This TACC FC project was in Ruchazie which lies in North-East Glasgow close to Easterhouse and Royston.  The area is a hub of gang violence and territorialism.  Ruchazie is in the top 3% of Scotland’s poorest communities and has suffered from mutiple deprivation for decades.

 

TACC funded a club where young people could learn personal and social responsibility through football, interact with positive adult role models and sharing a healthy dinner.  The idea was to bring young people together from across the gang boundaries to work together through football.  The project was based in the Soccerworld complex and community café in Ruchazie.

 

The project was run by St Paul’s youth forum in conjunction with Ruchazie café.  The project employs local young staff and experienced youth workers.  St Pauls’s youth forum were a cutting edge youth work project from Provanmill which had won many awards and received the highest recognition from the Scottish government for their ability to get alongside vulnerable young people and engage them in positive activities. 

 

Ruchazie Community café and youth project were a smaller and more fragile project who continued to exist in dire circumstances for some time.  The café was the only facility in Ruchazie that the community could use and there was massive grassroots community support and TACC's investment allowed the café to provide staffing for the project.