Thursday evening (16th January) saw the launch of Sport Northern Ireland’s Club Leaders programme. Club Leaders offers free training and resources for those involved in the day to day running of local clubs, covering business and financial planning, marketing, facilities management and governance.

Hosted by Denise Watson, the evening introduced the

11 of NI's 14 Champion Clubs attended Strangford Lough Yacht Club for the first in a series of Champion Club Meetings this past Saturday.

The meetings are centered around best practice and how to run a brilliant RYA Champion Club programme as well as sharing ideas and problems. The furture aims of the meetings are

0930 15th/16th February 2014 - Ballyholme Yacht Club

DOES YOUR CLUB RUN OPEN MEETINGS?

DOES YOUR CLUB RUN A REGATTA?

To ensure your events are the best they can be, then they need to be run using the best practices. That is what this two day course is all about – running through the best and latest techniques to help you run your events.

NOT JUST FOR RACE OFFICERS

In August 2014, East Down Yacht Club, Co Down,  will host the GP14 World Championships. This will see one of the largest one-design dinghy fleets ever to compete on the magnificent waters of Strangford Lough, with several world-class dinghy sailors competing for the top prizes.   

The GP14 has been a popular general purpose dinghy throughout Ireland and GB for over 60 years, with fleets also in Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa and the USA.