ABOUT US

The Tots United story

Tots United® was set up in the West of Scotland by lifelong friends Ajay Singh and Yousif Ahmed after they identified a need for high quality football classes for toddlers and young children.

The duo noticed that there weren’t many options available within their local community and they struggled to find any suitable football classes for their children.

So the guys decided to bring all their experience and expertise together to create Tots United!
Their idea was to provide little ones with an opportunity of being introduced to football and sport at the earliest possible stage in a fun and friendly environment, under the guidance of expert coaches.

The guys carefully developed a fantastic program for toddlers and young children where fun is at the heart of everything that we do and carefully devised an ethos and philosophy of CARE and LOVE that underpins all of our classes (we use this founding philosophy as acronyms for the values that our classes help to teach!).

And with that vision, Tots United® was born in the West of Scotland!

About Ajay & Yousif

Ajay & Yousif both come from strong sporting backgrounds, being two ex-professional youth footballers with various clubs in Scotland and coaching is something that they’ve always been passionate about and done to a high level alongside their professional work (Ajay is a highly regarded PE teacher, and Yousif is an award-winning international lawyer), not just in Scotland but across the UK, in the US and also in Dubai...the guys have considerable experience and an excellent track record in running sport & recreation activities within communities locally, nationally and internationally.

Outside of Tots United®, the guys have an impressive professional background.

Ajay is a secondary school PE teacher with over 12 years’ of teaching experience and has an exceptional track record in producing high attainment within PE across his local authority. For example, in the school year ending in 2022, his PE department secured the top place ranking for student results in National 5 and Higher PE across the local authority.

Yousif is an award-winning international lawyer with over 15 years of extensive business experience in various industry sectors. He ran an international multi-disciplinary legal practice from Dubai for many years, specialising in all aspects of commercial law. In addition to being a trusted advisor to a loyal client base including small, medium and large organisations as well as private individuals, he is also an appointed consultant with various law firms. Yousif has been recognised for his work by a number of legal award bodies both nationally and internationally.

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What makes our founders unique

With both their sporting and professional backgrounds, Ajay and Yousif are a unique partnership in combining their respective skills, experiences and links in the community to bring it all together to make Tots United®. It’s probably not every day you hear about a PE teacher and a lawyer getting together to create such an enterprise!

In creating Tots United®, the guys wanted to encourage and facilitate young children being active and having the best possible start in life, and to help nurture their learning and development, and ultimately support their potential. . 

Why choose Tots United®?

There are so many superb upsides and benefits for young children by being part of Tots United®.

Some of our USPs include

  • An amazing environment where kids can learn and have fun

    Our classes are high energy and super fun! We put fun at the heart of everything that we do and create an environment where children can learn and play in fun and friendly environment.

    In our classes, young children develop a whole host of skills including physical/motor skills, movement, speech, numeracy, colour identification, communication, teamwork and social skills, all of which aim to instill confidence, self-esteem and positive engagement and happiness in young children. 

  • Expert coaches and a high coach-to-child ratio

    Our Founders are ex-professional youth footballers and have a high level of football experience having played with professional youth teams of various clubs including: Celtic, Aberdeen, Hibernian, Queens Park, Partick Thistle, Dumbarton and St Mirren.

    Co-Founder Ajay also a PE teacher with over 10 years of teaching experience. Delivering first-class PE education to children in his day job, he is the perfect role model and coach for all our coaches and sets a very high standard to ensure our classes are consistently high quality and super fun.

    We only take on experienced coaches who are energetic, enthusiastic and passionate about delivering superb fun-filled classes for toddlers and young children.

    At our classes, we typically have around 3-6 coaches at each class! This is an exceptionally high coach-to-child ratio and helps all children to receive a high level of coaching, direction and care in our classes including individual attention for those children who might need a bit of extra help and support.

  • Value for money

    Our classes reflect outstanding value for money! We don’t charge a joining fee (unlike many others), nor do we have a year-long sign up or force you to sign up to a monthly direct debit subscription (like so many others). Our classes are typically booked in advance in monthly blocks and this is the way to secure a place in the class (once spaces are full, we operate a waiting list). Children enrolled in Tots United® also benefit from the ease of auto-enrolment and are automatically enrolled into the next block of classes thus keeping their space in our class.

  • Brilliant venues

    Our classes are held at various fantastic venues – ranging from spacious and well-equipped local community facilities to purpose-built sports halls, outstanding all-weather pitches as well as top class, professional grade sports facilities – we have the best places to deliver “the best classes ever”!

  • Player Pathways

    We have pathways for all children coming through the Tots United® program – our Founders have links with various football clubs so when the children have progressed through Tots United® there is a potential pathway for them to progress further and continue their development with football clubs that we can introduce them to.

    To complement our player pathways, we also offer specialist High Performance one-to-one Personal Coaching - this program is especially suited to those who wish to gain an edge and break into professional youth football or excel in that level if they're already there. This is a special program which we can offer to youngsters showing talent and promise and very much ties in with our football pathways for talented young footballers coming through Tots United®.