Support Thistle Strips To Ghana....

As some of you may remember, in 2006 Thistle fan Adam Lockyer organised an appeal to take Thistle shirts out to Ghana. Thanks to your generosity, he managed to take over 100 children’s and youth shirts out with him. These shirts were used to kit out boys teams at under-12, under-14 and under-17 level and also a girls team. All of these teams are run by the Right to Dream Underprivileged Children’s Centre. The tops are still used by these teams and there is a strong affection for Partick Thistle in the local community, even though most will almost certainly never get the chance to see the mighty Jags in action.

Time rolls on, and Adam is currently back out in Ghana for a 6 week work stint. He has been in touch with the Trust to let us know that a group of folk who have grown too old for the under-17 team have entered an adult team into the Accra Regional 3rd Division in Ghana for the new season. Future Stars FC are currently renting tops each week since they can’t afford to buy them.

The Trust is looking for fans to make a Paypal donation towards the cost of 14 to 16 adult home tops that we hope to send out to kit out the Future Stars. We appreciate that times are tough at home, and that fans have already been very generous in digging deep to sponsor the Nomads, OTIG and EEoS tops. Your generosity is never taken for granted and is deeply appreciated. However, we do hope that some of you can spare a donation for this very worthwhile project.

Time is fairly tight, unfortunately, with the next group of volunteers (who will take the tops with them) heading out to Ghana at the start of September, so if you can spare a donation then please send it to the Trust via Paypal using the payment address paypal@jagstrust.com. Please remember to add a comment that the money is intended for the Ghana appeal.

If you want to know more about the charity, then you can check out via this link.

Thanks in advance for your support. We’ll post updates as this progresses.