The ‘Together in Sport’ event took place at Maryhill Community Central Hall with people from Asian, Chinese, African and Caribbean communities joining staff and volunteers from Sporting Memories and Age Scotland for specially designed sessions.
With the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games taking place in July, attendees were given the chance to take part in a specially designed activity where they learned more about the Games and the potential athletes that will be competing for Scotland in the summer. Additional funding from the Glasgow 2026 Festival fund will ensure that further events will be able to take place across the city in the build up to the Games.
Sporting Memories is a charity and social enterprise that helps older people to reminisce, replay and reconnect through the power of sport and physical activity.
Launched in 2011, Sporting Memories supports a wide range of people aged 50-plus, including those living with dementia, living with depression or facing isolation and loneliness to improve their mental and physical wellbeing through regular club sessions in communities across England, Scotland and Wales.
It was a chance for those in attendance to find out more about what Sporting Memories activities looks like at those clubs and to see what they might themselves find most enjoyable and beneficial.
It was a busy morning with an array of activities on offer for everyone to sample including boccia and a quiz to test everyone’s knowledge.
Staff and volunteers took time to gather feedback from the attendees about what they liked and would like to participate in the future.
Brian Sloan, Development Director at Sporting Memories Scotland, said:
“It was great to host a session where people from the local community were together in sport and to see so many people from across Glasgow to join us for an event which was designed to show sport is for all ages.”
“We were overwhelmed with the enthusiasm and joy from all the participants. The broadness of the ethnic communities represented was very heartening with older people group representatives from the Asian, Chinese, African and Caribbean communities.
“They all shared a love for physical exercise and enthusiastically participated in the activities. We also received a lot of valuable feedback which we will use to develop our engagement with ethnically diverse communities over the coming months.”
