Dublin City Council’s Sport and Wellbeing Partnership yesterday launched its new strategic plan to get more people active in Dublin over the next four years.
The Partnership has outlined three key objectives to improve the quality of life of those living and working in Dublin; to provide as many opportunities as possible to engage in sport and physical activity and to be recognised as a national leader in sport and wellbeing.
These objectives are backed up by four strategic goals to be implemented between now and 2021 and further broken down into 26 specific actions.
The Partnership incorporates different parties from across the sports, business and government spectrum. Dublin GAA, Leinster Rugby, the FAI, the Federation of Irish Sport, Tennis Ireland, Swim Ireland, The Department of Health, Google and Sport for Business all have representation on the Partnership with Fiona Coghlan serving as Chair.
With a budget of €15 million per annum, 18 dedicated sports officers and 20 more co-funded officers with different national governing bodies, Dublin has the size and scale to do things right and can set a real benchmark for how local government and sport can most effectively work together to drive a healthier nation.
The crossover as well from active sport to other forms of physical activity is an important one to get right as every form of movement is of some benefit and there are a number of exciting initiatives planned for later this year to bring that to life.
