Homeless World Cup transfers to Easter Road
Posted on 10/05/2009
Homeless World Cup has a new Global Headquarters. Easter Road Stadium, home to Hiberian FC. It will share the South Stand with The Hibernian FC Community Foundation Learning Centre.
Scott Lindsay, Chief Executive, Hibernian FC welcomed the Homeless World Cup saying: “We are delighted to welcome the Homeless World Cup to the South Stand. To have such an inspiring and successful global football social enterprise sharing a building with our own Community Foundation will bring obvious benefits for both the Foundation and the Club. There are great synergies and shared networks between the work the Homeless World Cup, the Club and the Foundation do, and we are already working together on some exciting joint initiatives to be launched over the next month.”
Mel Young, Founder and President, Homeless World Cup, said, “The Homeless World Cup has demonstrated that football has the potential to change lives to change the world. So Moving into a football stadium is the right place for us to be. Hibernian FC has a great vision for the community, which accords with our mission. If we all do something, united together we can make a real difference.”
