1. Urban Club Development
Ryan Feeney
Urban Club Development

2. 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)

3. 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

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

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

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

7. A GAA CLUB

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

9. 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)

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

11. 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

12. Pontential Funding

13. 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

15. Assessment Folder and Tool-kit

16. Tool-kit

17. Tool-kit

18. Tool-kit

19. Tool-kit

20. Tool-kit

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

22. For more information on RAPID
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
For more information on RAPID
Tel:  E

23. Strategy in place

24. Conclusion GAA Clubs are about Place. Develop the Urban Place
Conclusion GAA Clubs are about Place! Develop the Urban Place! Lobby, lobby, lobby Link with Ulster Council and Urban Strategies Club Maith

25. E-mail queries@ulster. gaa. ie clubmaith@ulster. gaa
Web-sites

26. Question Answer and Discussion Go raibh maith agat