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Aim

Reintroduce young people to an active lifestyle. Teaching them to adapt positive habits that will improve their health & well-being.

Ederney, St, Joseph's are committed to delivering a better quality of fitness and leisure for everyone. 

We aim to get more young people, more active, more often. We promote healthy and active lifestyles habits, giving our children access to facilities that help improve their health and happiness through participation in a range of fitness activities.

• Dual Club offering both Football and Hurling, boys and girls teams.

• 150 youth members

• Fundamental games for kids as young as 3 years old.

• Competition games for 18 youth teams.

• State of the art facilities, including two playing fields, changing facilities, indoors studio, Gym for over 16's.

We are a very proud club, with a strong youth tradition. We want to retain our youth members and introduce new members from all community backgrounds.

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.

It is our vision to be in a position to offer the appropriate programs to this age group to recapture some of these lost experiences.

To achieve our goals this funding will help;

• Provide foundation coaching for 15 volunteers including a Child Safeguarding course.
• Provide essential first aid training to all lead coaches.
• Implement 6 week program (phase one) S&C training for girls aged 11 to 16.
• Purchase appropriate equipment, including ladies Olympic bar bells, Activation bands, Dumbbells and additional free weights.
• Purchase playing equipment, including balls, poles, cones, bids, hurdles.
• Purchase team playing kits to give a sense of togetherness
• Offer workshops on Nutrition, to include review sessions.
• Offer seminars on Mental Health Awareness, Alcohol and Substance abuse.
• Arrange team building days. Surf Day, Mountain hike.

This project successfully funded on 4th March 2022