Supported by: Joan McAlpine*, Bill Kidd*, Richard Lyle*, David Torrance*, Stuart McMillan*, Ash Denham*, Fulton MacGregor* *S5M-09691 Annie Wells: First-ever Welcome Football Festival Launches in Glasgow That — the Parliament acknowledges that Glasgow is to host the first-ever Welcome Football Festival to encourage integration of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants into life in the city, and that it is being held at Toryglen Regional Football Centre where mixed international teams will play a mini- tournament and celebrate with a medal ceremony and food at the end of the afternoon; notes that the event is being organised by a subgroup of the Glasgow Integration Forum and Glasgow City Council, alongside Police Scotland, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Partick Thistle Charitable Trust and Govan Community Project; further notes that supporting the event will be players from United Glasgow FC, Afghan United FC, Edu Sport and teams from a number of third sector organisations such as the Red Cross and YCSA.