Promote use of our spaces as community hubs We aim to offer community venues from which to deliver activities and resources which support inclusion, empowerment, lifelong learning, skills development and literacy. PAN Disability Football League he PAN Disability league is a series of bi-monthly league competitions for players with a range of disabilities. ANGUSalive’s Forfar Community Campus facilities are the home of the Tayside Pan Disability Football squad. The players come from throughout Tayside and train weekly at the campus enabling them to participate in the programme. The programme is run by Scottish FA as part of their ‘Scotland
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United’ initiative and is funded by CashBack for Communities. The programme is in a seven-a-side festival format and involves nearly 40 clubs across Scotland. Local coaches are supported and receive free coach education to assist with player development and it is hoped that this will encourage many people to continue to participate in football and to become more involved in community-based activities.
Brechin Library Community Chess Club rechin Library was pleased to welcome a new community chess club in January 2020. The group leader wanted to take advantage of our increased late-night opening and location within the town to hold weekly meetings. The club felt it would be the ideal surrounding for the juniors to meet, as they would be surrounded by all the books and resources we have to offer, as well as get a feel for what’s going on in their local library and more widely, the local community. The group had been very well attended with a dozen mixed-age (primary and secondary) school pupils from Angus schools attending each week. Some of our ANGUSalive library members had even begun joining in too.
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This new club using Brechin Library demonstrates the value of libraries in providing a multi-purpose functionality within the community through increased opening hours and use of flexible spaces.
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