Strategic launch April 13th

Post date: Apr 06, 2017 12:47:20 PM

Following months of work and over 500 hour of voluntary labour, the Executive Committee of Edenderry GAA will launch its Strategic Vision & Action Plan 2017 – 2022 in the presence of President Elect of the GAA, Mr. John Horan and the Vice-Chairman of Leinster Council, Mr. Pat Teehan on Thursday 13th April 2017.

Contained within the plan are the ambitious proposals to improve community sporting infrastructure in Edenderry. Building on the success of earlier plans the club began consulting its membership as early as 2015 in order to gather opinions on our shared future. The long awaited purchase of additional lands - a goal of our 2010 plan - was the catalyst for further planning.

Experiences from preparing the 2010 plan demonstrated that the consultation phase was one of the most important stages of the process and therefore the club consulted widely. The process began with listening to the membership of the Club. In October 2015, a club planning workshop was held in the GAA Centre in conjunction with our Architects Cummins + Voortman with our own members, people from the wider community and particularly members of Edenderry Swimming Pool. This workshop focused solely on infrastructure.

However a second workshop was held in 2016 when we formally commenced our plan review. The resulting output of the new Strategic Vision & Action Plan is ambitious, but achievable, and underpinned by the ‘One Club’ model, whereby the family of Gaelic Games, both Ladies GAA & Men’s GAA will work together to provide the best sporting infrastructure possible for our local community.

We recognise that providing the necessary finances will be challenging, but we as a group are committed to achieving our goals. We will work with others, particularly Edenderry Swimming Pool, to ensure that al proposed infrastructure can be delivered. We therefore, welcome the entire community to our Launch where copies of the plan will be available.

In addition our Architectural Team will be present to display the detail of our proposals, including 3-D models. This is an exciting time for the Club and we hope as many people as possible can attend and hear what we have outlined for the future