Special Olympics Ireland Limited (A Company Limited by Guarantee and Not Having a Share Capital)

2013 Annual Report "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."

Special Olympics Ireland Athlete, John Donohoe 2 FRONT COVER: Special Olympics Ireland Athlete, Laura Rumball Contents

Chairperson’s Statement 04 2013 Highlights 06 Programme Reports 07 Ireland Games 12 Sports Highlights 13 Club Development 15 Athlete Leadership 16 Family Programme 18 Volunteer Services 19 Training 19 Research 20 Health Services 21 Marketing, Communications and Fundraising 23 Support Functions 29

3 Chairperson’s Statement Chairperson Mary Davis

Chairperson’s Statement

2013 was another year of sustained progress and development for Special Olympics Ireland with many wonderful sporting achievements and successes enjoyed by our athletes, not only in Ireland but also on the international stage. Amidst the ongoing difficult economic and financial circumstances, facing not only the charity sector but the country at large, it is a testament to our organisation that we continue to develop the programme and services offered to our athletes in such challenging times.

2013 started with great excitement as Team Ireland – consisting of 14 athletes – travelled to PyeongChang in South Korea for the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games. The athletes enjoyed fantastic success at these Games in January with the Alpine and Floorball teams giving a great account of both themselves and their coaching teams.

Of course, World Games represent only a part of what Special Olympics seeks to deliver week in and week out in our 378 clubs across the country. 2013 also saw fantastic participation levels in competition events held across the country as 4,100 athletes competed in 67 Regional Competition Events, the second stage in our four-year competition cycle. Out of this number a team was selected to continue on to participate at the Special Olympics Ireland Games to be held in Limerick in June 2014. 1,500 athletes will compete at these Games and from this event; a team will be selected to represent Team Ireland at the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles in 2015.

4 2013 also saw selections made for the 2014 European Games with 46 athletes selected to participate in seven sports in Antwerp, Belgium in September 2014.

A huge thank you must go to our army of volunteers who, as ever, worked tirelessly to inspire, train and support our 9,223 athletes. Club volunteers are the backbone of the movement. Together with those who volunteer at our events, these individuals are key to ensuring the delivery of our service is maintained into the future. Special Olympics Ireland welcomed 1,486 new volunteers in 2013, bringing the total number to 25,566. This level of growth in our volunteer numbers will be crucial to sustaining the programme into the future and we are committed to ongoing improvements in the training we oﬀer to volunteers.

There was also steady growth in the number of new athletes, with 682 joining the programme. 2013 also saw a focus on the amalgamation of a number of clubs in order to provide a better service to the club athletes and to best utilise the time and expertise of our volunteers. In all, nine new clubs opened their doors. This consistent growth reaﬃrms the need for a continued focus on providing opportunities for athletes within their own local communities.

Special Olympics Ireland is determined to sustain and where possible to continue developing the programme of sports and training that we oﬀer. Coach and athlete education and training remained a key strategic focus during 2013 with 78 development sessions held across various diﬀerent sports within the programme. Participation in Special Olympics not only changes the lives of our athletes but also their families. As such, a key aim achieved in 2013 was increasing the number of registered families which reached 8,524 with the programme by the end of 2013.

2013 also aﬀorded an opportunity to reﬂect on past achievements. In June 2013 celebrations were held to mark the 10th anniversary of the Special Olympics World Games. This inspiring event captured the imagination of the public a decade ago and the ongoing legacy was marked by a series of events around the country featuring some of this country’s best known sports personalities. The celebration was also a chance to re-engage with the general public and to remind the country of what is possible when our nation unites with a common purpose.

While there was much to celebrate in 2013, we cannot escape the stark financial realities the organisation continues to face. Special Olympics Ireland has had to contend with numerous challenges, not least the reduction in public grant funding, but also the difficulties associated with voluntary fundraising. As a result of this we report a deficit of €1.1m for 2013. That said, fundraising activities with the general public continue to be a major factor in generating required funds. The generosity and deep affection shown by the public to our athletes was on full display on our annual Collection Day in April in 2013 which raised €484,997 and was actively supported by 3,000 volunteers.

We look forward to 2014, the year of our Ireland Games, and the platform this will oﬀer to showcase the transformative power of Special Olympics to everyone connected to the movement. Thank you most sincerely for the part that you have played and continue to play in helping us to realise our promise of changing lives.

Mary Davis Chairperson

5 Electric Ireland’s Powering Kindness campaign coaching session at Gonzaga College, Ranelagh, Dublin

2013 Highlights 682 new athletes Volunteer Service Recognition Pins 9 new clubs distributed to 3,600 long-service volunteers 1,962 new family members Enhanced online training for new 1,486 new volunteers volunteers and for Transition Year 14 athletes participate in the 2013 students Special Olympics World Winter Games, Research on a longitudinal research Pyeongchang, South Korea in Alpine study into the relative beneﬁts of Skiing and Floorball being involved in Special Olympics 4,100 athletes participated in regional programmes gets underway events 7,075 Twitter followers 791 coaches attended coach training 121,656 visits to 500+ Athlete Leaders engage in www.specialolympics.ie volunteering, ambassadorial and 2nd place in the Electric Ireland advocacy roles ‘Powering Kindness’ competition 53 new clubs adopted the Health resulting in a donation of €40,000 Promotion Programme into club activities

6 2013 Special Olympics Programme Report Highlights 682 new athletes 14 athletes participate in the 2013 734 athletes attended development Special Olympics World Winter Games, training Pyeongchang, South Korea in alpine skiing and floorball 4,100 athletes participated in regional events 73 athletes from 33 clubs attended Athlete Code of Ethics and Good 791 coaches attended coach training Practice Workshop 62 Coach Education and training 64 volunteers attended Athlete opportunities offered Protection and Medical Officer 16 development sessions held for trainings coaches and athletes

2013 got oﬀ to a tremendous start with Special Olympics Ireland’s team of 14 athletes travelling as Team Ireland to participate in the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games held in PyeongChang, South Korea in January. The team, accompanied by their coaches and management team, had 6 athletes competing in Alpine Skiing and 8 athletes in Floorball. Prior to the start of the Winter Games, the city of Seoul hosted the Irish team, along with the Jamaican and Isle of Man delegations, and there was an opportunity to relax, acclimatise and take in some of the wonderful Korean culture over three days. The Opening Ceremony took place on Tuesday 29th January in YongPyeong Dome, PyeongChang and competition got underway the following day.

Floorball was offered for the first time at these World Winter Games and the Irish team went straight into divisioning pool matches and competition. Team Ireland was placed in the 2nd division with Switzerland, Austria and the host country South Korea. The quality of play was outstanding and Team Ireland’s Floorball team finished in the Bronze medal position, an outstanding achievement at this level of competition.

World Winter Games Floorball Ireland v Austria 7 Alpine Skiing took place at YongPyeong Resort, an ideal setting and with good snowfall conditions were perfect for competition. Divisioning took place over the ﬁrst few days followed by competition and the many months of hard work and training were very evident in the overall results of three Golds, six Silver and three Bronze medals, plus four 4th place ribbons and two sixth place ribbons. There were a number of personal bests achieved in Alpine Skiing and of particular signiﬁcance was the achievement of one athlete who was moved from novice up to intermediate level, a huge achievement for any athlete.

