Fernieside is an area on the southern edge of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It is very close to Craigour

Craigour

Craigour is a district of southeast Edinburgh, Scotland, next to the A7 .It is surrounded on the east by the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary just across the A7; on the north by Liberton Golf Club; and on the west and south by the districts of Moredun, Moredunvale and Fernieside...

, which is just to its north.

Fernieside Football Club

Fernieside Football Club was formed in 1989 by Billy Forbes and Andrew Whitfield. Their clubrooms are at Gilmerton Park, although they originally played at Fernieside Park. The club has eight teams ranging from 9s through to an Amateur team, plus a Kids School. The 2008/09 season saw the introduction of SFA's newly-initiated Soccer 4s, with budding young visiting teams come from the South of Edinburgh and Midlothian

Midlothian

Midlothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area. It borders the Scottish Borders, East Lothian and the City of Edinburgh council areas....

.

As a registered charitable organisation, the club received funding in 2008 from the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

's Children in Need programme, which was earmarked for a playing field to be located adjacent to the clubrooms. The scheduled completion date of the project was November 2008.