Kicking Covid out of Play

Aim

Help us reboot our Club and rural Community by donating to our build back better programmes in Dorsey.

About our Club

Since reforming in 2000, the club has achieved a number of notable successes both on and of the pitch. Just 3 years after reforming, in 2003, the Club took on their most ambitious project which was fundraising for their own pitch. The Club raised £100,000 through local community donations and ticket draws to purchase 7 acres of land and transformed it into a full size playing pitch. Subsequent years followed with further Community fundraising to develop Clubrooms, state of the art gym and a walking trail most recently. 

On 15th April 2007, Dorsey Emmets played their first league game in the newly developed Rory McGee Park.   

In 2012, Dorsey Emmets achieved a Gold Standard Club Maith award; only the seventh club in Ulster, and the second club in Armagh to do so. Club Maith is a club accreditation scheme which allows clubs to be benchmarked against best practice standards across the full range of GAA activity. The Gold award is only conferred on excellent clubs. 

The existing facilities cater for 100+ members across senior (aged 18+) and Juvenile (aged 6-18), both males and females. We have Club activity at the facility going all year round, with training starting from January. We have teams commencing from under 6, 7.5, 9.5 senior. And we have joint teams with a local club under 11.5, 13.5, 15 and 17.

Our Vision for this Project:

Our vision is that everybody has the opportunity to be welcomed back into our Club activities after Covid19, so to take part in our games, sport, activities and recreation. We want to grow and develop into the future and inspire our rural community to keep a lifelong involvement with our Club and Community of Dorsey.

Our Mission for this Project:

- Over the last 2 years with Covid its been a difficult time for our Club, our members and community.

- Because of the restrictions we have been unable to kick on with Club programmes and developments such as our youth and community programmes. We have also missed out on planned fundraisers, which the Club has relied on each year.

- We have started back our training and there has been a huge interest from people looking to get back out to training.

- Therefore, we want to build the club back to where it was pre Covid, and deliver new enhanced programmes that cater for not only our members but those in our community who were most effected by Covid19 over the last 2 years.

Our Crowdfunder campaign will help us raise vital funds to support our youth sections and older community members, by purchasing equipment, delivering health and fitness wellbeing programmes on our walking trail for example, as well as supporting all our teams build back from Covid19.

- Funds will allow us to deliver workshops on emotional wellbeing and dealing with stress, as well as healthy eating and strength and conditioning.

- Funding will also allow us to develop our girls teams by promoting the Club to enhance membership among underrepresented groups such as girls.

- Vital funds will also help us support our volunteers through enhanced equipment and opportunities now moving forward.

- We want to run a number of out of school programmes during the weekends and holidays for local children. Funding raised will allow us to do this as well.

Please support our campaign and help Dorsey Emmets GFC Build Back Better from Covid19. 

This project successfully funded on 28th June 2023