Team Ireland was very well supported by the family members who travelled to the Games and by staﬀ from the Irish Embassy, including the Irish Ambassador, Mr Charles Sheahan and a group of Irish people who are living in Seoul travelled up to YongPyeong to support the Irish team. Tremendous thanks must go to the management team and coaches who worked with the athletes from selection through training to competition at the Winter Games. These volunteers gave tirelessly of their time and their commitment to each member of the team was outstanding. Thanks must also go to those family members who gave great support to the entire team which was so much appreciated. In April, President Michael D. Higgins warmly welcomed Team Ireland, their family members and other guests to Áras an Uachtaráin, a ﬁtting tribute and recognition for the team and much appreciated by all.

On the competition front in 2013, a total of 4,100 athletes participated in 67 Regional Competition Events across the programme hoping to advance to the Special Olympics Ireland Games to be held in Limerick in June 2014. When the programme of Regional Advancement Events were complete, selection of athletes took place during June and July 2013, resulting in 1,500 athletes advancing as competitors, across 5 regional delegations, to compete at the highest level of competition within the Special Olympics Ireland Pogramme. Later in November 2013, selections were also made for the 2014 European Games which will take place in September 2014 in Antwerp, Belgium and a further 46 athletes were selected in seven sports. Squad trainining and coaching sessions got underway in September for the Limerick Games and European Games training in Januray 2014.

The Irish Entourage at the Special Olympics 8 World Winter Games, YongPyeong, South Korea FAI Chief Executive, John Delaney, at National Cup Final at Malahide United Football Club

In the Football Programme, the 11-a-side Men’s Cup and Plate finals took place on 11th and 18th May. The Football Cup took place in Malahide United Football Club, the training venue for the Irish International Soccer team and Mr. John Delaney, Chief Executive FAI, attended the Cup Final to observe the teams’ performances and to meet the players. The Football Plate final was held at the AUL complex in Clonshuagh. Dundrum Athletic Special Olympics Club was victorious in the Cup while Bray Lakers won the Plate final. In preparation for the 2013/2014 league season, all 11-a-side football teams attended a training session in August and received a comprehensive pack of materials in relation to the league and confirmation of a September start date.

As grading athletes has become an integral part of selecting teams for advancement to higher level competition events, the existing football grading tool was re-designed in collaboration with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).

Training on the use of the new grading tool and on how to grade athletes was delivered to all ﬁve regional programmes and work began on a Football Grading DVD to assist coaches in the future. This DVD project is co-funded by the FAI and is due for completion in 2014.

9 A similar type grading tool was recently developed for basketball and has proven very successful during the 2013 Basketball Grading sessions held in each region. Another development in basketball was the Skills Development opportunity oﬀered to athletes from 12 to 15 years of age as part of European Basketball week in November.

In addition to this high level of competitive activity, coach and athlete education and training remained a key strategic focus during 2013 resulting in the delivery of 78 development sessions held across various diﬀerent sports within the programme.

In collaboration with Coaching Ireland, a Bocce Level 1 course was developed to provide a new qualiﬁcation progression for coaches who completed the Bocce Introductory Course and 12 coaches completed the initial pilot course.

12 volunteers graduated as Coaching Ireland Level 2 Tutors at a ceremony hosted by Special Olympics Athlete Nicole Redmond, with certiﬁcates presented by Olympic Bronze medallist, Cian O’Connor. Special Olympics Ireland now has a total of 26 qualiﬁed tutors in the organisation, 12 at Level 1 and 14 at Level 2. The commitment given by this group of individuals to the continued education of our volunteer coaches is immense and ultimately ensures that the training delivered to our athletes is maintained to a very high level.

In line with Special Olympics Strategic Plan, a number of Sport-speciﬁc reviews continued in 2013. Further to each review, Development plans were formulated based on the input received and needs identiﬁed. 4 Development plans were completed in the sports of Gymnastics, Floorball, Kayaking and Golf.

Special Olympics Ireland Athlete, Lisa Maher, from Inniscarra Blues 10 Special Olympics Club, County Cork, in action at the World Summer Games, Athens, 2011 Special Olympics Ireland continues to be represented on the National Training & Education Framework working group along with Coaching Ireland, the CARA Centre and the Disability Sport National Governing Bodies (NGBs). The working group launched the Disability Inclusion Training Programme in September which is now being oﬀered throughout the country via the CARA Centre and Local Sports Partnerships.

Continuing to address a key objective of the 2012 – 2015 Special Olympics Strategic Plan, further publications were developed to meet the need for Special Olympics sports-speciﬁc guideline documents. These new publications complement the sports document developed in 2012 and seek to enable our coaches to make more educated choices on a number of topics speciﬁc to Special Olympics sports programme. The publications include Sport and Event Selection, Coaching Mixed Age and Mixed Ability Groups and Inclusion and Integration through Sport and they now complete the large range of sports materials available for our coaches and athletes.

Special Olympics Ireland hosted two European Coach Education Training Courses on behalf of Special Olympics Europe Eurasia. A Golf Leader course, led by PGA Professional, Gillian Burrell was delivered on 11th May in Kinsealy Grange Golf facility. As this sport does not as yet have a coach education structure other than through the Professional Golf Association, the Golf Leader course was developed in Ireland to ﬁll a coach education gap for Special Olympics volunteer coaches in golf. The course was attended by 13 participants from 9 European programmes, including Ireland. The second course was a Michael Phelps Swimming Method of Coaching, hosted in the National Aquatics Centre, from 25th to 27th June. Four tutors from the Michael Phelps Foundation delivered the course to 16 coaches from across Europe, as well as two coaches participating from Special Olympics Ireland. A number of young children from St. Vincent’s Children’s Intervention Service attended a practical session on one of the days and this was hugely beneﬁcial to the children and to the service.

11 2014 Ireland Games Planning for the 2014 Ireland Games, due to take place in Limerick from June 12th to 15th got underway with contract discussions with sports venues and delegation accommodation providers. For the ﬁrst time the registration process for the delegations attending the Games is being managed electronically via the Games Management System (GMS), which minimises greatly the paperwork previously involved with registration. All registration materials were distributed to the delegation management team in June 2013.

Qualifying pool matches in the 11 a-side football competition for the 2014 Games took place in October and November, following a grading day in September. Four teams have now qualiﬁed for the two ﬁnal matches to be played in Limerick on Saturday June 14th.

Following a tender process, Kukri were selected as the oﬃcial uniform supplier to the Ireland, European and World summer Games delegations.

The ﬁrst Games Organising Committee (GOC) meeting was held on 7th November with great positivity and excitement, with 23 experienced volunteer planners and coordinators from the 2010 GOC returning to take on key roles again.

Commitment to Anti – Doping Compliance Guidelines

Special Olympics Ireland supports a drug-free ethos and, while no testing takes place in the programme, Special Olympics Ireland is fully committed to adhering to the Irish Sports Council’s Anti-Doping compliance guidelines as they relate to Special Olympics Ireland as a National Governing Body.

