A Glasgow football club founded in 1872 that plays at Ibrox, trains at Auchenhowie near Milngavie, and runs the Rangers Charity Foundation for community and education work.
Rangers is a professional football club in Glasgow. It has played at Ibrox since 1899, and the current stadium, designed by Archibald Leitch, opened in 1929 and is a Category B listed building. The club's training centre is at Auchenhowie in Milngavie, which opened in 2001 as the first purpose-built facility of its kind in Scotland. It has nine pitches, a gym, a hydrotherapy pool and a video-editing suite. Around 140 young players aged under-10 to under-19 train there, and the club's academy is one of its main routes for finding new talent.
Rangers was founded in March 1872 by four teenage boys who met at West End Park, now Kelvingrove Park, in Glasgow. Its first match was against Callander in May 1872 and ended goalless. It has won the Scottish league 55 times and the Scottish Cup 34 times. After a difficult 2012 the club restarted in the lower divisions and returned to the top flight in 2016-17. We could not read a club mission statement. The club's charity, the Rangers Charity Foundation, says it aims to be "a force for good" for the Rangers family.
The club is based in Glasgow. The Foundation was created and registered with the Scottish charity regulator OSCR in October 2002 and is based at Ibrox, in Argyle House in the Sandy Jardine Stand. A 2017 article from the Foundation said that since April 2016 it had run more than 20 programmes in Glasgow on health, diversity, education and employability, reaching over 5,000 people, and that coaches delivered programmes in 67 primary and secondary schools. It also runs a multimedia classroom in the Broomloan Stand with Glasgow City Council, staffed by a qualified teacher. These figures are from 2017.
On people and culture, the Foundation's own account describes a community built around supporters. Fans who raise over £100 or volunteer for 25 hours or more become "True Blue Heroes". The Foundation runs a Dream Fund, which gives people experiences such as a Dream Day with the first-team squad, and a Tickets For Good scheme that provides free match tickets to people who might otherwise miss a game. Its yearly Charity Ball draws about 500 people. These are the organisation's own claims, written in 2017, and may have changed.
The roles at a club like this include coaches and academy staff, groundstaff and stadium operations, matchday teams, and the commercial, media, finance and people teams. The Foundation's work needs community coaches, teachers, project workers and fundraisers. The sources we read do not give staff numbers or describe the women's team, so we cannot say more about those parts of the club. For current opportunities, the club's website and the Foundation's pages are the places to look.
Website: www.rangers.co.uk
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