The housing association came to the rescue at short notice with a £1500 cash donation for the Govan Youth Information Project.

The Project organises the annual “Govan Fair Cup Tournament” offering a splendid trophy and featuring teams from across the Govan community. It was held in Ibrox at community pitches in the shadow of Ibrox stadium – home to Rangers FC.

Understandably, the sports-mad 220 kids - made up of 12 boys’ teams and 9 girls’ teams - needed fed at lunchtime and Elderpark answered the call from GYIP.

Jonathan Giddings-Reid, Elderpark’s community regeneration officer, said: “We were delighted to help out. The tournament is an important sporting occasion and we needed to make sure hungry young players got a well-deserved lunch.

“The Govan Youth Information Project has played a vital role in the community since 1994 – supporting young people at every turn and the football tournament is a hugely-popular event offering fun for local boys and girls.”

GYIP youth worker John Aitken said: “We can’t thank Elderpark Housing enough for its generous donation. Knowing we could ensure there was lunch for over 200 young people was an enormous help.

“The tournament was the busiest we have ever organised with more boys and girls’ teams taking part than ever before. This was our third year of delivering it. There was a great atmosphere and the emphasis was firmly on ensuring they all had a great time.”

The winners who lifted the trophy were the boys and girls’ teams from Mosspark.

GYIP’s aim is to deliver “empowering and meaningful” youth work to all children and young people within Govan and like Elderpark Housing is committed to the development and regeneration of the local community.