Who
Formed in 1872 Rangers FC is an iconic Scottish football club with worldwide support. It has 230 employees.

What
The Old Firm Alliance is a health awareness programme delivered to over 3,000 7-9 year olds in over 100 schools each year. This is delivered in partnership with Celtic FC.
       
Kicks and Tricks uses football in hotspot areas of youth disorder to engage children and signpost them to other activities. This is delivered in partnership with Strathclyde Police. Rangers have committed to expanding this programme to be reaching 1500 children per annum.
       
Support Employment is a programme tackling long term unemployment which works intensively with individuals for ten week programmes delivering basic employability skills in partnership with Job Centre plus and Careers Scotland.

The staff at Rangers provide day-to-day assistance to the Charity Foundation in their professional roles by offering their expertise and advice, as well as taking part in all sorts of additional activities and personal fundraising challenges to support the Foundation’s work. The Club also mobilises its players in support of its community investment, and the squad assists as much as possible with the work of the Foundation, for example, by attending the annual charity ball Evening with the Stars event and activities associated with nominated charities.

In the season 2009-2010 the Club implemented a Champions League Street Football project, with more than 1,000 young people participating from Glasgow.

Rangers have also developed the Rangers Charity Foundation which works with three nominated charities a year and supports hundreds of others through ticket give-aways and player appearances.

Why
The Club is committed to playing a key role in regenerating the local community and subsequently aligns all of their community initiatives with Glasgow's Community Plan.
Rangers FC acknowledges the complexity and multidimensional nature of social issues such as health, employment, literacy and numeracy, youth disorder, citizenship, sectarianism, territorialism, and the factors that can help and hinder efforts to transform the lives of vulnerable individuals.

The Club understand the value of working in partnership, leveraging their expertise for mutual benefit. Their programmes address key issues that are most relevant to their club and most pressing to the communities within which they work.

Business benefits

• Through their initiatives new fans have begun to support Rangers FC
• A new route of recruitment has been established
• Positive partnerships with the city council and further stakeholders have been formed
   

Community benefits

• The Old Firm Alliance has raised activity levels on average by three hours each week and increased awareness of healthy eating by 90% amongst participants
• Kicks and Tricks has resulted in a 70% reduction in youth disorder around the stadium environs, it has also sent 16 young people into further education and one young person has been employed by the club in a full time role.
• Relations with local residents have improved
• Through Support Employment over 360 participants have graduated from the programme with 75% moving into employment, training or education. 53% of participants have been off benefits 13 weeks after the programme and three participants have been directly employed by the community wing of the club.

Future
The Club continually strives to increase capacity of the Community programme, ensuring it positively affects the lives of more people and communities by developing new, innovative and exciting projects. They have committed to the expansion of the Well Man Clinic, with local projects rolled out across Glasgow involving an additional 400 participants every year, aged 40-60, targeting their health and wellbeing.

Website www.rangers.co.uk