12 Sports Highlights from around the Regions Connaught 12 Regional Advancement 5 training courses for Sports Officials Competition Events, with 908 athletes were held in the sports of Bowling, competing Bocce, Athletics, Basketball and 7 Non-advancement Competition Aquatics with 60 volunteers trained. Events held, involving 518 athletes New winter sport, Floorball, introduced, with 50 athletes and 2 League competitions, in the sports of volunteers participating from 9 clubs Tenpin Bowling and Bocce 7’s Grading of athletes took place in both Leinster Football and Basketball 15 Regional Advancement Development Day took place in Competition Events delivered in a new Athletics targeted at schools and scheduling format of 4 multi-sport covered sprints, long jump, shot putt Competition Event Programmes plus 1 and mini javelin one-day event Event Management training took place 3 Non- advancement competition in Sligo, Mayo and Galway with a events held in Bowling, Golf Skills and number of new volunteers in Motor Activity Training Programme. attendance 3 year-round Leagues Competitions 7 a-side Football was introduced held across the sport of Bocce, during the 5 a-side Development Day, Basketball and Football with 120, 119 facilitated by the FAI and 105 athletes respectively participating in each of the leagues Eastern Region Regional Sports Forum took place on 13 Regional Advancement 7th December, with 98 coaches in Competition Events ,with 1,341 attendance athletes competing 10 coaches completed Athletics 1 Non-advancement Competition in Association of Ireland coaching Open Water Swimming, with 10 courses, 5 coaches completed a pilot athletes competing Level 1 Bocce course and 10 coaches Year-round League Competitions in the completed Badminton Ireland sports of Aquatics, Basketball, Bocce, coaching courses Bowling, and Football, involving 1,062 athletes Regional Sports (Coach) Forum took place in July, with 61 coaches attending 7 Development Events in Athletics, involving 188 athletes and 65 volunteers and Pentathlon event introduced to the Regional Programme for the first time 2 Introduction to Coaching Practices courses delivered and 6 sport specific coaching courses were held in Athletics (two courses), Aquatics, Eastern Area Event Bowling, Bocce and Golf June 16th, 2013

13 Munster Ulster 14 Regional Advancement 13 Regional Advancement Competition Events held, with 1,303 Competition Events, with 689 competing competing, 262 of who competed in 16 Non-advancement competitions more than one sport held, with 1,080 athletes taking part 2 Development Days held in aquatics, Men’s and women’s year-round league the ﬁrst had a total of 26 participants competitions held in Basketball and and the second day had 31 participants Football, with 150 and 190 athletes 3 year-round League Competitions taking part respectively held in the Basketball, Bocce and Regional Sports Forum took place in Tenpin Bowling the University of Limerick, with 35 Regional Coach Forum took place on coaches in attendance Saturday 2nd November in Omagh, 8 athletes from Munster represented with 26 coaches in attendance Ireland for the ﬁrst time at the World 3 Introduction to Coaching Practices Winter Games in South Korea in the courses were held during the year, sport of Floorball, winning a bronze with 28 volunteers trained medal

Munster Floorball Team 14 Bronze Medalists in World Winter Games Club Development

New (2013) Total Numbers (December 2013)

Athletes 682 9,223

Clubs 9 378

2013 saw the amalgamation of a number of clubs in order to provide a better service to the club athletes and to maximise the use of the volunteers’ expertise and time. A small number of Intellectual Disability Service providers also withdrew from providing a Special Olympics sports training and competition programme and athletes from these services were oﬀered places in local Special Olympics community clubs.

With increasing numbers in some clubs, 2013 saw an increasing trend towards these clubs oﬀering a Junior and Senior sports training options for their members. In some cases, there is now a need to assess the need for a second club in some localities due to increasing memberships.

With growing use and development of the new Raiser’s Edge (database) software, the Annual Affiliation process was refined in 2013 and saw an earlier completion date of mid-December. With more up-to-date and easily accessible information, there is now greater scope to identify volunteer gaps and training needs at club level. Clubs continue to avail of a number of training opportunities including Membership Officer, Public Relations, Code of Ethics and Intellectual Disability module training

Club Programme Highlights from around the Regions: Connaught Eastern Region 89 new athletes resistered 119 new athletes resistered 48 Club Support and Engagement 2 new clubs aﬃliated visits completed 31 Club Support and Engagement 18 athletes completed the Athlete visits completed Code of Ethics Course 31 athletes completed the Athlete 28 clubs participating in the Health Code of Ethics course Promotion Programme 12 new clubs participating in the 6 Regional Meetings held and 1 Health Promotion Programme Council Meeting 9 Area Meetings and 8 Regional Meetings held

15 Leinster Ulster 97 new athletes registered 224 new athletes registered 2 new clubs affiliated 2 new clubs affiliated 26 Club Support and Engagement 38 Club Support and Engagement visits completed visits completed 12 clubs participating in the Health 15 clubs participating in the Health Promotion Programme Promotion Programme 2 Area Meetings and 7 Regional 10 Area meetings and 8 Regional Meetings held Meetings held Munster 153 new athletes registered 3 new clubs affiliated 21 Club Support and Engagement visits completed 15 athletes completed the Athlete Code of Ethics course 22 clubs participating in the Health Promotion Programme 3 Cluster meetings and 4 Regional Athletes from Eagles Special Council Meetings held Olympics Club in Ulster

Athlete Leadership In an eﬀort to expand the opportunities for athletes, and with the support of funding from State Street, an Athlete Leadership brochure was developed that outlines the range of activities oﬀered such as ambassadorial and volunteering roles, committee work and an awards scheme. All athletes who take up a leadership role are recorded on the Raisers Edge database so as to record the level of engagement by athletes and also to be able to recruit or assign athletes according to their expertise when requested to represent the Special Olympics Ireland or Regional Programme.

Athlete AthleteAthlete ATHLETE LEADERSHIP Key elements of involvement Leadership Through participation in Special Olympics sports, athletes gain There are many ways in which an athlete may be a part of Athlete LeadershipLeadership confidence, self-esteem and personal skills. With this new Leadership. A number of key opportunities are offered in the confidence, some athletes wish to pursue other opportunities following areas:

within the Special Olympics programme either in addition to their - Ambassadorial Roles - Volunteering Roles sport or as a follow on from past participation. - Committee Work - Awards Scheme Athlete Leadership encourages athletes to develop skills which will empower them to be advocates for all athletes and act as a Leader for Special Olympics.

