2007

Offaly Sports Partnership established a Travellers in Sport working group in 2007 with the remit of developing actions and strategies to increase Traveller participation in sport and physical activity.

This group established a two pronged strategy of: -

1. Developing a training programme to equip a number of Travellers with the skills to deliver peer led sports and physical activity programmes to the wider community of Travellers in the county;
2. Securing funding, possibly through a labour market scheme to employ a number of the aforementioned trainees to deliver the activity programmes to other Travellers;