Scottish football fans start every qualifying campaign the same way, full of hope, desire and thoughts that maybe, just maybe we might just do it. But deep down, we know that this probably won't happen (as Scots, we all live with the eternal phrase built in 'the Hope that Kills Us'). We need other things to make us feel good about ourselves. So in 2006 and bunch of caring, travelling Scotland fans started the Tartan Army Childrens Charity (it's gone through a few names since then but that's what they are known as now)
The TACC's aim is to help disadvantaged children in Scotland and in countries that they visit whilst supporting Scotland's national football team.
Scotland did not qualify for World Cup 2010 but that did not stop the fundraising that TACC embarked on over the last two years to raise money for disadvantaged children in South Africa and ensuring that Scotland was represented. The Tartan Army Children's Charity donated £30,000 each to two deserving causes:
- Umthombo Street Children, Durban
- Let us Grow, Orange Farm, near Johannesburg
Even though Scotland didn't qualify, Scotland fans will leave their mark with a gesture that shows the world what Scotland and in particular the Tartan Army is all about. Over the course of the last campaign they helped to raise an incredible £60,000 to support disadvantaged children in South Africa.
They did this through a variety of means, one of which being the hugely successful Kiltwalk which even I joined in. Around 500 people got dressed in their 500 people got dressed up pin the finest Tartan Army attire (yes kilts) and walked from 26 miles from Hampden Park in Glasgow to Loch Lomond.
For more information on TACC and for details of a visit to the Let us Grow project go to http://www.tartanarmychildrenscharity.org.uk/cms/static.php?page=sa-blog
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