Becoming involved in Athlete Leadership provides athletes with many new and different opportunities. Training is provided to athletes who wish to become Athlete Leaders. The training helps athletes to build on their confidence and self-esteem and encourages them to contribute to the organisation in a wider Athletes as Ambassadors Athletes as Volunteers context. It also gives athletes a voice in spreading the word about Special Olympics athletes are superb Through volunteering, athletes are ambassadors for the programme. provided with additional the positive change Special Olympics can bring to individuals and Through Athlete Leadership, opportunities to develop their skills families. training is provided in a range of and give their time to the areas including public speaking, organisation. With planning and presentation skills, photography and support from their mentor, athletes media work. This training gives can volunteer at their Special athletes the confidence to share and Olympics club or in their local express their views and ideas and to community. There may also be represent themselves and their opportunities to volunteer at Who can be part of Athlete Leadership? fellow athletes. various levels within the organisation. . Any athlete, with the assistance of a mentor, can participate in Opportunities are provided for athletes to engage at various levels Athlete Leadership. Athletes must be over 16 years of age, while of the organisation, including club mentors must be over 18 years of age. Both the athlete and the and regional level. This may lead to mentor must be registered members of Special Olympics. involvement in Special Olympics media campaigns and interviews, Mentors may support one, two or more athletes at the same time, helping to spread the message of depending on the level of support the athlete may require. Special Olympics to the general public. 16 Athlete Leadership Highlights from around the Regions: Connaught 4 Athlete Leadership training sessions Annual Awards presentation took took place place in Osprey Hotel, Naas in April 6 athletes offered volunteer 2014, with 4 Gold and 6 Bronze awards opportunities at Bocce and Bowling in presented, along with certificates for Galway mentors and trainers Annual Awards presentation took Athlete leader opportunities at place in December, with 2 Silver and 4 Regional Level include 5 Athletes Bronze awards presented to Athlete invovled in Committees Leaders, along with certificates for mentors and trainers Ulster 7 Athlete Leadership training Eastern Region workshops took place Athlete Leadership Awards 9 Athlete Leaders volunteered at the presentation took place in the Louis league awards night in Cookstown on Fitzgerald Hotel 9th December, with 8 21st June 2013 in areas such as Gold, 2 Silver and 13 Bronze awards photography, assistant MC, delivering presented to Athlete Leaders, along speeches and prize-giving with certificates for mentors 11 Athlete Leaders were selected to and trainers volunteer as Games Ambassadors at A combined Leinster and Eastern the World Police and Fire Games in Region Athlete Forum was held on the Belfast on 2nd & 3rd August 2013 9th November 2013, with 95 5 Athlete Leaders volunteered at the athletes and 68 mentors in Families Event in Belfast on 20th attendance. Workshops held in Public October 2013 carrying out duties such Speaking, Interview Skills, Healthy as photography, room decorating, Athlete, Drama and Social Media delivering speeches, sign in, Guidelines information desk and DJ 135 Athlete Leaders were offered the Annual Awards presentation took opportunity to volunteer at Regional place on 1st December 2013, with 5 events. Bronze awards presented, along with 75 Athlete Leaders had a range of certificates for mentors and trainers opportunities to advocate on behalf of Special Olympics, from public Munster speaking to live radio and TV 1 Athlete Leadership training interviews on radio and TV, MC at the workshop held with 16 athletes and 12 Annual Report Meeting and Athlete mentors attending Leadership awards and various photo shoots. 15 athletes offered volunteer opportunities at Athletics event in Leinster Cork 8 Athlete Leadership training sessions took place 54 athletes offered volunteer opportunities at 13 Regional Sports Events, with 24 Athletes filling Ambassadorial Roles and 30 Athletes filled Volunteering Roles 17 Family Programme

A key strategic aim of our current strategy is to have one registerd family member registered for at least 75% of our athletes, a target that was successfully achieved by end of 2013, with a total of 8,524 family members registered with the programme.

As part of the planning for 2014 Ireland Games in Limerick and for the 2014 European Games in Belgium, Information Sessions were held for family members/carers of the athletes who were selected to compete.

Family Programme Highlights from around the Regions: Connaught Munster 519 new family members registered 369 new family members registered Family Hospitality area provided at A Families Event was held on 23rd June Bocce and Table Tennis competition in Thomond Park, Limerick, with 150 events family members attending A Families Event was held on 17th Family development team in place and October in Gleeson’s Town House, 4 planning meetings held Roscommon Ulster Eastern Region 394 new family members registered 343 new family members registered Family Hospitality area provided at Family Hospitality area provided at 19 Basketball, Bocce, Aquatics and regional event days Athletics regional competition events A Families Event was held on the 16th from March – June 2013 May in the Lighthouse cinema, A Families Event was held on 20th Smithﬁeld with over 120 family October 2013 in La Mon Hotel,Belfast members attending Family Representative co-opted onto 7 Family development team meetings Regional Committee held A Family Information Evening was held for the family members of athletes competing in the Ireland Games 2014 Leinster 337 new family members registered Family Hospitality area provided at 13 Regional Advancement Events Individual Invitation issued to the Families of all the athletes competing in Regional Advancement Events, resulting in an increase in attendance of Family Members during the events 4 Family Information Sessions took place to help prepare for 2014 Ireland Team Ireland athlete Katherine Daly is greeted Games by her sister Anna and her father Ian on her return home from the Special Olympics World Winter Family Representative co-opted onto Games, South Korea, 2013 Regional Committee 18 Volunteer Services

New (2013) Total Numbers (December 2013)

Volunteers 1,486 25,566

The number of volunteers supporting Special Olympics Ireland continued to rise in 2013, with 1,486 new volunteers completing the registration process. Their assistance was much appreciated, not only in clubs but in the regional competitions and other events held throughout the year. All new volunteers registered in 2013 received photographic membership cards.

2013 saw the establishment of a long-service Recognition Pin for our volunteers. Volunteers who fulﬁlled the criteria of ﬁve years’ service or more to a club or who actively participated during this period as event volunteers were issued with respective club or event volunteer recognition pins. The pins were commissioned by Special Olympics Ireland to recognise our volunteers for their incredible contribution towards improving the lives of our athletes. 2,376 club volunteers and 1,224 events volunteers received their Recognition Pin in 2013.

Special Olympics Ulster has registered as a delivery partner for the Volunteer Now GoldMark Scheme, an initiative designed to promote and recognise sport volunteering among 16 - 24 year olds. 3 clubs have joined the scheme as part of the initial phase.

Volunteers were kept up-to-date and informed on developments in Special Olympics with three editions of the ‘CONNECT’ newsletter issued in 2013.

Training

JUNE 2013

MARCH 2013 Online training continues to feature CONNCT ECT strongly alongside traditional delivery CONNCTE OCTOBER 2013 methods for training, with 85% of CONNE volunteers choosing to complete Volunteer Induction on the Special Olympics Ireland website. Of the remaining 15% of volunteers, the majority are completing the hardcopy-version training. These two initiatives have saved on both time and travel for volunteers and trainers alike, while ensuring the Special Olympics AND er Games key educational messages as outlined TEAMympics IRE WorldL Wint 2013 Special Ol eport on page 17 in the current strategy are See full r communicated.

19 A migration to a more dynamic and user-friendly version of the online training material will happen in 2014. This will be accompanied by the launch of new online training aids including a Transition Year module, a revised volunteer induction course and an enhanced refresher course for existing volunteers. We have also expanded access to our online video library of event based training visual aids to enhance the volunteer’s training experience.

As part of our on-going relationship, we have received support and advice from Dublin City University on the migration to the new training platform and other best practice initiatives with online training.

Research

In 2013 Special Olympics Ireland commissioned Dublin City University to undertake a longitudinal research study into the relative benefits of being involved in Special Olympics programmes. Special Olympics are seeking to determine if this research can establish that, for those individuals with intellectual disabilities who make a choice (or are facilitated in doing so) to participate in its programmes over a sustained period of time, there is a positive and measurable impact on their health and well-being. If such is the case, is it possible to quantify the economic and health benefits for the individual participant, the individual’s family, and the State. The Research Team led by Dr Mary Rose Sweeney from DCU in collaboration with Queen’s University, Belfast have begun to interview athletes and their families across the regions before assessing their finding and publishing their report. A number of service providers for people with an intellectual disability are also assisting with the study. Special Olympics Ireland receives the continued support of the Iris O’Brien Foundation for this study.

In addition to the research work being undertaken by DCU on behalf of Special Olympics Ireland, a previous three-year Memorandum of Understanding between DCU and Special Olympics Ireland was renewed in 2013. The Memorandum acknowledges a shared vision and belief that collaboration, on research, volunteer activities and access to state of the art facilities, will provide equality of opportunity and help to create a greater mutual understanding and respect for people with disability.

