools such as our 'Talking Football' football and literacy programmes and free after school clubs provide significant positive benefit to a wide range of people and we aim to expand these outcomes over the coming years.

However, in an increasingly difficult funding environment we are, like many charities, aware of the difficulties of providing services and funding them. Whereas in years gone by, we may have thought nothing of schools paying us to deliver sessions or individuals paying their own way at some, it's increasingly clear that this is simply not happening and this is particularly apparent in areas of deprivation.

We are fundraising to give the Foundation the ability to offer services to schools, youth groups, individuals and communities who cannot afford to access services and the positive outcomes which come along with these.