July 2024 to June 2025 – Achievements and Performance Review.
Physio. We also started our new Futsal partnership with Sparta Belfast.
Under 19 European Championship Finals. Our facility was selected as a training ground for the teams which added a cosmopolitan feel to the club for a few weeks in July .
With the Community elements of the club on their summer recess, towards the end of the month a club walk was undertaken from Carrickfergus Castle to our Clubhouse in aid of 2010 player Oliver Burnside to support him with his ongoing medical concerns. Finally a club wide Community Tidy Up day took place, in which approximately 200 players, coaches and parents took a day to go around the
August
Girls teams into leagues, with our 2014 team entering the SBYL league and our 2018 & 2019 teams entering the small sided games programme in Belfast.
in June 2025.
Sad news came the way of the local community in September of this year. The local Church of Ireland had been decimated in a fire. We met with the Church to offer our support and as a result our
arranged a 12 hour sponsored cycle, done from our own club gym in which club members would come down and cycle on the gym bike. In total £660.00 was raised from this, with the amount rounded up to £1000.00 and this was donated to the Church of Ireland rebuild fund.
On the pitch, the highlight of this month was our Women First Team reaching the NIWFA Super Cup final, albeit the result in the final did not go in our favour against a strong Ballymoney United side.
A busy period over October and November seen our disability team the Greenisland FC Bears take a step forward when 25 players across 3 teams entered and played in the IFA’s Inclusion for all Programme. This was very warmly received by the players, coaches and parents alike.
The Futsal programme between us and Sparta Belfast started up and this involved a number of our teams and players taking part in the game of Futsal.
Media pla�orms, Lewis Baxter joined our club for work experience. Lewis was tasked with promo�on of the club in general, enhancing our visual graphics on post and doing promo�onal videos with our various Heads of Phases.
The club commi�ee also approved proposals from our 2015 and 2016 age groups to a�end football tournaments in Ayr, Scotland at Easter 2025 and also for our Over 35’s Mens Titans team to a�end a one day football tournament in Falkirk, Scotland in May of 2025.
We also had visitors from Italy in the form of Andrea Padilla from Macron. Macron is the clubwear supplier and it was great to welcome Andrea all the way from Bologna to show him our club and discuss possible joint ventures for the coming months and years with Macron.
December , all thanks to the Sport NI Renewable Energy fund. This resulted in a vast improvement to the quality of light on this pitch at nights. As well as new floodlights, the fund also extended to new lights in the clubhouse. All in all, making our facility more energy and cost efficient.
We also had a visit on the 4[th] of this month from Minister for Communi�es Gordon Lyons, along with local councillors, members of Mid & East Antrim Borough Council and NI Football Fund
representa�ves. A�er showing around our facility and the work we do, we had the opportunity to discuss with the minister funding opportuni�es, the upcoming NI Football Fund and Conference League criteria.
clubhouse and the Boxing Day “Overs v Unders” Charity match.
The new year started with the good news that our Children in Need Grant had been renewed for another 3 years, bringing in £9,900.00 per year towards our Community Projects and sec�ons. January also seen former 2007 age group player be rewarded with a Professional contract by Cli�onville FC.
And in the same month, works started on our Car Park Extension, which in conjunc�on with Mid & East Antrim Borough Council would see the car park space double in capacity. It was accepted this was a major development which would cause some disrup�on in the coming months while works took place.
February seen us receive some bad news, in that the Cuppa Club was not successful in our renewal funding request from the Na�onal Lo�ery. This was of course a blow to the club, but it was decided that regardless the Cuppa Club would con�nue with the club absorbing costs as best we could whilst alterna�ve funding was sought.
March our big 3G pitch received some much needed maintenance including decompacta�on. The works required were simply down to the pitch showing signs of wear and tear with it now being 6 years old and in constant usage.
It was a last quarter of the year with a lot going on in April and May. With Laurence Gilloway re�ring from his role as Community Officer and funding of this role via the Na�onal Lo�ery ending, we moved our Community sec�on and various teams/clubs to being on a Volunteer led basis again. On the football front, a number of informa�on evenings took place with club coaches and parents around the newly implemented IFA Framework. As well as informa�on evenings, our clubhouse also
hosted an IFA Safeguarding course for all the new club coaches and volunteers who had joined over the last few months.
The 2015 and 2016 age groups had successful trips to Ayr and in another club trip development, permission was granted to our 2014 age group to spend a weekend in Manchester late in the summer of 2025.
teams. The invite to this was extended to the parents and siblings of players plus the local community.
With the month of June
rounded out with two former players becoming professionals, namely Kallum Thompson at
Last but not least, we celebrated our 30[th]
club.
asct ME thon Stuart McClean Chairperson