Sport Northern Ireland Project Re-Boot: Activate has provided £4,860 of match funding
Making up Lost Ground
Enniskillen, Fermanagh and Omagh, United Kingdom
Aim
The Project aims to raise funds to get more people, young and old, more active, more aften and offer an opportunity to socialise afterwards.
Ederney, St, Joseph's are committed to delivering a better quality of fitness and leisure for everyone.
We aim to get more people, more active, more often. We promote healthy and active lifestyles habits, giving our community access to facilities and activities that help improve their health and wellbeing through participation in a range of fitness activities
Community impact
We are a very proud club, with a strong community tradition. We want to retain our youth members and introduce new members from all community backgrounds. We want to offer activities for the whole community including members who are not part of competing teams.
A decline in membership between the ages of 11 & 16 has been noticed in recent years. Covid has had a huge impact on the youth in our community. This age group have went through some of the most important development years of their life's having to social distance. They have missed out on opportunities to meet and build new relationships, develop their social skills, gain confidence while improving the health & fitness and most importantly just been young and having fun. In addition, our older members are not as active in the club as they would have been prior to Covid. They are not attending games or event. They are not offering their services as a volunteer. They are not using the facilities for leisure and fitness activities.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We intend to organise a series of fitness and leisure activities/event over the winter months to encourage and empower disengaged individuals and families to reengagement with the club and its activities. We will offer athletics training, Yoga, Palates, spinning, walking/hiking and specialist wellbeing workshops, delivered in person but also available online for those who cannot attend in person. Traditionally, there are no activities on offer by the club during the winter months. We want to change that. We will ensure that the whole community feels empowered to reengage with the club and feel supported to both engage in activities and offer their services as volunteers. Covid has diminished the level of community engagement, we want to use this money to make up lost ground.
How we’ll spend the money raised
It is our vision to be in a position to offer a Winter Programme of activities suitable for everyone regardless of age or fitness levels in order to reengage some of these lost experiences and make up lost ground. A winter programme has never before been available to members,
To achieve our goals this funding will help;
- Pay specialist coaches to deliver new activities for members, in person and online Tuesday Eve 6 week Yoga, 6 weeks Pilates, 8 weeks walking/hiking (with walking Leader). Thursday Eve 6 weeks Spinning, 6 Weeks Athletics, and 8 Weeks Circuits. None of these activities have previously been offered by the club.
- Purchase IT equipment for the delivery of online activities.
- Purchase equipment for the delivery of the activities, eg mats, blocks
- Offer workshops that have never been available previously - Mindfulness, Mental Health First Aid, Mood Matters, Exercise for Mental Wellbeing, Eating for Mental Wellness, Building Resilience.
How you can play your part
You can help us reach our target, and make this project a reality.
1. Make a pledge. Don’t delay if you’re going to support us because momentum is key to our success!
2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.
3. Offer rewards. Get involved if you are a local business by donating things we can offer to our supporters. We will give you a shout out!
4. If you want to run your own fundraiser to support us, maybe a sponsored activity or similar, use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!
This project successfully funded on 14th November 2022