20 Special Olympics Ireland Athlete, Grainne Loftus Health Services Carol Nairn

Health Services

Special Olympics continues to focus and deliver on key areas that impact the health and well-being of our athlete through training and support. In 2013, training was delivered in three diﬀerent strands of the Health Services area as outlined below. This training is primarily supported by volunteer tutors, the majority of whom are now independently delivering the education to volunteers and athletes.

i. 14 training sessions were delivered on the Intellectual Disability Education modules. These modules were developed in conjunction with the Faculty of Nursing, Trinity College and a total of 115 volunteers received at least one module.

ii. 73 athletes, from 33 clubs, undertook training in the area of Athlete Protection. Training is oﬀered regularly for volunteers and coaches in the area of Athlete Protection and on the organisation’s Code of Ethics and Good Practice, however, materials are now available, and speciﬁcally designed, for use in the training of athletes.

iii. Further to the development of a training module to support volunteers who are assigned to role of Athlete Protection and Medical Oﬃcer on club managment teams, 7 training sessions were delivered around the programme, with 64 volunteers trained.

In line with best practice in terms of keeping information relevant and up-to-date, two sets of guidelines were published in 2013 as addenda to the existing Code of Ethics and Good Practice Guide. The ﬁrst addendum developed was a set of Social Media and Texting Guidelines. A number of workshops have been held, however work needs to continue in this area.

The second addendum was the Physical Contact Guidelines in Special Olympics Ireland Sport. As the National Governing Body (NGB) for sport for people with intellectual disability and because the sports of bocce, ﬂoorball and the Motor Activities Training Programme are primarily sports within the Special Olympics Sports programme, the organisation was required, similar to all NGBs, to develop its guidelines in relation to these sports. 21 Brian Keogh, Angella Walsh, Caitriona Foley, James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick and Lynn Conroy in Croke Park at the launch of the Health Promotions Programme

Health Promotion

53 new clubs adopted the Health Promotion Programme into their club activities in 2013, resulting in 1,686 athletes accessing the programme.

In response to a need identiﬁed by volunteers and family members, two new health resources were developed for athletes and clubs, (i) an accessible Nutrition for Competition leaﬂet and (ii) a training module on Personal Hygiene.

Nutrition for Competition

Personal Hygiene Workshop

22 New Health Promotion Clubs by Region

Leinster Eastern Munster Ulster Connaught

12%

32% 11%

17% 28%

Healthy Athlete Programme

The Healthy Athlete Programme has continued to grow as more clinical volunteers are recruited and relationships are developed and fostered with professional bodies and third level institutions. During 2013, 3 Healthy Athlete events were held across 3 regions as folllows:

i. Ulster – 144 athletes screened across 3 disciplines (Special Smiles, Fit Feet and Health Promotion) ii. Leinster Basketball and Football – 133 athletes screened across 4 disciplines (Special Smiles, Fit Feet, Opening Eyes and Health Promotion) iii. Eastern and Leinster Athlete Forum - 93 athletes screened across 2 Disciplines (Special Smiles and Health Promotion)

Value in Kind support was secured for the events from Colgate, GlaxoSmithKline, Total Produce and Pamex.

Marketing, Communications and Fundraising

In June 2013, celebrations were held to mark the 10th year anniversary of the Special Olympics Ireland World Games hosted in Ireland from June 21st – 29th 2003. To mark this event a host of well-known sports and media personalities including Galway Hurling Manager, Anthony Cunningham, former Cork Football Manager Conor Counihan, former Dublin GAA player Jason Sherlock, Cork GAA footballers, Eoin Cadogan and Brid Stack, along with Munster rugby player Billy Holland challenged Special Olympic Athletes in a range of outdoor sports in Cork, Dublin and Galway.

23 Public Relations and Media

Team Ireland returned home to a heroes’ welcome on Wednesday 6th February, following an incredible performance at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea. Team Ireland, which consisted of 14 athletes and a management team of eight, returned to Dublin Airport with an impressive 12 medals – three gold, six silver and three bronze from their endeavours on the slopes and the ﬂoorball rink.

The athletes received a rapturous welcome from family members, friends and supporters – some of whom travelled home early from the Games in South Korea so that they could be there to welcome them home.

On 3rd December 2013 Special Olympics Ireland launched the 2014 Ireland Games in the University Concert Hall. The co-hosts, Will Leahy from 2FM and former Munster Rugby Player David Wallace, welcomed representatives from each region to the University Limerick Concert Hall to join a number of guest speakers including, Christine Delaney (Face of the 2014 Ireland Games), Antoinette McKeown of Sport Northern Ireland, Irish Sports Council Chief Executive Oﬃcer, John Tracey and Matt English. The event received widespread PR coverage from regional and national press, radio and TV. This event is only possible with the continued support of our premier sponsors eircom, represented at the event by Carolan Lennon, eircom Director of Wholesale.

Team Ireland return! 24 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games Public Relations and Media

From the period of 1st Jan to 31st Dec 2013 we had 121,656 visitors to www.specialolympics.ie

Breakdown of new versus returning visitors:

New Returning

Top 5 Pages visited: Homepage – 55,930 Pageviews Volunteering Opportunities – 14,024 Pageviews Eastern Region Microsite – 8,707 Pageviews Munster Region Microsite – 7,777 Pageviews Ulster Region Microsite – 7,486 Pageviews

25 Facebook: Number of Friends for period 1st Dec 2012 – 31st Dec 2012 – 24,802 Number of Friends for period 1st Dec 2013 – 31st Dec 2013 – 27,168 Increase of 2,366 Likes during 2013 76% of our followers are Female 23% are Male

Twitter: Analytic tool only set up in November 2013. Current Twitter Followers – 7,075 Sponsorship Our 28-year partnership with our sponsor, eircom, continues to be a signiﬁcant partnership that has generated tremendous beneﬁts for both organisations. Special Olympics Munster has continued a strong relationship with their sponsor, Johnson and Johnson and, the Eastern Region was successful in securing substantial funding from State Street to enable development of the Athlete Leadership Programme over a two year period and RSA continue to give their support to the region. Connaught received the support of Connacht Gold when selected as their Charity of the Year for 2013. Special Olympics Ireland were also selected as the Charity of Choice for Bluebird Care which was supported by events and fundraising activity in all regions. Datapac continued their on-going support through the provision of vital services of storage and distribution throughout 2013.

Kia Motors Ireland’s generous sponsorship of five vehicles in 2008 for a five year sponsorship agreement finalised in October 2013. However, five years on, as you would expect from the Kia brand, these vehicles are serving us so well and continue to be driven throughout the 32 counties of Ireland.

Relationships have been developed with foundations that generously donate to the organisation, such as, the Iris O’Brien Foundation who are supporting our Research Project, and the JP McManus Pro Am Foundation who are donating €250,000 per annum, to the Munster region, for 6 years up to 2017.

26 Fundraising

The 2013 Collection Day took place on 26th April in 200 towns and cities across the 32 counties. This year’s campaign, which raised €484,997, was actively supported by over 3,000 volunteers. The funds collected on the street were supported by the eircom Business Breakfast and text-donate facility.

Regional and community fundraising events in 2013 included 7 Polar Plunges, 5 Cops & Donuts, Galway Bridal Race, Superhero week, Challenge 126, Paris to Nice, Ironman and a multitude of swimming, cycling and running events raised over €200,000 from our loyal volunteers and supporters throughout Ireland.

