Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Unison becomes new sponsor of Moray Girls Football Club

MGFC's under-14 team. Image: Moray Girls Football Club.
MGFC's under-14 team. Image: Moray Girls Football Club.

A growing Moray girls football club has been landed a sponsorship deal with trade union Unison.

Elgin-based Moray Girls Football Club (MGFC) said it was “amazing” to be able to kit the team out in full strips.

Set up in 2009, the club has a number of teams playing from under 10s to under 16s right across the north of Scotland – and since Covid, membership is growing.

The Moray branch of Unison said it had given a “lot of thought” about how to raise awareness of the important of trade unions to the younger generation.

When the idea of supporting the local football team was suggested to the committee, it was unanimously agreed.

MGFC’s new shirt with the Unison sponsor. Image: Unison Moray.

A spokesman for Unison Moray said “they were thrilled” to be sponsoring MGFC, adding: “As a branch, we were keen to support a Moray wide charity.

“By supporting MGFC we are reaching young females throughout Moray who can benefit from knowledge of the trade union movement and share this with their wider friends and family.”

‘Just being able to give them all a game strip was amazing for us’

Secretary of Moray Girls Football Club, Alison Leslie said: “The sponsorship is really good for us, because we’ve been growing over the last three to four years. Before Covid, we probably had about just under 30 girls and now we’re up at 70 girls.

“So just being able to give them all a game strip was amazing for us. It’s quite a lot of money to purchase for such a small charity like ourselves, but it’s just been amazing to have that.”

When asked if being sponsored by a trade union risks the club’s neutrality on political and social issues, Mrs Leslie said: “We’re not tied to anything like that due to them [players] being younger, but if it works for them, then we’re quite happy as a club to help support girls’ rights, women’s rights and everybody’s rights, so it’s good for that.”

Conversation