At the recent council meeting.Councillor Mark Brown asked the council to recognise Spartans Community Football Academy which is celebrating a decade of ‘Being Here for Good’ on 5 December.

Cllr Mark Brown

Cllr Brown pointed out the excellent work the football academy have undertaken in the last ten years in North Edinburgh and the programmes which have a lasting positive social impact in the area.

He also asked that the Lord Provost writes to The Spartans Community Football Academy to mark the decade of delivery of innovative programmes in youth work and education.

The academy is run as a social enterprise and offers football coaching and community coaching programmes to young people and children in North Edinburgh. But that is far from all they do.

They also run Alternative School for young people who are at risk of being excluded from school. This gives them a place to go for one on one tutoring and a place to learn at least three or four times a week. That work is coupled with homework clubs in four local primary schools and ensures the continued success of the organisation and the young people they support.

Here is their own video to mark the important anniversary.

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