Special Olympics secured 2nd place in the 2013 Electric Ireland “Powering Kindness” competition. The campaign, which ran from November 2nd to 8th, was kindly supported by a host of Irish celebrities and sporting heroes including Dominic Ryan, Sean O’Brien, Billy Holland, Gavin James and Chris Donoghue and resulted in a donation of €40,000.

Collection Day 2013 Volunteers, Lisa Fee, Susan O’Connell and Eloise Cowie, at the M1 toll plaza, Drogheda, Co. Meath 27 Commitment to Standards in Fundraising Practice

Special Olympics Ireland is fully committed to achieving the standards contained within the Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising.

The Statement exists to: Improve fundraising practice Promote high levels of accountability and transparency by organisations fundraising from the public Provide clarity and assurances to donors and prospective donors about the organisations they support We, Special Olympics Ireland, have considered the Statement and believe we meet the standards it sets out. We welcome your feedback on our performance via any of the contact points provided.

Contact:

Glenda Wright Matt English Marketing Communications & Chief Executive Oﬃcer Fundraising Director Special Olympics Ireland Special Olympics Ireland 4th Floor, Park House, 4th Floor, Park House, North Circular Road, North Circular Road, Dublin 7 Dublin 7

Tel: 01 8823972 Tel: 01 8823972 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Our oﬃces are open 5 days a week from 9a.m to 5p.m

28 Support Functions Administration

Having initiated work on securing a new, ﬁt-for-purpose oﬃce facility, Special Olympics Ulster moved into their premises in March 2013.

As a result of reducing funding streams, a decision was taken to review the proposed relocation of the Leinster region. As part of the review, and as a result of additional space adjacent to the existing offices in Park House becoming available to rent, favourable terms were negotiated for the rental of central office space to include a proposal to move the Leinster Regional Office into Park House space and to renegotiate for the extension of the existing lease on one side of Park House securing the entire space up to July 2016. The process to look at moving the regional office into Park House, alongside central office, commenced in October 2013. To accommodate the colocation of the two offices, a restructuring of the central office space was undertaken and completed in December 2013. The move by the Leinster office team into their new office was arranged for January 2014.

With the Special Olympics Ireland Games being held in Limerick in June 2014, office premises near the University of Limerick were secured in September 2013. Stage one of the office set-up was completed by December 2013 which was made possible by the loan of office furniture provided by Dell, with stage two to be completed by the end of March 2014 in order to accommodate the many volunteers who will join the team to support the delivery of the 2014 Ireland Games in Limerick.

Human Resources

The organisation experienced signiﬁcant change throughout the year, with up to eight vacancies arising throughout the year, of which only 5 were replaced. The organisation continued to receive resource support from the Department of Social Protection through the Community Employment Scheme. 2013 saw the engagement of 15 participants across central and regional oﬃces. In addition, over 20 students and graduates undertook work placements ranging from three weeks to nine months.

Mark Duﬀy, Cheeverstown Special Olympics Football Club

29 Thanks to the extensive opportunities offered by the Irish Sports Council (ISC), through their Learning and Development Services, almost all Special Olympics Ireland staff members have been able to avail of job-related specific training as a result of the ISC’s Organisational Capability Building Programme which is made available to all National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs). Apart from individual staff training opportunities on one and two-day courses, regional staff teams participated in tailor-made team building sessions held locally. This level of training would not be possible at all without the support of the ISC and their support is highly valued and appreciated.

All staﬀ engaged yet again in the ‘Irish Sports Council Challenge’ in May which encouraged staﬀ members of NGBs to engage in physical activity for the month.

The Human Resources and Remuneration Subcommittee of the Board met ﬁve times during 2013 to monitor and support policy reviews and the Human Resources function.

Information Technology

A broad range of projects were embarked upon during 2013 in the Information Technology area, starting at the beginning of the year with equipping of the new oﬃce for the Ulster region. A similar project took place later in the year (October) for the 2014 All Ireland Games in Limerick.

Our converged communications plan, driven by our sponsor eircom, took another step forward with telephone equipment upgrades in the Ulster and Muster oﬃces.

A managed print service, kindly supported by our friends in Datapac, helped standardise and upgrade the ﬂeet of printers across all sites and, by availing of Microsoft’s Charity Donations programme, the organisation now uses their suite of professional oﬃce and web-collaboration tools for a whole host of projects.

On the application front, our Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system was rolled out to the fundraising team. An event registration web service which plugged into the CRM system was also developed and this service has initially been directed towards recruiting volunteers for the 2014 Limerick Games. This new service has signiﬁcantly reduced the amount of manual work that was carried out in previous years.

30 Aidan Cross, from Cahir, Co. Tipperary, listens to Floorball Coach Louise O’ Toole, from Waterford City 31 Special Olympics Ireland Limited (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

Reports and Financial Statements

For the year ended 31 December 2013

Special Olympics Ireland Athlete, Laura Rumball

32 Contents

Directors and other Information 34 Directors’ Report 35 Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities 41 Independent Auditor’s Report 42 Statement of Accounting Policies 44 Income and Expenditure Account 46 Balance Sheet 47 Cash Flow Statement 48 Notes to Financial Statements 49

SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

DIRECTORS AND OTHER INFORMATION

DIRECTORS: Mary Davis (Chairperson) Ronan King Máire Allen Ann Bourke Liam Collins Fiona Donaghy Nerissa Dowling Peter Fitzgerald John McKernan Laura Murphy Dervila O’Mahony Maurice Redmond Nicole Redmond John Spillane David Wallace

SECRETARY: Liam Collins

COMPANY NUMBER: 228545

CHARITY NUMBER: CHY 7556

REGISTERED OFFICE: 4th Floor Park House North Circular Road Dublin 7

BANKERS: Bank of Ireland Lower Baggot Street Dublin 2

AUDITORS: Deloitte & Touche Chartered Accountants and Statutory Audit Firm Deloitte & Touche House Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2

SOLICITORS: Beauchamps Riverside Two Sir John Rogerson Quay Dublin 2

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DIRECTORS’ REPORT

The Directors present their Annual Report together with the audited financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2013.

Principal Activity

The company was incorporated on the 4th July 1978 and its principal activity is the development and promotion of the Special Olympics movement in Ireland.

Results

As anticipated, due to the continued reduction in public grant funding in the republic of Ireland and challenging conditions for voluntary fundraising, operating results for the year before accounting for the movement on restricted reserves reflect a deficit of €1,075,469 (2012 – deficit of €881,392). As a result, the charity recorded a net reduction in cash of €1,388,878 (2012 – reduction of €1,109,298). The difference between the net cash reduction and the deficit noted above is primarily as a result of a movement in working capital of €335,296.

Current Business and Future Developments

Special Olympics Ireland (SOI) continued to provide a year-round sports training and competition programme, for athletes with an intellectual disability, in Special Olympics clubs around the island. The Special Olympics Programme offers 15 different sports and a comprehensive Motor Activities programme for those not yet ready for competition. The programme includes a range of sporting, health, educational, social and community-based activities which generate enormous benefits for people with an intellectual disability. We are now one of Ireland’s largest sporting and voluntary organisations, with 378 clubs involved in training 9,193 registered athletes across the island at the end of December 2013 (398 clubs with 10,834 athletes in 2012). The reduction in athlete numbers covers a range of reasons, from increasing age, changing health conditions, loss of interest in sport and mortality rates. Such natural changes have been exacerbated by the current challenging economic environment where some services have seen a reduction in resources and are no longer in a position to support Special Olympics.

