Green Gown Awards 2019 - Ayrshire College - Finalist

The Jo Love Soccer School is a physical activity initiative that has been developed to improve the health and wellbeing of young females living within East Ayrshire. The three way project links the Scottish Women’s Football Association (SWFA), East Ayrshire Active Schools (EAAS) and Ayrshire College.  

The project has adopted the name of local international female footballer Jo Love who has been selected due to her suitability as a role model. The free weekly initiative delivered at Ayrshire College has been designed to get young girls more physically active through the vehicle of football. Student volunteers have been trained up by our SWFA and EAAS partners to deliver variety of enjoyable football themed activity sessions throughout the year.  

The SWFA have stated that the project has been a tremendous success and is the most popular within the region with over 100 young girls participating on a weekly basis. 

Top 3 learnings:

• Girls just want to have fun! 
• Sisterhood is a very powerful tool. 
• Partnership working makes life a lot easier.