The overall aim of our event is to focus on Health & Wellbeing, using Walking Football participation on the day as the fun aspect to raise funds for charity.
Healthy Goals event 4 October 2026
What is the event?
- We aim to have 5 continuous Walking Football matches taking place from 9am to 9pm with players playing for an hour or so each across the day.
- The matches are non-competitive with each match refereed by official SFA referees.
- Players, men and women, must be over 40 years of age.
- Individuals, groups of friends or families, business teams etc can all be accommodated with smaller groups allocated into matches depending on age, ability and perceived fitness levels.
The main objectives of the event are.
- to enable our partners to discuss their own services to those watching and participating throughout the day and identify specific resources they have available that could contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of themselves or others they care for
- to reduce the long-term burden on the NHS by enabling people to improve their own health and wellbeing
- to raise awareness of the benefits of walking football to people in the target audience groups. i.e. attract new people to come along, for them to participate for an hour or so and hopefully be encouraged to attend walking football sessions at times and locations that suit them best.
- to raise funds for our nominated charities on the day through fees to participate and donations in the lead up to and during the day