Morton in the Community News

  1. BOYS | Unique Strip in Memory of Kris

    Morton Community 2008s team have designed their own unique strip in memory of Community Coach, Kirs Juszczak, thanks to sponsorship from Compassionate Inverclyde. Alison Bunce; Compassionate Inverclyde, “The TSB our charity partner this year have been raising funds for Compassionate Inverclyde and with their generosity we were able to sponsor the strip with the Compassionate Inverclyde Logo. It is another [...]

  2. POSITIVE GOALS | Ton Fan Jim Supported Back to Work

    Jim Nelis, a lifelong Morton fan recently benefitted from engaging in Morton in the Community’s employability project Positive Goals. Securing work with local company Promedics. Having been made redundant after nearly twenty years, Jim (62) from Port Glasgow, found himself engaging with Job Centre Plus for the first time. With the guidance from his work [...]

  3. #Celebrating5Years | Golf Event

    On Friday 4 May 2018 Gourock Golf Club hosted eighty players as our celebrating five years fundraising events and activities continued with a Texas Scramble, sponsored by VSN Sport. The event had an extra edge of excitement as VSN Sport sponsored all par three’s should someone hit a hole in one. There was a staggering [...]

  4. #Celebrating5Years | Real Madrid & Liverpool Silent Auction Items

    Real Madrid and Liverpool compete in the semi finals of the UEFA Champions League this week and we have two fantastic items available to the highest bidder. Firstly, a framed 2017/18 Real Madrid shirt signed by the current double Champions League winning squad in full, there is an opening bid of £500. Secondly, an Andy [...]

  5. #Morton50DayChallenge | Featured fundraiser

    Gillian Hughes, a volunteer with Morton in the Community delivering Football Fans in Training, is a Senior Active Schools Coordinator with Inverclyde Council and sees our work and impact on a daily basis. Gillian comments: “It’s great that Morton in the Community covers so many programmes in addition to football, this really creates a community [...]

  6. Commemorative Morton Shirts Up For Auction

    Supporters have been given the opportunity to get their hands on unique Morton shirts worn to celebrate five years of community activity in an online auction. Morton in the Community celebrated their birthday on 31st March 2018 and each member of the playing squad took to the field for the match against Dundee United sporting special [...]

  7. #Morton50DayChallenge | Featured fundraiser

    Alan Martin, volunteering with Morton in the Community as the Head of Greenock Morton Hockey Club is fundraising again for Ardgowan Hospice and Morton in the Community. This is Alan’s second #Morton50DayChallenge having helped raise £249.79 last year, evenly split between both organisations. Alan said: “I am fundraising for Ardgowan Hospice because they are the [...]

  8. #Morton50DayChallenge | Featured fundraisers

    Calum and Sandra Livingstone, Lorna and Craig Robertson and Lynne, Brian and Ellie Patterson returned to the #Morton50DayChallenge for the third year on the trot. Last year the team raised £776.42 which was split evenly between Morton in the Community and Bowel Cancer UK. This time around their charity of choice is Crisis Counselling who [...]

  9. #Celebrating5Years | Charity Dinner

    On Saturday 31 March 2018 the Greenock Town Hall was packed with partners, funders, sponsors, parents, participants and staff as we celebrated five years of Morton in the Community in style. Stuart McMillan MSP kicked the evening off by piping guests to their seats before Des McKeown took over the reins of the night’s events. [...]

  10. #Celebrating5Years | Community Day: Greenock Morton vs Dundee United

    Heading to Greenock Morton vs Dundee United? Why not arrive early and get the chance to hit a penalty at Cappie the Cat or see how hard you can kick the ball at our speed gun. All activities will take place on Sinclair street from 1:15pm and we invite all fans to arrive early and [...]