Play & Leisure Partnership
The Carrickfergus Play & Leisure Partnership menbership is made up of partners from the statutory, voluntary, and private sector. The aims of the partnership is to support the delivery of improved play and leisure opportunities within Carrickfergus Borough for children and young people of all abilities through the coordination of partner activities aimed at meeting locally identified need and the objectives of the play and leisure strategy. This multi agency partnership group led by Carrickfergus Borough Council has been set up to help deliver the regional play and leisure strategy in response to government support, public consultation, and to review sources of funding and opportunities to develop and deliver priority projects for play and leisure provision in Carrickfergus Borough.
Experience has highlighted that the adoption of a play partnership approach involving key agencies, local communities, and children and young people can provide an effective mechanism for delivering against both strategic and operational goals of play providers. The purpose of establishing a partnership group within Carrickfergus Borough is to bring together expertise from across a range of settings with a view to progressing the strategic and operational delivery of play and leisure within local communities.
Objectives of the Partnership
- To raise awareness of play and leisure for children and young people within their partner organisations and the wider community.
- To ensure that service planners and providers make strategic and operational decisions with reference to potential impact on play and leisure.
- To publicise, promote and disseminate the play and leisure strategy and implementation plan across relevant bodies in Carrickfergus Borough.
- To support and influence decision making on service delivery and resource allocation by appropriate commissioning bodies, with a view to progressing local strategic area planning.
- To achieve synergy between partnership member groups to maximise available resources (both financial and otherwise);
- To review and develop Play Partnership membership on an ongoing basis, developing new connections and appropriate partnerships over time.
- To monitor progress towards meeting the objectives contained within the partnership local area action plan.
- To liaise with the local community about the progression of the play and leisure strategy.
The Partnership will operate for at least the duration of the play and leisure strategy (2011 to 2016).
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For further information please contact:
Stephen Daye, Parks & Countryside Development Officer
Telephone: 02893358039
E-Mail: play@carrickfergus.org
