1. Sustaining The Urban Club
Ben Corr – Derry City Council
Dermot Dowling – St Brigid’s GAC, Belfast

2. Through Neighbourhood Renewal!
DEVELOPING
SUSTAINING THE URBAN CLUB
Through Neighbourhood Renewal!
BEN CORR
SPORTS REGENERATION MANAGER
DERRY CITY COUNCIL

3. NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL
GAELIC GAMES
&
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL ?

4. NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL?
Strategy Department For Social Development
Theme People and Place
‘Together, tackling disadvantage, building communities’
Ministerial - ‘The impact of the GAA at Community Level’
Address Margaret Richie, MLA, Minister for Social Development

5. NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL – THE CONCEPT
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)

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

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

8. Neighbourhood Renewal Areas
Area Profile
Data Catalogue
Map Catalogue
NRA Profile Postcode

9. Derry – Outer North NRA Demographics Education, Skills & Training
Community
Well Being
Economic Work Deprivation
People
32.7% Aged under 16
59% Aged 16-59
97.7% Catholic community
49.6% No qualifications
22.3% Limiting long term illness, health problems, disability
22.1% Long parent households, deprived children
49.4% Economically inactive

10. Neighbourhood Renewal Strategic Objectives
GAA
Club
Renewal
Community
Economic
Social
Physical

11. Five Strategic Priorities
Ulster Council GAA – ‘Beir Bua Nua’
Strategy
Five Strategic Priorities
Games Development
Inclusion &
Cohesion
Culture &
Heritage
Governance
Facilities &
Infrastructure

12. People and Place ‘The GAA across Ulster …..
….. contributes to local well being
….. builds social capital
….. acts as a community anchor
….. promotes volunteering
….. puts in rather than takes out
….. generates huge financial investment’

13. Neighbourhood Renewal Neighbourhood Partnership Boards
Neighbourhood Renewal Overview - Derry
DSD
(NWDO)
Neighbourhood
Renewal
Unit
Neighbourhood Renewal
Programme Group
Neighbourhood Partnership Boards
Outer
North
Outer
West
Cityside
Waterside
Action
Plan
Action
Plan
Action
Plan
Action
Plan

14. Case Study 1 – GAA Club and Neighbourhood Renewal
Club: Steelstown GAC
N.R.A: Outer North – Derry
N.P.B: Chairman Paddy Cosgrove
Represents both club/sport in general
Physical
Renewal: Clubhouse £540k
£199k DSD
£225k SNI
Environmental
Renewal: Club land – underpass
Club secured fencing/wall £45k - DSD

15. Training and Mentoring Programme Steelstown GAC Community Programme
Social Renewal – Steelstown GAC Proposed Outreach Programme
Economic Renewal
Training and
Mentoring
Programme
Social
&
Economic
Renewal
Community
Renewal
Steelstown
GAC
Community
Programme
Extended
Schools
Programme
Health &
Well Being
Social Renewal

16. Case Study 2 – Clan Na Gael Neighbourhood Renewal
Club: Clan Na Gael
N.R.A: Lurgan (Court Ward)
Funded: DSD
Project
Elements: Participation
Physical Activity/lifestyle
Capacity Building

17. Community Renewal Social/community Renewal Economic/ Social Renewal
Capacity
Building
- Club/School Programme
- Fundamentals Schools
Programme
- Extended School
- Summer Camp
- Easter Camps
- Halloween Camps
Clan Na Gael
CLG
- Community Programme
- Midnight Gaelic
Participation &
Active Lifestyle
- Educational
- Health & Well Being
Community Renewal
Social/community
Renewal
Economic/
Social
Renewal
Social/community
Renewal
Social
Renewal
Social/community
Renewal

18. Case Study 3 – Doire Trasna Na Pairsaigh
Club: Doire Trasna Na Pairsaigh
N.R.A: Waterside – Derry
N.P.B: * Club positive engagement in process
Action
Plan: * Identified their contribution
* Paper;
- Priority Need
- Action Sought
- Desired Outcome
Club
Contribution
To Neighbourhood
Renewal
Need Identified

19. Next Steps: * Funding bid DSD Modernisation Fund
* Pitch/Clubhouse development
* Waterside Partnership Board approved bid
Facilitated
By: Derry City Council, GAA Urban Development Project
(Ulster Council, Derry County Board)

20. Case Study 4 – Activew Citizenship
Lead Agent: Derry City Council, Sports Development
N.R.A: 4 in City
Theme: Capacity Building Programme
National Accredited NGB awards
Funder: DSD (£168k)
GAA
Elements: Level 1 Football
Level 2 Football
Foundation Hurling/Camogie
CPD Workshops
Value: £14k

22. Neighbourhood Renewal - process
‘Buy into it ’
Club – Project Champion!
Paddy Cosgrove
Chairman
Steelstown

23. ‘IT IS NOT WHAT NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL CAN DO
FOR YOUR CLUB, BUT WHAT YOUR CLUB CAN DO
FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL’

24. NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL
&
GAELIC GAMES