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Developing Club Facilities. John Ryan. Developing Club Facilities. Assessment of what the club has - are we a club for all seasons, or just a seasonal club ? Have we adequate training and playing facilities? How are our dressing rooms, showers, toilets, referees rooms? Do we host games?
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Developing Club Facilities John Ryan
Developing Club Facilities • Assessment of what the club has - are we a club for all seasons, or just a seasonal club ? • Have we adequate training and playing facilities? • How are our dressing rooms, showers, toilets, referees rooms? • Do we host games? • What about covered accommodation and public toilets? • Do we require a hurling wall? Indoor or outdoor? • Do we require astro turf area for training in all weather? • Do we need a sports hall and catering facilities?
Prioritising our needs • Better quality playing facilities? • Buildings which will compliment our existing facilities? • The purchase of extra land? • Signpost Booklet.
Long Term Planning • Very necessary in order for a club to run it’s affairs on and off the field. • With financial constraints, clubs should be budgeting for developments over a few years.
Selecting Personnel to Research our Priority Project • A sub committee with a defined Terms of Reference should be established. • If the project relates to land development or acquisition, consider local Teagasc adviser or soil consultants, in tandem with suitable club members. • If the project relates to building, perhaps somebody in construction ( retired or otherwise), local engineer, architect , or dynamic club people should be considered.
Report to Club by Sub Group Including projected costs should include. • Details of examinations of similar nature projects carried out by other clubs. • Details on the contractors or builders in the area, their areas of expertise, levels of competence etc. • A projected costs analysis based on other clubs experience in order to give a clear picture of the clubs liability.
After Planning Permission – Supervision of the Project; • Supervision to be carried out, preferably by a person with experience in the field – could even be a retired professional.
Finance Committee • To raise the necessary funding.
Pride of Place “No man can love his land and race if he has not pride in his native place.” • The value of voluntary input in terms of painting, cleaning, planting etc. • The greater the number of volunteers on the team, the better. • Protection against vandalism.