President - Kenny McLean

Kenny is a retired police officer and resides in the Central Scotland area with his wife & family.

Over the years, Kenny has been involved with his local football club, Stenhousemuir FC, as a community coach and as a volunteer within their ‘Warriors in the Community’ charity arm.

Kenny has been playing walking football at Stenhousemuir FC’s home ground of Ochilview since 2017 but has also played at other venues in the Forth Valley area, Fife and abroad. He regularly features in the Stenhousemuir FC walking football over 60’s squad at regional league fixtures but has also played for St Andrews over 50’s in the East Region league.

in 2019, Kenny was appointed as the Walking Football Scotland Regional Representative for the central region but was later appointed to the board of trustees in May 2021. Following the relinquishment of the chair by David Hyland in December 2022, Kenny succeeded him and was appointed under the new title of president.

Kenny is passionate about the slower version of the beautiful game and intends to continue the good work of the board of trustees in promoting walking football throughout Scotland.

Treasurer - Gordon McAllister

Gordon is Director of Governance and Chief Financial Officer of Active Stirling delivering sport and leisure on behalf of Stirling Council. He was introduced to walking football about seven years ago through the weekly sessions at Forthbank, Stirling Sports Village. Gordon also played at Alloa on Mondays and Fridays until Covid-19 also playing regularly in WFS league and cup competitions for Stirling and on occasions Alloa.

After Covid-19 disruption, Gordon recommenced playing football mostly at Pollok Utd at Nethercraigs and Giffnock SC at Eastwood as well as sessions organised by Glasgow Life.

Gordon is married with two sons and three grandchildren, and joined the WFS board in 2021 with main responsibility as treasurer, managing and reporting on the charity's finances and also assists with WFS league competitions nationwide.

Past President - David Hyland

David is semi-retired and currently employed as the breed secretary (administration) at the Highland Cattle Society. He is married, with four children, and was a relatively new convert to walking football (May 2017), embracing his new lease of life with gusto and is a fervent supporter and active promoter of our version of the beautiful game.

David plays mostly in Forth Valley turning out at sessions hosted by Active Stirling as well as sessions at Alloa, Tullibody and Dunblane.

David has played at Ravenscraig for Stirling Albion and looks forward to continuing to support walking football Scotland and to develop and promote its benefits for all.

He joined the WFS board becoming treasurer with a professional background in accounting before taking over as Chairman from Gary McLaughlin in 2021. David took up the role as Past President in December 2022 remaining on the board of trustees, with Kenny McLean taking the reigns as President.

Matt Ramsay

Matt is current Football Participation Officer for Glasgow Life and has been involved with walking football since 2016.

As part of his working role, he looks to develop walking football across Glasgow creating as many opportunities as possible for more adults to get back involved in the game.

His passion has grown rapidly after seeing the various benefits to all players, not just physically but mentally and socially too.

Matt joined the WFS board in October 2017 and after serving for 2 terms, was co-opted to remain on the board in 2024.

He is fully committed in developing walking football, uniting walking footballers together as well as creating opportunities for across Scotland, for the love of the game!

He is married and has a son, and looks forward to the day of ‘officially’ being old enough to play walking football.

Martin Jack

Martin, or Jacky as he is better known, is Managing Director of Think Different Events Ltd and, for over 40 years, has been organising business to business conferences, seminars and award ceremonies across the UK.

He’s played, coached and managed teams from primary 1 school kids through to amateur teams and, since April 2021, has been involved in the organisation of Walking Football for Giffnock Soccer Centre and more recently Glasgow Life.

During the past two years, he has seen the multiple benefits Walking Football has to offer both physically and socially, for both ladies as young as 40 and above to the Auld Timer members of the club now into their 70s.

He is fully committed to developing Walking Football for all ages, for all skill levels and for all physical abilities and his motto could best be described as  | Get Fit | Get Social | Get Football |

#fitbadaft would also be as good as any hashtag to describe him.

Linsey

Paton-Donaldson

Having first connected with Stenhousemuir FC as a business sponsor for their Men’s Walking Football programme over 10 years ago, Linsey now works with Stenhousemuir FC Community Foundation as the Community Football Co-ordinator for their adult programmes, including Walking Football. She recently joined the Board of Directors at Stenhousemuir FC. As the first female to join the Board at the club, she is looking forward to the challenges of her new role, including as Director of Women’s Football and acting as the conduit between the club Board and the Board of Trustees at the Foundation.

With a passion for community and the power of sport to change lives, Linsey has many years of experience working both commercially and voluntarily within a range of organisations. Having played football for many years, particularly through her teenage years, Linsey experienced a period of ill-health which meant she was unable to play and her options, in terms of her career path and playing recreationally, shifted dramatically. However, despite ongoing medical challenges, she found a way back to regularly playing football through Walking Football at Stenhousemuir FC. Fast forward two years and she is now proud to represent the SFC Foundation and the Club. The positive impact of Walking Football is a constant motivation and inspiration for Linsey, and she is delighted to bring her passion for improving lives through sport to her role as a WFS Trustee.