Ireland Active Christmas 2017 Newsletter
Merry Christmas! 

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for your continued support throughout the year and we look forward to working with you in 2018.

As we draw towards the end of another year it is a good time to look back at all we have achieved on behalf of our members over the past year and of course what we could improve upon for the coming year...

Programmes and Advocacy 
  • Budget 2018 submission to government on retention of the 9% VAT rate and other tax and policy measures
  • National Fitness Day with support from Healthy Ireland Fund and Sport Ireland
  • Get Ireland Swimming programme launched and funding from the Healthy Ireland fund
  • LetsBeActive programme with Europe Active funding received and launch in January 2018
  • IBEC Workplace Wellbeing Day partnership
  • CARA Centre Fit4All partnership
Policy and Standards
  • Submission on National Sports Policy (to be launched in 2018), meeting with Minister Griffin to discuss scheduled for January 2018
  • White Flag standards recommended by Dept of Local Government value for money review
  • Regulation of the Aquatic Leisure Industry with IWS initiated
  • European Fitness Standards meetings and draft document produced
Events and Networking 
  • Leaders Forum (February)
  • Strategic Plan regional meetings (February/March)
  • White Flag regional meetings (April)
  • FIBO, Cologne drinks (April)
  • AGM and Strategic Plan launch (September)
  • Annual Conference, REPs seminar and White Flag Awards attended by over 320 people across the day (November)
Member Services
  • New Safeguarding training launched for the leisure and fitness sector
  • Pool plant training courses delivered
  • Garda Vetting for over 2,000 staff in the sector
  • REPs register growth
  • Audits for REPs education providers
  • Guidance on the new Children First 2017 and Garda Vetting legislation

Christmas Opening Hours:
We will be closing on Friday 22nd December and re-opening 2nd January 2018. 



Conn, Niamh, Vincent, Stephanie, Fintan and  
the Board of Ireland Active

Our updated Bank Details

Our Bank details are as below, please update these on your system if you haven't already, as our old Account (081) will be closing in the new year.

Bank: AIB Naas
Account Name: Ireland Active Leisure Management CLG
IBAN: IE95 AIBK 933236 73976035
Account No: 73976035
Sort: 93-32-36
BIC: AIBKIE2D

Thank You!

Training Courses

We will be running ISSPC courses in the new year. The first course will be running in the Dublin area early March. If you are interested in hosting this course please contact Niamh at niamh.norton@irelandactive.ie 

If there are any courses you would like us to run in 2018 please let us know. Potential courses courses might include, Social Media, Membership Systems, GDPR, Customer Service.  


 
 Survey European Health & Fitness Market

The  EuropeActive (EA), supported by Deloitte, conducts a survey on the European health & fitness market each year. The results of this survey will give an insight into market development and trends in the fitness sector. Thus the survey will contribute to this growing industry and is a great tool for you as well as for suppliers, investors, politicians and other stakeholders.
 
The survey will take only 5-7 minutes. Please fill out the questionnaire as completely as possible. In return for your participation we will provide you with the results of your country.
 
Click here to start the survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/ea-fitnessmarket2017/ 
 
We respect your privacy:  
Your information will be kept strictly confidential. The evaluation of the data is only in aggregated anonymous form. The disclosure of individual data to third parties is excluded.
     
If you have any questions concerning this survey do not hesitate contacting us.
Thank you very much for your support!
 
Best regards,
Herman Rutgers

Board Member
EuropeActive 
herman@hrutgers.eu
Björn Lehmkühler

Senior Consultant
Deloitte Sports Business Group 
blehmkuehler@deloitte.de
 
EuropeActive
Avenue des Arts 43 | B-1040 Brussels | Belgium
Web:
www.europeactive.eu 
 

National Fitness Day - Competition Winners

Thank you to all the facilities who entered their members into a competition as part of National Fitness Day to win a €250 membership voucher. The draw was made last week with Sport Ireland and the winners will be communicated to the facilities this week.
Ireland Active ,
 Irish Sport HQ, National Sports Campus, Blanchardstown,
 Dublin 15, Ireland
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