What provision the Scottish Football Association has made for delivering anti-sectarianism workshops, events and messages through the CashB…

For 2007-14, the Scottish FA has been awarded £5.436 million in CashBack for Communities funding to run a series of six projects including Schools of Football, Girls’ and Women’s Football Development, the Football Equity Project and the Diversionary Football project. The Scottish FA is currently looking at including anti-sectarianism work as part of the theory sessions in the Schools of Football project.
The Scottish Government is committed to removing sectarianism from our communities and is investing some £9 million over the current three year spending period to tackle sectarianism, and all forms of bigoted behaviour across Scottish society. The government is also undertaking a longer term programme of work to tackle violence, alcohol misuse and bigotry associated with football and is working in partnership with interested parties to develop wide ranging recommendations to help improve the game and to contribute positively to wider efforts to tackle these social issues.
You may wish to contact Donald Gillies, Football Development Manager at the Scottish FA for further details of the work that the association is doing in this area. Donald’s contact details are: Telephone: 0141 616 6180, e-mail: Donald.Gillies@scottishfa.co.uk.