Giffnock Soccer Centre appoints new General Manager as club charity gears up for 2025
Michelle Evans will run the club’s new charity GSC Auldhouse from their base in Eastwood in Glasgow South
Scotland’s largest grassroots football club Giffnock Soccer Centre has appointed employed its first-ever General Manager, Michelle Evans, to run its new charity GSC Auldhouse from the club’s base in Eastwood in Glasgow South.
Michelle has a long track-record in senior football roles, starting off her career in sports journalism and breaking new ground as the the first female member of the Scottish Football Writers' Association before taking up the role of Head of Communications & Wellbeing at PFA Scotland to support the welfare of professional footballers across Scotland.
Michelle also held communication and well-being roles with Partick Thistle and St Mirren and most recently has been leading delivery of gambling harm awareness educational programmes to senior football clubs across the UK, as Head of Delivery for EPIC Global Solutions.
Jim Docherty, chair of GSC and GSC Auldhouse trustee stated: “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.
"Michelle will also take responsibility for the GSC Academy, working alongside Chelsie Watson and the excellent team there, to ensure we offer the best possible experience to the next generation of GSC players. 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.
Commenting on her appointment, Michelle 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.”