Vacant (President)
David Hyland (Treasurer)
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, and became Treasurer once again in August 2025.
Campbell Ogilvie
Campbell was a former Scottish football executive. He was the President of the Scottish Football Association, a director of Rangers and managing director of Heart of Midlothian (Hearts).
He was appointed assistant secretary of the Scottish Football League in May 1970. In 1978, he was hired as general secretary at Rangers F.C. and in 1989 he became a director of that club.
At this time, Campbell became a key architect of the formation of a league structure with UEFA’s Champions League.
He joined Heart of Midlothian in November 2005 to undertake similar duties under the title ‘Operations Director’. and was later promoted to managing director in 2008.
In June 2003, Campbell became the treasurer, now second vice-president, of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and in 2007, he became first vice-president of the SFA, taking up the presidency of the Scottish Football Association in 2011, succeeding George Peat. He relinquished the post in June 2015, when he was succeeded by Alan McRae and retired, taking up walking football where he plays twice a week with Drumchapel Utd.
Campbell joined the WFS board in 2025.
Eric J. Riley
Eric is a highly respected figure within Scottish football, having served as a Director of Celtic FC from August 1994. A graduate of Glasgow University and a qualified chartered accountant, he held the role of Financial Director, with overall responsibility for the Company’s corporate strategy, finance, and day-to-day operational areas.
In addition to his long-standing role at Celtic, Eric has made significant contributions to Scottish football as a whole. He twice served as a Director of the Scottish Premier League, amassing over 20 years of service, and spent four years as a Director of the Scottish Football Association. He has also been a Trustee of the Celtic FC Foundation for over 25 years and has chaired the Glasgow FA for almost 20 years.
Beyond his professional career, Eric is an avid sportsman and dedicated supporter of walking football, actively participating in weekly sessions in Glasgow.
Eric joined the WFS board of trustees in 2025.
David MacKinnon
“Davie" MacKinnon started his professional football career at 16 years of age spending 4 years at Arsenal, before returning to Scotland to play with 6 clubs including Dundee, Rangers, Kilmarnock and Partick Thistle. Playing over 600 professional games in his 20 years as a player, he won a Scottish League cap, and several winners’ medals.
After retirement he returned to the professional game, when he was appointed Commercial Director at Clyde FC, then General Manager at Kilmarnock FC, Chief Executive at Dundee FC and Greenock Morton, as well as spending several years at Hamilton Academical FC, where he was Head of player recruitment, as well as Director of Media and communications.
David has had a successful professional business and football career,
which has covered a variety of business and sporting sectors with a focus on
business development, strategic planning, and commercial enterprise. He has also been able to use the principles of football in team-work, communication and setting winning targets, in his senior management roles in business.
Latterly he has been Managing Director of significant business start-ups in finance and media as well as enjoying his walking football, where he plays in the West of Scotland, before joining the WFS board in 2025.
Vivienne MacLaren
Vivienne is a marketing and digital expert with 29 years' experience with both client and agency side. She was a digital marketing agency founder and MD, as well as ad tech advisory board member. Vivienne has held various senior client and agency side marketing, digital and strategy roles in her career so far, covering global markets.
She is a regular speaker at industry events, as well as representing Scottish Women's Football on radio, TV and online in her role as Chair of Scottish Women's Football.
She was a member of the Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Advisory Board (2018-2021) and was named in The Drum's 'Top 30 Under 30 in Marketing' in 2002.
Vivienne has been a huge supporter of WFS for a number of years and became trustee in 2025.
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 before becoming a trustee again in 2025.
He is fully committed in developing walking football, uniting walking footballers together as well as creating opportunities for across Scotland including bespoke sessions for people living with Dementia and Parkinson’s, all 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.
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 where she joined the board in 2024.
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.
