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The Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of Charitable Foundations.

I'm your host Keith McGinty and today I'm delighted to welcome a very special first guest,

a man who has risen through the ranks of Celtic Park from polishing the turnstiles

to picking the Paradise Winfaw winners whose charitable work has seen the foundations influence stretch from the Kerrydale to Kenya and beyond.

The Sweet Tooth Celtic Da himself, Tony Hamilton, welcome to the pod.

How are you, Tony?

I'm very well. Thanks very much for having me on,

and it's always good to be the first, that's something I'm normally the last.

I was always the last guy to get picked in the school team. I feel your pain there. I most definitely was myself as well.

But you've risen above that mediocrity, some might say. Maybe not myself. But to make it

quite high up in Celtic, you're the chief executive of the Celtic F.C. Foundation. We're going to have a wee chat

today and the idea behind this pod is to look at the charitable side of Celtic. The great

work that goes on through the fans, through the club and yourselves at helping others. And it's

something that the club was of course based on. I think it could be a long-running series for you

because it's definitely not peculiar to the club's charity

to Celtic FC Foundation.

It's a big, big part of who we are.

Anybody associated with the football club,

whether it's fans groups,

whether it's the Green Brigade or supporters clubs or the Cano Foundation, it's

everywhere. And I think the podcast as well do a lot of this type of work as well. So it's very

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