Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs AGREEMENT FORM - {{app_data.club}} {{app_data.overseas_name}}

The purpose of this document is to inform selected clubs of what is involved in the Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Programme to ensure their commitment. The Club Chairperson or Club Secretary must be aware of the requirements and agree to submit this agreement form.

The GAA Community and Health Department is inviting your club to participate in Phase 6 of the Irish Life GAA Healthy Club programme following a successful application.

Phase 6 will commence on March 9th, 2024, with a National Orientation Day in Croke Park. Clubs are given 18 months to complete the necessary steps involved in becoming an accredited ‘Healthy Club’ and to document their progress via the Healthy Clubs Portal by August 9th, 2025 (training provided in its use).

Your club will be required to progress through the 7- step accreditation process, as per the requirements of the Healthy Club programme.

The GAA Community & Health team will review the club’s progress following this and successful clubs will be recognised officially in October 2025.

Participation in the project requires:

1. Sending 1-2 club representatives to attend the National Orientation Day;
• Date: Saturday March 9th 2024
• Time:
  • Ulster/Leinster: 10am- 12.30pm (registration from 9am)
  • Munster/Connacht: 1.30pm- 4.15pm (registration from 1pm)

  Please note timings are subject to change, exact timings and agenda will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

• Location: Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Jones Road, Dublin 3 (Parking details to follow)
• Additional: Refreshments and free parking provided.
2. Documenting the required steps via the Healthy Clubs portal over the course of Phase 6. Ensuring that, during the eighteen-month period, representatives from your Healthy Club Project Team will attend:
• Relevant Healthy Club Support webinars and training and engage with your County Health and Wellbeing Committee.
• Attendance, where possible at the Irish Life GAA Healthy Club Conference in November 2024.
• At least two meetings with your County Health & Wellbeing Committee (exact dates will be based on the county committee’s planned schedules).
• Submitting regular reports, via the Healthy Club Portal to help document club progress.

All of the above information will be discussed in further detail at the National Healthy Club Orientation Day.

Data Protection Statement:

During the Healthy Club Project participating clubs will submit various information, reports and media (photographs and video) to promote the club’s engagement and document progress. The information collected will be held by the GAA Community and Health Department in electronic and hard copy format. The information will be processed in accordance with the data protection principles as set out in the applicable Data Protection law, namely the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

The purpose of holding this information is to facilitate the delivery of Phase 6 of the Healthy Club Project (HCP). Your data will be retained by the GAA Community and Health Department for the duration of Phase 6 of the HCP. However, we may retain the information provided after Phase 6 of the HCP has been completed, to provide further support and communication to clubs.

The information held may be shared with members of the National Health & Wellbeing Committee, National Healthy Clubs Steering Committee, County Health and Wellbeing Committees, certain members of County Boards and the National Administrative function in Croke Park. Information may be shared with media partners via press, radio and online channels for promotion purposes. Disclosure of any of your information to GAA Community and Health Department partners, such as statutory bodies, Health Service Executive, Healthy Ireland and Sport Ireland will occur only in accordance with the GAA data protection policy. Explicit consent will be sought from the Club Executive Committee should the GAA Community and Health Department wish to disclose information about your club to any other third party for any other reason.

The right to request a copy of the information held by the GAA Community and Health Department can be sought by the Club/County Executive contacting us. Any information requested will be provided within a month. The right to have information we hold updated, rectified or deleted may be sought at any time, via a request in writing from your Club/County Executive.

For further information relating to your data protection rights or to report a data protection breach please contact the GAA Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@gaa.ie

Use of Media and Photographs:

The GAA Community & Health Department  aims to ensure that the health and wellbeing of members, clubs, and communities is at the core of all GAA activity. This is achieved by providing all units and members of the Association with access to appropriate support and information and enabling them to develop and maintain their optimum health.

In fulfilling our aim, part of the GAA Community and Health Department remit is to utilise media resources, such as video, photographs and audio to promote the activities engaged in by clubs and counties.  Subsequently, reports, videos, photographs and audio materials received by the department from clubs/counties may be distributed to and publicly displayed by the GAA, Provincial Councils, County Boards, other affiliated GAA Club and national/ regional media partners. Please direct any data protection queries to dataprotection@gaa.ie

Consent Form:

We have made our GAA members aware of the important Data Protection information and Use of Media and Photographs and give the consent of our club by ticking the boxes below.

By ticking the following information concerning our club we agree that:

It is understood that the club can withdraw its consent at any time in writing to the GAA Community and Health Department.

The rights of the club under Data Protection Legislation, as outlined above has been read and understood by the undersigned.

Our Club Chairperson/ Club Secretary commits to being part of Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Programme and to fulfilling, to the best of our capacities, the requirements as outlined above.