Top Mayo GAA club launches five-year strategic plan

CASTLEBAR Mitchels GAA Club has launched its five-year strategic plan.

Club chairman Finian Joyce outlined the exhaustive consultative processes the club undertook in the preparation of this ambitious and challenging plan for the next five years.

Central to the plan are the values of volunteerism, inclusion, integrity, recognition, respect, teamwork, enjoyment, excellence, ambition, innovation and community.

The plan builds on these core values, an in particular on central role volunteers play in the club, and the importance of the club to Castlebar and the huge support it gets from Castlebar.

The plan proposes the following:

A major emphasis on coaching, particularly at underage level, and to ensure that our young player acquire and develop all of skills of the game.

This also includes greater involvement with coaching in local schools and the appointment of a Club School Liaison Officer to ensure that the young players are receiving information on our club activities.

The appointment of a club coach and greater investment in the training and upskilling of all club coaches. A mentoring scheme is proposed for young players as they transition from underage to adult football to ensure that a very high proportion of our young players come through to adult football.

The construction of an 86m x 60m 4-G training area is proposed among a raft of improvements of facilities for players, members and the public.

A major emphasis on player wellbeing and health with a series of proposals to continuously up-skill the all our players, coaches and club families.

Enhanced internal and external Club communication so that members and supporters are connected and informed through traditional and new media streams of all events happening in the club.

Greater use and promotion of the Irish language, greater participation in Scór, and more regular Club social event in an Sportlann.

Enhanced control of expenditure, increased fundraisings, greater use of an Sportlann and overall adopting a business approach to all club expenditure to meet the additional costs of implementing the plan.

The establishment new club structures and subcommittees, each with clearly defined roles, to deliver this Club Strategic Plan over the next five years.