Player Injury Scheme 2016

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Created on Wednesday, 11 May 2016 15:29

Player Injury Scheme – St Joseph’s Glenavy GAC

The GAA mandatory scheme provides benefit to St Josephs Glenavy members playing Gaelic Games. The GAA Player Injury Scheme is NOT an insurance scheme.  It is a benefit scheme for the purpose of giving an injured player a "dig out" if they have no other recourse for their medical expenses. St Josephs Glenavy pays the premiums in respect of paid up registered members for cover during matches and official training sessions.

The Injury Scheme is funded entirely from Club and GAA funds.  There is no legal obligation on the GAA to provide such a Scheme.  Risk is an inherent factor in sport.  When members voluntarily take part in club activities, they accept the risks that such participation may bring.

The Injury Scheme does not seek to compensate fully for injury but to supplement other Schemes such as Personal Accident or Health Insurance.  The Scheme only provides cover for unrecoverable losses up to €4500. (Note a typical ACL injury can cost in excess of €6000.)

The excess on the Scheme is €100.

Ultimately, the responsibility to ensure that adequate cover is in place lies with the individual member.

How do I claim?

The claim form can be downloaded from www.gaa.ie by clicking on the “Player Injury Schemes” icon.

The claim form should be fully completed and forwarded together with all relevant supporting documentation (official medical receipts are required – invoices are not acceptable) to the Club Secretary for signing.

All claims are required to be reported to Willis Insurance within 60 days of the incident.  Claims reported outside the 60 day period will not be processed. Claimants must allow 5 working days for the claim form to be validated at both the Club and County Board level.

Further Information on the GAA player injury scheme can be found at www.gaa.ie

Volunteers Wanted

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Created on Saturday, 26 March 2016 14:35

The club are currently looking people with an interest in helping St Joseph's becoming a stronger club in 2016. If you or anyone you know are interested in helping the club in anyway by volunteering your time, then please do get in touch.

 Coaching

We currently have 283 underage players at our club and the numbers are growing. 2015 was a successful year for our teams and to ensure this good work continues, it is important that we have enthusiastic people on board. Coaching experience and qualifications are not a requirement as these can be completed through the club.

Volunteers

As many of you already know we run several large fundraisers every year and these take quite a lot of organisation. If you would like to help at any of these or think you may have ideas to improve our fundraising events then we would be delighted to hear from you.

Development

2015 saw St Joseph's Glenavy spend in excess of £100, 000 on its grounds. We plan to further add to our facilities in 2016 and beyond. While we have an excellent Development Committee with a structured plan, we would like anyone living in the community who feel they could assist to come forward to help on this committee.

This list is not definitive and we are an open club, keen to attract new members

 who want to help develop  St. Joseph's  Glenavy GAC in any way .

Drug and alcohol awareness

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Created on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 16:15

St. Joseph’s GAC would like to invite you to a evening, following the implementation of our Alcohol and Substance Abuse Policy.
An OCN Level 1 course has been arranged for the young people (12-17 year olds) of club starting on Tuesday 21st January 2014 for 4 weeks, from 7pm-9pm. in Ballymacrickett Primary School to be delivered by ASCERT - Clare McFarlane, youth training officer.
A one off parent session will also be available on Tuesday 21st January from 7pm-8pm, in Ballymacrickett Primary School by ASCERT community support worker Jamie Rea.
To book a place please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Big Dander

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Created on Thursday, 24 March 2016 11:06

Big Glenavy Dander: 4th October, 9am to 6pm

 Many of you will be aware of the recent work being done at our grounds at Chapel Hill. We are delighted to announce that our new walking path, part of Phase 1 of our Development Proposals, is complete!  In order to raise awareness of this new community facility and officially open our new walking path we are inviting all members of the community, young and old alike, to come and join us in a bid to walk 500 miles…

 This phase of our developments was made possible in part due to funding secured from The Alpha Programme (for more details see below) and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their assistance and support throughout this project. Mel Waddell, representative from The Alpha Programme Steering Group said, upon the commencement of works in July, “It’s great to see that work has started on site for both the pitch and path improvements and we look forward to returning to see the project completed and being used by the local community.”

This is a facility for the whole community, so if you can come join us and do even just 3 laps of the path you will have completed 1 mile and there will be only 499 to go!  The more people who participate on the day, the faster we can hit our target! Who knows, maybe we could go even further! We will walk 500 miles, but can we walk 500 more??? (The Proclaimers won’t be there unfortunately…or indeed fortunately!) More details to follow in the next few days.

Thanks for your continued support!

The Alpha Programme

Established in 2008 by Alpha Resource Management Ltd, The Alpha Programme is managed by Groundwork NI and has already provided just under £3million in funding to nearly 90 biodiversity and community based projects within ten miles of the Mullaghglass landfill site outside Lisburn. Information on the Programme can be downloaded from www.groundworkni.org.uk or contact Mel Waddell at Groundwork NI on (028) 9074 9494 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

 As of Monday 27th of July our main pitch will be shut for maintenance work to be carried out. As a result and due to the heavy plant that will be involved our facilities will be closed from 8am-6pm each week day as a matter of health and safety. Our training pitch will now be used to cater for training and all games will be played away from home until 2016.