Laura Costello – Community Manager

Laura is a graduate of Abertay University with a degree with honours in Physical Activity and Health her dissertation focuses on the wellbeing provision within Scottish football academies.  Over the past decade Laura has gained a wealth of knowledge in the role physical activity plays in improving people’s physical, mental, social and emotional wellbeing as well as an understanding of the barriers people experience in becoming physically active within their own communities. Laura has extensive experience working with a variety of people within Dundee communities, ranging from working with young people to help improve school engagement and delivering various programmes such as Football Fans in Training, women’s wellbeing groups and women’s recreational football. Prior to joining the Trust, Laura worked within health and wellbeing and physical activity in various capacities, including assisting in the delivery of the Mental Awareness Course run by the SPFL Trust, working as a Behaviour Change Practitioner with the Scottish Association for Mental Health and as a Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinator.