Aberdeen FC Community Trust (AFCCT), the official charity partner of Aberdeen FC, has this morning launched their brand new, stand alone website –  www.afccommunitytrust.org

AFCCT, which is privileged to have Denis Law as its Honorary Patron, was set up in March 2014 as a registered charity with the vision “To provide support and opportunity to change lives for the better”.
Despite being in operation for just over a year AFCCT has already had a huge impact in the local community delivering 5 distinct strands of community activity across the North East of Scotland; Positive Activity, Health & Wellbeing, Equality & Inclusion, Good Citizenship & Learning.

AFCCT, which evolved from Aberdeen Football Club’s Community department (AFC in the Community), also still carries out the type of activities that you would associate with a football club’s community department such as football coaching for kids but over the last 12 months the Trust has expanded to deliver a wide range of programmes impacting the lives of people of all ages in Aberdeen City & Shire.

AFCCT has also introduced another mascot to the AFC family, with Donny the Sheep joining Angus the Bull and Si the Seagull, to spread the word about AFCCT to Dons supporters throughout the North East.

This website has been designed in a way that shows the close link with Aberdeen FC but also reflects the fact that AFCCT is an independent organisation with its own Board of Trustees, separate finances and funding mechanisms overseen by the Scottish Charity Regulator.

We hope that the launch of this website will allow us to tell our story a bit better and see this as the perfect opportunity to tell the story so far and also look at what the future might hold for AFCCT!

AFCCT’s Chief Executive Ally Prockter added. “The launch of the AFC Community Trust website is one more important step for our recently formed charity. AFCCT has come a long way during the past 12 months, and our own website will allow us to even more effectively highlight the fantastic amount of community work being done along with AFC and other essential partners.

“Those of us in the North East of Scotland are sometimes a bit slow in telling others about the excellent things that we do, and the AFCCT website will now provide all our participants and community partners with a fantastic platform to tell some inspiring stories, and to find out all that we are doing locally. I would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us this far, and I am excited at thought of what we will achieve during the next 12 months and beyond.”