Ulster GAA President Martin McAviney has today launched the new Ulster GAA Volunteer Development Pathway for 2016 which offers GAA club volunteers an opportunity to receive free training to assist with their personal development and build capacity within their individual clubs.
Launching the Ulster GAA Volunteer Development Pathway Martin McAviney stated, “Ulster GAA is committed to the development of our volunteers, both in terms of building knowledge and developing skills. This brand new Volunteer Development Pathway offers our club volunteers an opportunity to receive training, completely free to access, to help assist them in their roles in 2016. But our Volunteer Development Pathway is much more than this, we also hope it will help to build knowledge and develop skills to enhance the capacity of local clubs and to empower our volunteers.
“This Volunteer Pathway builds on the success of Ulster GAA’s Player and Coaching Pathways and focuses on the club volunteer involved in the day-to-day running of a GAA club in governance roles.”
There are four levels to the Ulster GAA Volunteer Development Pathway which begins this Saturday at 10am in Holy Trinity College in Cookstown with Entry Level: Club Officer Induction Award. Saturday’s training is role specific to those NEW to club executives in 2016 to include training for NEW Chairpersons, Secretaries, Treasurers, PROs, Development Officers, Cultural Officers and Child Protection/Children’s Officers. We have already a huge interest in the training on Saturday and anyone yet to register are encouraged to do so without delay by emailing Sharon.haughey.ulster@gaa.ie or phoning Sharon on 02837517180.
The next level in the Volunteer Development Pathway is Level 1: Club Officer Development Programme which is targeted for all club volunteers across all nine counties, the dates of these sessions are as follows:
Date |
Venue |
Targeted Counties |
Thursday 14th January, 7pm-9:30pm |
Abbey Grammar School, Newry |
Down, Armagh REGISTER BY EMAILING sharon.haughey.ulster@gaa.ie |
Saturday 16th January, 10am-12:30pm |
St Mary’s School, Magherafelt |
Antrim, Derry, Tyrone REGISTER BY EMAILING sharon.haughey.ulster@gaa.ie |
Thursday 21st January, 7pm-9:30pm |
St Tiarnach’s National School, Roslea Rd, Clones |
Monaghan, Cavan, Fermanagh REGISTER BY EMAILING fionntan.odowd.ulster@gaa.ie |
Tuesday 26th January, 7pm-9:30pm |
Jackson’s Hotel, Ballybofey |
Donegal REGISTER BY EMAILING fionntan.odowd.ulster@gaa.ie |