The club is run by the Athletes and their family members, coaches, volunteers and supporters with members elected to a Club Management Team to oversee the general running of the club.
The club is affiliated to Special Olympics Ulster and Ireland and adheres to Special Olympics policies
All coaches and volunteers are screened by the Police Service of Northern Ireland under the The Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003
All volunteers are given the opportunity to qualify as coaches in both swimming and ten pin bowling.
All Coaches and volunteers are required to attend Child Protection Courses and to update them every 3 three years.
Ten Pin Bowling became very successful with initial numbers rising from about 12 to presently 24 bowlers training regularly every Saturday morning. Such was the club’s success in the 2001 Northern Ireland Regional Finals that we had five athletes selected as ten pin bowling for the 2002 All Ireland Games in Dublin. Three swimmers were also selected for the 2002 All Ireland Games which meant that the club had 8 representatives. This time the cost per athlete was about £300 per person with each athlete asked to contribute £150.
Again all the athletes won medals with the tally between them of 7 Gold, 11 Silver and 14 Bronze with 4th and 5th Place Ribbons also.
2003 saw the Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Dublin, the first time the Games had ever been held outside the U.S.A. Only one Athlete from the two clubs was fortunate enough to be selected and that was Kathy Davison from the Birdies Golf Club.
Kathy’s family and Kathy’s coach’s family together with two of the club’s volunteers, Joanne McCauley and Laura Davison, who were part of the World Games Opening Ceremony in Croke Park, stayed at the Tullyallen Housing Development in Drogheda.
At the end of 2005 the club had 11 athletes selected to compete in the All Ireland Special Olympics Games held in Belfast in June 2006.
The athletes selected were Sarah Alderdice, Kathy Davison, Ann Marie Hughes, Colette Rooney, Ruth Swann and Janet Webb in aquatics and in Ten Pin Bowling the athletes selected were Matthew Beggs, Gareth Cloughley, Kyle Herron, Jane Johnston and Barry Wright.
This time the athletes were asked to raise £250 of the £500 needed to send an athlete to the Belfast Games. Through various fund raising events and donations from people and firms the club raised over £6,000.
This was our most successful All Ireland Games with 11 Gold Medals,
3 Silver, 1 Bronze and 1 4th Place Ribbon in the swimming with 3 Gold,
6 Silver, 3 4th Place Ribbons, 1 Fifth and 1 Six Place Ribbon in the 10 Pin Bowling.