Giffnock Soccer Centre has appointed Michelle Evans, who will run the club’s new charity, GSC Auldhouse, from their Eastwood base.
Michelle has a long track record in senior football roles, starting off her career in sports journalism and breaking new ground as the first female member of the Scottish Football Writers’ Association.
She then took up the role of head of communications and wellbeing at PFA Scotland to support the welfare of professional footballers across the country.
Michelle also held communication and wellbeing roles with Partick Thistle FC and St Mirren FC and most recently has been leading the delivery of gambling harm awareness educational programmes to senior football clubs across the UK, as head of delivery for EPIC Global Solutions.
She said: “I am really excited to be joining GSC Auldhouse and can’t wait to get started in the new year.
“Sport, in particular football, can be such a powerful medium for change and I feel this is such a wonderful opportunity to support the club in their mission to make a real difference to the local community.
“My nephew has played with the club since he was five so I am no stranger to the GSC Auldhouse family and the fantastic work they have done in recent years.
“I look forward to working closely with Jim and the team to continue to build on that.”
Jim Docherty, chair of GSC and GSC Auldhouse trustee, said: “Michelle will start her role in early January with the brief of developing the new charity to deliver social inclusion programmes at GSC Auldhouse, and to maximise the use of the four grass and two new 3G pitches, which will take centre-stage at Scotland’s leading grassroots football facility.
“We have been hugely impressed by Michelle’s track record, and she shares our enthusiasm and determination to realise the huge potential of GSC Auldhouse to become an essential hub for everyone in the local community.”