Although the net number of clubs and athletes reduced during 2013, new participant numbers continued to grow steadily with 682 new athletes joining the programme and 9 new Special Olympics clubs established, (985 athletes and 17 clubs in 2012). While a number of clubs disaffiliated during the year, every effort was made to ensure that all athletes from those clubs were offered the opportunity to join another club.

The Special Olympics Programme is supported by a strong volunteer pool of 25,566 vetted volunteers (24,334 in 2012), with 8,462 volunteers actively involved during 2013, (7,233 in 2012). Increasing registered family members continued to be a focus during 2013. An additional 1,962 family members registered in 2013 bringing the total to 8,524 at the end of the year.

In terms of our Sports programme, a key highlight took place in January 2013 when the Team Ireland delegation of 14 athletes, and 8 coaching and management volunteers, travelled to Pyeongchang, South Korea to take part in the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in skiing and floorball. The team did Ireland immensely proud and took home 3 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals in skiing, with the floorball team winning bronze. Many other athletes also achieved placement ribbons and personal bests.

2013 was the second level of advancement competition in our 4-year cycle where 4,100 athletes participated in 67 regional advancement competition events hoping to advance to the Special Olympics Ireland Games to be held in Limerick in June 2014. Following completion of Regional Advancement Compteitions, selection of athletes took place during June and July 2013, resulting in 1,500 athletes advancing as competitors, across 5 regional delegations, to compete at the highest level of competition within the Special Olympics Ireland Pogramme.

In addition to the significant number of competition events that are noted above, where there is a high- level of activity associated with the athlete and volunteer preparation and participation for these competitions, a further 27 non-advancement competitions were held plus year-round leagues were run in aquatics, basketball, bocce football and tenpin bowling. Numerous other athlete and coach development training and education days and workshops were held around the country, details of which are set out in the body of the annual report. 3 35 SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

DIRECTORS’ REPORT (CONTINUED)

Current Business and Future Developments

2013 also saw a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games where numerous events were organized throughout the island. The last quarter of 2013 was particularly busy with the commencement of planning for the 2014 Ireland Games to be held in Limerick for the second time from June 12th to 15th 2014.

Our partnerships with all our various funders are greatly valued and continue to be strategically critical in maintaining current levels of funding, in the current economic circumstances, to ensure the sustainability of our organisation. We continue to work with both the Irish and Northern Ireland governments in relation to securing and maintaining core grant funding towards sustaining the All Ireland programme across the island.

Our 28-year partnership with our sponsor, eircom, continues to be a significant partnership and has been significantly reenergized by a new eircom management team, resulting in tremendous benefits for both organisations. Special Olympics continues to benefit from numerous corporate engagements and many new corporate relationships have been established during the year.

Fundraising activities with the general public continue to be a major factor in both generating required funds and maintaining a high level of awareness of the Special Olympics programme. This generosity, coupled with the efforts of our corporate partners and volunteers, maintained an inflow of much needed funds into the organisation during 2013. Our annual Collection Day is a key fundraising event each year and the 2013 event succeeded in raising €484,997 with the support of just under 3,500 volunteers. The yield in 2013 was 17.6% less than that collected in 2012 of €588,727.

Against the background of ever-decreasing funding, the organisation continued, throughout 2013, to offer its many support programmes such as the Clubs programme, the Athlete leadership programme, the families programme, the volunteers programme and the health promotions programme. In view of the continued depletion of reserves during 2013 and considering the ongoing challenging economic environment, the Board decided to appoint an external consultant to undertake a strategic and organisational review of Special Olympics Ireland during 2014.

The significant research initiated by Special Olympics Ireland in 2012, and kindly funded by the Iris O’Brien Foundation, is on-going and expected to complete in 2015. This research will provide robust evidence to underpin our work and attract funds to help maintain and develop the programme into the future.

Post Balance Sheet Events

There have been no significant events affecting the company since the year end.

Directors of the Company and their Interests

The Directors of the Company are set out on page 2 of the Accounts. The Directors have no financial interest in the company which is limited by guarantee without a share capital.

Books of Account

The company's directors are aware of their responsibilities, under section 202 of the Companies Act 1990, to maintain proper books of account and are discharging their responsibility by employing qualified and experienced staff, ensuring that sufficient company resources are available for the task, liaising with the company's auditors and, where necessary, seeking external professional accounting advice.

The books of account are held at the company's business premises, 4th Floor, Park House, North Circular Road, Dublin 7.

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DIRECTORS’ REPORT (CONTINUED)

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005

The wellbeing of the company's employees is safe guarded through strict adherence to health and safety standards. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 imposes certain requirements on employers and the company has taken the necessary action to ensure compliance with the Act, including the adoption of a safety statement.

Structure, Governance and Management:

Structure

Special Olympics Ireland is a company limited by guarantee (incorporated on the 4th July 1978) and the company is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association, which sets out its purpose in the following terms:

To organise and conduct Special Olympics training and competition programmes in Ireland and Northern Ireland in accordance with and furtherance of the mission, goal and founding principles of the international Special Olympics movement, including in particular,

(a) The mission of providing year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic- type sports for persons with an intellectual disability, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community, and

(b) The ultimate goal of assisting persons with an intellectual disability to participate as productive and respected members of society at large, by offering them a fair opportunity to develop and demonstrate their skills and talents through sports training and competition, by providing social and leisure opportunities for them, and by helping to increase the public’s awareness of their capabilities and needs.

The company’s purpose as stated above was in place during the period of these accounts.

Governance

The Board of Special Olympics Ireland (SOI) is committed to maintaining the highest standard of corporate governance and they believe that this is a key element in ensuring the proper operation of the company’s activities. To this end the Board of Directors are fully committed to the implementation of the Code of Governance for the Community, Voluntary and Charitable sector, which was launched at the end of February 2012.

Commitment to the Governance Code for the Community, Voluntary and Charitable Sector Special Olympics Ireland is compliant with the standards as outlined in the principles within the Code and fully committed to an annual monitoring and of our organisational practices against the recommended actions for each principle.

Commitment to Standards in Fundraising Practice Special Olympics Ireland is fully committed to achieving the standards contained within the Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising. The Directors have considered the Statement and believe the standards it sets out are being met.

The members of the Board are the directors of Special Olympics Ireland and the Board has the function of overseeing, directing and coordinating the policies, organisation, affairs and activities of Special Olympics Ireland. Members of the Board are all volunteers and receive no remuneration or benefits for the work they undertake as Board members. Staff members are employed by the Board to carry out the work required to deliver the year-round sports training and competition programme. Staff members are paid an annual salary with no related bonus payments.

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DIRECTORS’ REPORT (CONTINUED)

Governance

During 2013, a total of €5,553,761 was invested in the programme, with a total of 76% being invested directly in the promotion and participation in sport development, competition events and games and volunteers across the 32 counties. A further 9% was invested in ensuring compliance with all the various legislation and regulation governing the charity sector. 15% of total costs were invested in fundraising which went towards generating 40% of total income in 2013.

