OTB provides football education services for over 150 kids in the area. We work with many local schools, community projects and education services to remove barriers to children’s participation in sport, and support children to excel in football through high quality and supportive coaching. 

In the areas we work, we hear firsthand that cost is the biggest barrier for local children and families to participate in sport. Exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis, children are left playing in derelict spaces and places, unable to access the expensive current facilities on offer locally or join high fee clubs and classes nearby.

OTB are proposing to enhance the green space which exists at the old danes drive bowls site which is situated in Scotstounhill close to kingsway multi-storey flats. We will install and maintain a state of the art 5G football pitch which is suitable for 9 aside football and tailored to grassroots education in particular.  

The area in which the facility will be located is in the heart of a community which has suffered from very little investment from public and private funding in recent years and the green space has suffered with overgrown grass, dog fouling, graffiti and vandalism commonplace. Our development will provide local people with an opportunity to develop their sporting potential and be part of an exciting, innovative and welcoming community project that will reduce isolation and improve mental and physical health.

We will upgrade and maintain the current multi-use pitch and install an upgraded 5G pitch which is free for use for the local community 100% of the week. 

We will build and maintain a 9 aside football facility which will have charges associated with it. Through fundraising, we will ensure that we have a hybrid payment system for pitch hire, allowing local groups and organisations with little to no income to rent the pitch for beneficiaries and teams at affordable rates. 

Through fundraising and partnership working, the sheltered facilities beside the pitch will be further used for community benefit, offering space to local projects and programmes working to meet identified local ward priorities; health and wellbeing; youth employment and supporting young people; vulnerable people and families support; creation of safer and more sustainable communities.