Ryan Feeney Urban Club Development Urban Development Urbanisation

Ryan Feeney Urban Club Development

Urban Development Urbanisation is a vital challenge for the GAA Ulster GAA focus over the next five years Derry City Urban GAA Project Belfast City Urban GAA Project (Upper Springfield Project Pilot)

National Urban Development Committee Twenty two targeted initiatives in each one of the key urban areas Provincial and County Urban committees Existing resources dedicated to this challenge

Urban Development 2008 2002 • Urban GAA Strategy Place with Project board • Six Urban Clubs (three rural clubs in the district) • All 9 Clubs no involved in the project (project board) • Four GAA pitches • One coach for the city (placement student) • Four more GAA pitches being developed with a new “shared” 3 G pitch • All clubs will have a home ground by mid 2010 • No GAA pitches • Full-Time GAA Urban Community Development Officer in Derry City Council (This post has secured £ 1. 8 million of public investment to GAA in the city) • No council provision or support • Five coaches (1 GPO and 4 Schools Coaches) • No summer camps or youth programmes • GAA high priority for the city council- Land leased to clubs for pitch development by Council with a total value of over £ 2 million • Low GAA provision • Over 1000 participants at annual summers camps • Three female teams • One female team • City wide development squad feeding into County squads

Urban Development Belfast Upper Springfield Project • Focused on Three Clubs (Years 1 and 2) Ulster’s Sleeping Giant • Focus will expand to North/West Belfast year 3 • Feeder Club Population 550, 000+ • Female participation Priority CDU • Linked to overall Belfastfor Strategy • Community Officer/Community Coach in place Belfast Rising, Strategy for the GAA in Ireland’s second city

Neighbourhood Renewal (Six Counties) • Strategy - Department For Social Development www. dsdni. gov. uk • Theme - People and Place ‘Together, tackling disadvantage, building communities’ • Ministerial Support

A GAA CLUB Gaelic Sports Identity Drugs & Alcohol Schools Suicide Prevention GAA CLUB Health & Wellness Employability Culture & Social Events Bereavement Support Community

A GAA CLUB Neighbourhood Renewal Strategic Objectives Renewal Community Economic Social Physical

• Deprivation - 1 in 6 of the population 280, 000 people approximately 10% of most deprived neighbourhoods Nobel Multiple Deprivation Measure Neighbourhood Renewal Areas 36 designated by Department for Social Development • • - Belfast (15) Derry (4) Coleraine (2) Limavady, Strabane, Armagh, Ballyclare, Ballymena, Bangor, Brownlow, Coalisland, Downpatrick, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Lurgan, Newry, Omagh, Portadown (1)

DEPRIVATION • Deprivation - Multi dimensional * health * education * housing * physical * economic • Tackling It - Integrated approach

• Department for Social Development • Website • • - Urban Regeneration - Neighbourhood Renewal • People and Place – Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal • • • Partnerships – Information and Guidance • Related Strategies N. Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service

Pontential Funding

Pontential Funding FULL LIST OF NEW COUNCILS • Belfast City Council • Derry City and Strabane District Council • Armagh City and Bann District Council • Lisburn City and Castlereagh District Council • Newry City and Down District Council • Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council • Ards and North Down District Council • Causeway Coast District Council • Fermanagh and Omagh District council • Mid-Antrim District Council • Mid-Ulster District Council Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan County Councils Remain the same

www. ulster. gaa. ie/club-maith

Assessment Folder and Tool-kit

Tool-kit

Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs www. pobail. ie • Community Development • Local Development RAPID Parts of Counties: • RAPID Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan • National Drugs Strategy • Volunteering • Rural Development • Irish Language • Islands