BGK Academy

01/10/2026

🧤 OCTOBER 1-2-1 SESSIONS ARE LIVE 🧤
Looking to sharpen up over the October break? We’re running 1-2-1 goalkeeper sessions at Dawson Park from the 12th to the 23rd of October, with limited dates and times available.
Every session is a one hour slot built entirely around your keeper: building on their strengths and pushing them on in the areas they want to develop.
📅 Available dates and times:
Monday 12th: 12pm to 1pm
Wednesday 14th: 11am to 3pm
Thursday 15th: 2pm to 3pm
Friday 16th: 10am to 4pm
Wednesday 21st: 11am to 3pm
Thursday 22nd: 2pm to 3pm
Friday 23rd: 10am to 4pm
Only 15 spaces available, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.
📩 DM us now to get booked in!

28/09/2026

Gloves, boots and kits… thanks so much to everyone who donated! 🧤⚽️

We’ve now reached the point where we physically can't take any more so thanks again for all your generosity 🫶🏻

The only thing left that helps is money…

Every pound goes on set-up, equipment and providing much needed meals within the communities Calum will be helping in the Western Karongi District of Rwanda 🙏

Help Calum Brodie raise money to support Scottish Football for Rwanda

25/09/2026

Who’s side are you on? 💙 v 🧡

13/09/2026

Shetland News on Calum's Rwanda trip, and we could use your help.

Over the October holidays Calum is out volunteering with Scottish Football in Rwanda, taking a few suitcases of gear with him.

Old boots, kits, training gear, and ESPECIALLY goalie gloves. Drop them at The Shetland Bookshop in Lerwick in Tasha’s name before Friday 18th September.

A dedicated Dundee drop-off point is in the works however if you give them to one of the BGK coaches they will make sure it is packed and taken to Rwanda!

If you’re able to afford to donate even just a few pound then £20 buys bibs, £50 a bag of balls, and a few hundred kits out and runs a full youth team for a year. Link in the comments.

Have you got any pre-loved football gear lying around, which could go to a new, loving home in Africa?

The Shetland Bookshop is hosting a drop-off for football boots, kits, training kits or goalkeeper gloves that could go to be worn by youth football teams in Rwanda.

The idea is the brainchild of goalkeeper coach Calum Brodie, a popular and well-kent face in Shetland, who will spend two weeks in Rwanda next month teaching football.

Read more via the link in the comments:

03/09/2026

BGK's Head Coach is looking for your help! ⚽🧤

This October Calum is travelling to Rwanda with the Scottish FA to help lay the foundations for the local community to use football as a tool to improve their communities!

While he's out there, his days will be spent delivering coaching sessions for kids across different communities, handing donated kit, balls and boots into the hands of youngsters who have next to nothing and training up local coaches so the work carries on long after the trip ends. Some of the areas Calum will visit are still rebuilding after everything Rwanda has been through, which makes the impact of proper coaching, kit and consistency even bigger.

It's the same belief BGK is built on: that the right coaching and the right environment can change a young player's path, wherever they're from and no matter their background!

If you've ever had a session with us, watched your goalkeeper grow in confidence or just believe in what we do… this is a chance to help us take that passion and energy to a part of the world we never thought being a goalkeeper coach would take us.

Every penny raised covers set-up, coaching equipment and financial support for the community programmes we're heading there to create.

We know that times are difficult just now for everyone but no donation is too small, every penny raised helps Calum ensure he is arriving with enough resources and goalie gloves to make a real, lasting difference!

We will also be running a used Goalkeeper glove donation drive the next month so if you have any old gloves laying around please bring them along to any BGK session and we will gladly take them off your hands! 🧤

If you can, please follow this link to donate:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/calum-brodie-1

01/09/2026

Monifieth Athletic Football Club is asking the local community to take a few minutes to complete our public consultation and share your views on proposals for the future development of football and sporting facilities at Riverview Park.

Parker Bay Consultancy & Leadingham Jameson Rogers & Hynd are playing a lead role in the development of the project, working alongside Monifieth Athletic FC and the wider project team to support the funding strategy, business case, governance and overall development of the proposals.

Whether you’re a player, parent, supporter, volunteer, local resident or simply someone who cares about the future of sport in our community - we want to hear from you.

📝 Complete the public consultation here:
www.parkerbay.co.uk/monifieth

Your feedback is important and will help ensure that the views and aspirations of the local community are properly understood as the project develops.

