The Five Year Strategic Plan

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The Five Year Strategic Plan
2006 - 2010
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Background

• Ulsters Beir Bua Nua
• Its strategic priorities
• Governance
• Games Development
• Facilities/Infrastructure
• Culture Heritage
• Inclusion Cohesion
• Ulster wants each county to use these five
  headings as guidelines when drawing up their own
  plan

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An Beir Bua Nua

• Five Prong Framework

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Activity 1-Why?

• List about 4/5 reasons why Antrim should have a
  strategic plan

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Process

• County Exec appoints SPG (Strategic Plan Group)
• SPG consults with clubs, various county
  committees, players, schools etc receives
  feedback
• One day workshop to organise and prioritise
  issues
• SPG draws up plan
• County Exec approves plan
• County Comm/clubs ratify plan

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Inputs to Plan

• Will include submissions from
• Clubs
• Players
• Various County Committees
• Divisional Boards
• School Representatives

• Statistics and information sourced from reliable
  surveys and organisations

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Content of Plan

• Will use the five strategic priorities to
  identify areas that Aontroma CLG needs to develop
  over the next five years
• Governance
• Games Development
• Facilities/Infrastructure
• Culture Heritage
• Inclusion Cohesion

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Content of Plan

• Plan will use headings that include
• Issue
• Rationale
• Strategy
• Person / Group responsible
• Expenses
• Expected outcomes
• Year 1,2,3, 4 or 5

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Time Frame

• Feb 2006 County exec establish SPG
• Feb March SPG meet to draw up their plan of
  action
• Mar 30th Apr 4th SPG meets with clubs to
  explain what they are doing
• Apr 18th Deadline for feedback from clubs
• May 2006 Workshop to identify main issues
• June 30th SPG produce plan
• Nov SPG monitor progress of plan

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Activity 2

• What are your expectations for the Strategic Plan
  for the Antrim GAA?
• Discuss in small groups (5 mins)
• Feedback (5 mins)

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Aims of Tonight

• To outline the rationale of a Strategic Plan for
  Antrim GAA
• To discuss expectations of the process
• To identify issues and areas for improvement in
  Antrim GAA
• To complete questionnaires
• To distribute questionnaires for clubs and sub
  committees

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The Questionnaire

• Club Context
• Big Issues-How were organised
• -How we run our games
• -How we run our facilities
• -Culture and Heritage
• -Open and Welcoming
• Five key issues
• Anything else

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Examples of Issues

• Goverance -Communication between sub committees
  could be improved
• Games Development -fixtures schedule needs to be
  reviewed
• Facilities/Infrastructure -Clubs have shortened
  pitches available for juveniles
• Inclusion and Cohesion -More women are directly
  involved in GAA activities
• Culture and Heritage - Promotion of culture
  through Scor is reviewed
• Anything Else -No official Antrim Supporters Club

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Activity 3

• Form small groups, discuss issues and fill in
  questionnaire
• Feedback

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What do we need from you after tonight?

• Go back to your clubs with another questionnaire
• Call a meeting of club members
• Discuss the questionnaire
• After the discussion, complete the questionnaire
• Return to Liam O Kane by 18th of April 2006

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The Strategic Plan Group

• Would like to thank you for attending and for
  your
• co-operation in helping to produce a plan that
  hopefully will bring Antrim forward!

• My County,
• Our County!