APRIL 2024

NOTICE OF BARNA SPORTS PARK ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The committee of Comharchumann Bearna Teoranta (Barna Sports Park) hereby gives notice of its 2024 Annual General Meeting.

This AGM will be held in The Twelve Hotel, in the main (top floor) function room, at 8pm on Tuesday the 16th of April 2024.

The AGM is open to all paid members of Barna Sports Park and members are encouraged to attend. Interested members of the wider Barna Community are also welcome.

January 2024

New Booking System for Tennis Courts

Please note that as of January 2024, a new court booking system will replace the previous Skedda system and will apply to courts 1 and 2 only (the upper courts beside the playground). It will no longer be possible to place bookings on Courts 3, 4 or 5. To use the new ‘Acebook’ booking system for Courts 1 or 2 members will need to first register (‘sign up’) via the following link - https://www.myacebook.net/mobile/club_selection.

Once the member registers, the committee will confirm membership and the member will then be able to book a court by logging in with their chosen user name and password at the above link.

JUNE 2023

REMINDER: Annual memberships for 2023/2024 are now due for renewal. Please re-join using the Membership option at the top of this page. Thank you to those who have already renewed!

New members are always welcome. However, please note that the sports park membership year runs from June to June so new memberships taken out within the membership year will incur the full fee but will run only to the following (first) June.

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All basketball backboards, hoops and nets at the sports park have been replaced. We hope you enjoy them.

Barna Sports Park is a community organisation which is financed via a membership fee.

Please support the park by purchasing a membership https://www.barnasportspark.com/pay-membership

We have enabled a fob system for controlling access to the courts - access to the courts is for current members with fobs only.

Rules for use of Playground

  • Children must be supervised in the playground at all times

  • Groups of over 12s are not allowed to meet / gather in the playground

  • Dogs on or off a lead are not allowed in the playground

New volunteers welcome

Barna Sports Park, including the tennis courts and playground and community (village renewal and beach clean-ups and fundraising) is managed by a team of volunteers from the local community, who form the Barna Sports Park committee - and there is a huge amount of personal time committed completely free of charge.

We would ask any Barna Sports Park member who is interested in getting involved in the running of Barna Sports Park to please consider joining our committee and becoming part of running and planning the future of tennis and community in Barna. Contact us at barnasportspark@gmail.com

The more volunteers we have, the more ambitious a programme we can adopt for the future and it is a great way of getting to know people in the local community. We have ideas for improvements - however, we really need more volunteers to help get these ideas into action.

The Courts

Barna Sports Park's tennis facilities comprises of five high quality tennis courts. We have three state-of-the-art polymeric surfaced tennis courts with integrated basketball courts. In a separate enclosure, there are also two brand new textile surfaced courts. 

the playground

'Lios na NnÓg' playground was officially opened in January 2015 following four years of fundraising, hard work and negotiation by a group of a voluntary group. The dream of creating a Children’s Playground in Barna was brought to reality with team work, fundraising and, crucially, the support of Barna Co-Op and the Leader programme allocating 100K in funding to this project. The balance of 40K was raised within in the community by the voluntary committee.

Our playground is testimony to community spirit, to people coming together and being committed to doing something positive in their community.