National memories programme, est. 2009. A @SFootballMuseum & @Alzscot partnership supporting people with dementia & social isolation. Also @ScottishPara member.
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Joined June 2011
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Football Memories Scotland retweeted
Great to have David Stuart & Robert Marshall in today, founders of footie magazine Scottish Epistles, speaking to Hampden Club @FootballMemSco group about new book, 'A Celebration of Anglo-Scottish Footballers: Scotsmen Who’ve Lit Up English Football'
@davstu11 @PitchPublishing
Football Memories Scotland retweeted
Elsie Cook is inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame 🌟
Women's football pioneer Elsie is honoured at the Scottish Football Museum surrounded by family, friends and admirers and autobiography 'A Kiss Fae Pele' is launched.
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Football Memories Scotland retweeted
From the Hampden Club to Benbecula! Our @FootballMemSco volunteers certainly get around! Robert Harvey visited Roddy Smith, a former Hampden Club regular & community helper, & the famous Eriskay pitch for a kick about & reminiscing. What a way to spend the weekend!
@EriskayFC
Football Memories Scotland retweeted
What a pleasure to welcome John Connolly to our @FootballMemSco Hampden Club meeting today to speak about his incredible career & favourite football memories!
@StJohnstone @HibernianFC @BCFC @Everton @ScotlandNT @OfficialQosFC @BCFC
Stuart Rafferty joined our Hampden Club group to share stories of his career spanning many clubs including @MotherwellFC @officialdafc @Morton_FC & @DundeeFC. Everyone inc our visiting @FootballMemSco Coordinators & volunteers from Dundee had a fantastic time! Thank you Stuart!
A fantastic morning for the Hampden Club Football Memories group as José Quitongo shared stories from his eventful career, on and off the pitch!…the laughter could be heard all round @HampdenPark! Thank you José!
Fantastic to have Rob McKinnon at our Hampden Club this morning talking all things football with our group; from East Kilbride youth to @NewcastleU, @Official_HUFC to @MotherwellFC @ScotlandNT & @fctwente 🇳🇱 …what a career! Lovely to have his father with us too. Thank you Rob!
A true gentleman and a fantastic speaker for our Hampden club group!
Thank you @DavieMackinnon
A fantastic organisation that brings groups together in harmony talking about football. I'd be happy to attend any @FootballMemSco clubs out there. Let me know.
Football Memories Scotland retweeted
"Virtual reality headsets set to bring remote Football Memories sessions to rural north fans including elderly and dementia sufferers" Thanks to @FootballMemSco's Richard McBrearty for this insight at @ICTFC_Community. @pressjournal @PandJSport @alzscot
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Football Memories Scotland retweeted
💬l "Once you live in a town & you start watching a team, well that's your team until death."
Organised in partnership with @Specsavers & @FootballMemSco, our Football Memories session was recently visited by special guest, retired referee, Douglas Yates.
@StJohnstone l @stjwfc
A fantastic morning for our Hampden Club Memories group today who met @SFootballMuseum with special speaker @DavieMackinnon telling fascinating stories included in his book of overcoming adversity in his personal life, & his eventful football & business career.
Thank you David!
A fantastic morning for many of the Hampden Club today, thanks @dougiedonnelly for sharing so many fantastic memories and for chatting to everyone!
From early days as ball boy for @ClydeFC, to booking Billy Connolly at @UniStrathclyde, to covering the biggest sporting events in the world and interviewing @BillClinton. What laughs in the room today as @dougiedonnelly shared highlights of his amazing career with us!📚
A fantastic presentation & talk from Jim @FootballFairs for our Hampden Club Football Memories group today 🤩
Some incredible programmes from Jim’s collection kindly on show including the 1932 England v Scotland match programme & Scotland’s first World Cup match 1954 v Austria
A fantastic day at Toryglen for the over 70s Walking Football Tournament, so much interest from young and old(er) in our memorabilia and the work of the project!
Well done to all involved! ⚽️
We were also delighted to welcome the @scottishcup alongside our friends from @footballmemsco adding to what was a special day at Toryglen Regional Football Centre.
A special welcome was also made our furthest travelled team, Hillsborough from Northern Ireland. Well done all!
Thank you @andy_memories for being part of another packed group session today @HampdenPark, great to see so many enjoying themselves!
Our very own Visitor Services Manager Andy was guest speaker @FootballMemSco Hampden Club today, sharing early footie memories & discussing his other roles @KilmarnockFC, his boyhood club (all relative terms the group noted when you’re the youngest in the room by a few yrs!) 👦🏻
Football Memories East Kilbride will meet again on 19th March at East Kilbride Central Library. Contact tel below if you or someone you know would like to attend!
We are delighted to be working with @specsavers & @ScottishFA to enable Football Memories groups in Scotland to hear from former referees. Specsavers have also sponsored new memory boxes for our network👓💚
Read more as Dougie Hope kicked off our tour:
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We had a brilliant day with @WalkingFootScot launching our partnership project to bring together walking football clubs & football reminiscence through @FootballMemSco.
Physical health 🤝 mental health ⚽️
@in_vics @MRamsay89 @R_McBrearty @ScottishFA_dis
If your club is interested in joining us @HampdenPark in 2024 for a day of walking football & learning more about the power of reminiscence, contact [email protected]
