COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

MOTION NO. 16

MOTION: Councillor R. Nolan

"That this Council continues to support and aide and assist Esker Boxing Club on their  continued endeavour to secure a site for a premises for their boxing club."

REPORT: 

The Council continues to have ongoing contact with Esker Boxing Club and two members of the Local Community Team have met with representatives from the club on a number of occasions in the last eighteen months to discuss issues and offer support. In recognition of their contribution locally, the clubs have received grant aid from the Community Department. 

The Council does not provide premises for individual clubs, or complete solutions to individual requirements. In keeping with our broad based community mandate, we do provide financial assistance and have a number of support programmes to this end including the Community Initiative Fund.

The Community Services Department has advised the club, that supporting financial assistance is a realisable ambition. The club will however also need to fundraise, or seek additional funding from alternative sources, including the Sports Capital Programme and the Irish Amateur Boxing Federation.

The Council notes that the club is very active and progressive with a lot of success locally and regionally and that their recent efforts to secure alternative premises did not work out and they have now returned to the school in Esker. The club have continued to advocate for their own premises, however having examined their most recently submitted proposal and while noting that it was commendable, the overall view was that the proposal was a little premature. The proposal was considered to lack real and concrete information on management, finances from an income and expenditure basis and that the groups mentioned within the proposal were not necessarily a good sustainable fit.

The Community Services Team will remain in contact with the club and offer further support and advice going forward.