📍 Drop-in Public Consultation
We will also be holding a drop-in consultation event at The MAC, Monifieth, on Monday 14 September between 10am and 4pm.
Representatives from the project team will be available throughout the day to discuss the proposals, answer questions and hear your views.

📍 The MAC, Monifieth
📅 Monday 14 September
⏰ 10am-4pm

Please complete the consultation, share the link with friends, family, fellow supporters and the wider community, and encourage as many people as possible to have their say.

30/08/2026

📍 NEW BGK BILLBOARD IN LERWICK 👀

Went up overnight, right by the Clickimin. Has anyone driven past it yet? Let us know if you’ve spotted it 👀

Anyway…

BGK ACADEMY RETURNS TO SHETLAND IN OCTOBER ⚽🧤

🗓 Mon 19th - Fri 23rd October 2026
📍 Clickimin 60:40, Lerwick
⏰ 9:00am - 3:30pm daily, late pickup available

⚽ Outfield camp in the mornings (09:00-12:00)
🧤 Goalkeeper camp in the afternoons (12:30-15:30)

Daily challenges, theory workshops and a full week of football fun over the October break. You don’t need to be a keeper to enjoy the afternoons either… there’s loads of shooting and finishing in there for outfield players too!

Booking now available now 👇
🔗 bgk-goalkeeping.classforkids.io/camp/81

We can’t wait to see you all again!

27/08/2026

Shetland Women’s Football has been going from strength to strength recently with some great results and news. It’s always a pleasure working with the goalkeeping duo of Katie and Jess!

Good luck to the girls in the intercounty! ⚽️💙

Squad for intercounty in Orkney this Saturday. We’re delighted to have squad members that were involved in last years island games, including Katie Anderson who makes an intercounty appearance before returning to Dryburgh Athletic for the season. We also have a number of debutants and returning senior players back into the intercounty contest after being away from the game.

Squad for Sunday’s Scottish Cup game subject to further announcement, watch this space!

09/08/2026

Last week we finished our Dundee Train Like a Pro Camp and tomorrow we look forward to our final and funnest camp of the summer! ☀️

Five days, a brilliant group of goalkeepers, and a serious amount of hard work. Diving, distribution, 1v1s, crosses and plenty of laughs in between. Every single keeper who came in got better and that’s all we want to see. Well done to all of you, and thank you to the parents who backed them and gave them the opportunity!

⚽️ ULTIMATE GK CAMP starts TOMORROW
📍 Riverview Pitches, Monifieth
📅 Monday 10 to Friday 14 August
⏰ 10am-2pm (early drop off and late pickup available)

This is our 5th annual Ultimate GK camp and it’s the one the kids and coaches look forward to all summer. Daily challenges. Prizes to be won. And yes, beach training is back.

The forecast has been kind to us too, with 24 degrees and sunshine on the way midweek meaning our annual beach training day is looking like it’ll be a good one!

If your goalkeeper has nothing on this week and you want to get them training and having fun among other keepers then this is your chance. All ages, all abilities, complete beginners very welcome.

Final spaces available. Book now before we start tomorrow morning 👇
🔗 https://bgk-goalkeeping.classforkids.io/camps

09/08/2026

Last week we finished our Dundee Train Like a Pro Camp and tomorrow we look forward to our final and funnest camp of the summer! ☀️

Five days, a brilliant group of goalkeepers, and a serious amount of hard work. Diving, distribution, 1v1s, crosses and plenty of laughs in between. Every single keeper who came in got better and that’s all we want to see. Well done to all of you, and thank you to the parents who backed them and gave them the opportunity!

⚽️ ULTIMATE GK CAMP starts TOMORROW
📍 Riverview Pitches, Monifieth
📅 Monday 10 to Friday 14 August
⏰ 10am-2pm (early drop off and late pickup available)

This is our 5th annual Ultimate GK camp and it's the one the kids and coaches look forward to all summer. Daily challenges. Prizes to be won. And yes, beach training is back.

The forecast has been kind to us too, with 24 degrees and sunshine on the way midweek meaning our annual beach training day is looking like it’ll be a good one!

If your goalkeeper has nothing on this week and you want to get them training and having fun among other keepers then this is your chance. All ages, all abilities, complete beginners very welcome.

Final spaces available. Book now before we start tomorrow morning 👇
🔗 https://bgk-goalkeeping.classforkids.io/camps