Sports programmes €1,936,121 35% Games & Events €530,721 9% Volunteer Training & Support €1,432,425 26% Governance €497,216 9% Advocacy €320,890 6% Fundraising €836,388 15%

It must be noted that the sports programme delivered by Special Olympics Ireland needs paid staff at a level that will effectively recruit, train and support the high volunteer workforce which is required (i) to meet the stipulated coach to athlete supervision ratio of 1 coach to every 4 athletes and (ii) to meet the higher level of planning and support in the organisation of training and competition events within the four- year competition cycle. Payroll and related costs of €3,703,607 amounted to 67% of total costs in 2013. These costs include 10.75% of Government taxes.

The Board is responsible for providing leadership, setting strategy and ensuring control. Board members are drawn from diverse backgrounds, bringing their significant expertise and decision-making skills achieved in their respective fields to Board deliberations. Clear division of responsibility within the organisation is maintained, with the Board retaining control of major decisions under a formal schedule of matters reserved to the Board. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has responsibility for devising strategy and policy within the authorities delegated by the Board.

SOI has a comprehensive process to ensure that performance is monitored and that appropriate management information is prepared and reviewed regularly by both executive management and the Board. Board members receive induction training and an information pack designed to familiarise them with the company’s operations, management and governance.

During 2013 the Board comprised of fifteen non-executive-directors. Board members are appointed for an initial two-year term, which may be renewed for two further terms of two years each, giving a maximum of six continuous years for any one non-executive-director, with the exception of two Board members who are elected annually from the floor at the AGM in line with our constitution. The Board met six times in 2013. The Board has formed the following subcommittees, chaired by a member of the board and with agreed terms of reference:-

 Audit Subcommittee and Governance Subcommittee

Chairperson: Maurice Redmond

The role of the Audit Subcommittee is to ensure that the organisation applies consistent financial reporting and internal control procedures and maintains an appropriate relationship with the company's auditors.

In terms of Governance, the subcommittee’s role is to ensure the Code of Practice for Good Governance of Community, Voluntary and Charitable organisations in Ireland is implemented as it applies to the company.

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

DIRECTORS’ REPORT (CONTINUED)

Governance (Continued)

 Distinguished Service Award Subcommittee

Acting Chairperson: Peter Fitzgerald

The role of the Distinguished Service Award Subcommittee is to review nominations for the Award and to make recommendations to the Board on the recipients.

 Finance Subcommittee

Chairperson: Ronan King

The role of the Finance Subcommittee is to share the workload of the Treasurer in monitoring and managing the organisation’s finances. It provides an opportunity for detailed discussions and consideration of financial matters, with regular reporting to the Board.

 Human Resources & Remuneration Subcommittee

Chairperson: Laura Murphy

The role of the subcommittee is to support the human resources (HR) management function of the organisation, ensuring compliance with all legislative requirements and to monitor and review the Remuneration Policy and to make recommendations to the Board on any HR matters.

 Investment Subcommittee

Chairperson: Ronan King

The Investment Subcommittee is responsible for reviewing and making recommendations to the Board regarding the organisation’s investment strategy.

Internal Controls

The Board acknowledges its overall responsibility for the organisation’s systems of internal control and for reviewing its effectiveness. They have delegated responsibility for the monitoring of these systems to the audit subcommittee and responsibility for the implementation of these systems to the CEO and the executive management.

The internal control systems are designed to provide reasonable but not absolute assurance against material mis-statement or loss, to enable the Board to meet its responsibilities for the integrity and accuracy of the company’s financial and non-financial records. They include:

(a) A four-year strategic plan including financial projections approved by the Board.

(b) An annual budget approved by the Board.

(c) Regular consideration by the Board of both financial results including variances from budgets, and non- financial reports on key performance indicators.

(d) Delegation of day-to-day management, levels of authority and segregation of duties.

(e) Identification and management of risks.

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

DIRECTORS’ REPORT (CONTINUED)

Risk Management

The company’s risk-management processes are designed to enable the organisation to conclude whether the major risks to which SOI is exposed to have been identified and reviewed and systems and procedures been established to mitigate these risks. Major risks are those which have a high likelihood of occurring and would, if they occurred, have a severe impact on either operational performance or achievement of purposes and objectives, or cause damage to the organisation's reputation.

As trustees, the Board concentrates its efforts on ensuring that the most serious risks are being managed effectively. The Board does this by conducting a regular review of the organisation’s risk register. The risk register identifies material risks and assesses their probability, in order to mitigate any impact that Special Olympics Ireland is exposed to currently and in the short to medium term. To assist in the identification of risks, SOI adopts four risk categories:

(a) Governance and management risks

(b) Financial risks

(d) Operational risks

The above risk management systems can only seek to manage, rather than eliminate, the risk of failure to achieve business objectives and can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance against material misstatement or loss.

Management

The Board is responsible for the strategic direction of the Special Olympics Programme, ensuring the objectives of Special Olympics Ireland, and of the wider international movement, are met by delegating day to day management to the CEO.

The Special Olympics programme is offered as an All-Ireland programme which is managed centrally across 5 departments, under the direction of the CEO.

The programme is sub-divided into five regional programmes, namely Connaught, Eastern, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. At regional level, the programme is managed on a day-to-day basis by a team of regional staff, under the direction of the Regional Director, supported by the Regional Committee which is made up of regional volunteers who, in turn, work alongside many other teams of volunteers.

Auditors

The auditors, Deloitte, have indicated their willingness to continue in office in accordance with the provisions of Section 160 (2) of the Companies Act, 1963.

On behalf of the Board

______Director Director

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES

The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable Irish law and Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in Ireland including the accounting standards issued by the Financial Reporting Council and published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Irish company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the surplus or deficit of the company for that period.

In preparing those financial statements, the directors are required to:

 select suitable accounting policies for the company financial statements and then apply them consistently

 make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

 prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors confirm that they have complied with the above requirements in preparing the financial statements.

The directors are responsible for keeping proper books of account which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure the financial statements are prepared in accordance with the accounting standards generally accepted in Ireland and with Irish statute comprising the Companies Acts 1963 to 2013.

They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Where financial statements are to be published on the web, the directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the company’s website.

In so far as the directors are aware:

 there is no relevant audit information (information needed by the company’s auditors in connection with preparing their report) of which the company’s auditors are unaware, and

 the directors have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditors are aware of that information.

The directors are also responsible under company law for securing the company’s compliance with its relevant obligations, as defined in the Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003, and for preparing an annual directors’ report setting out specified matters. Those matters specify whether, based on the company’s procedures and their review of those procedures, they are of the opinion that they have used all reasonable endeavors to secure the company’s compliance with its relevant obligations during the year to which the report relates.

On behalf of the Board

______Director Director

Date:

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED

We have audited the Financial Statements of Special Olympics Ireland Limited for the year ended 31 December 2013 which comprise the Income and Expenditure Account, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and the related notes 1 to 20. These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and the Statement of Accounting Policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is Irish law and accounting standards issued by the Financial Reporting Council and promulgated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in Ireland).

This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Section 193 of the Companies Act, 1990. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Respective responsibilities of directors and auditors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements giving a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the financial statements in accordance with Irish law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s Ethical Standards for Auditors.

Scope of the audit of the financial statements

An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the company’s circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately disclosed; the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the directors; and the overall presentation of the financial statements. In addition, we read all the financial and non-financial information in the Reports and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2013 to identify material inconsistencies with the audited financial statements and to identify any information that is apparently materially incorrect based on, or materially inconsistent with, the knowledge acquired by us in the course of performing the audit. If we become aware of any apparent material misstatements or inconsistencies we consider the implications for our report.

Opinion on financial statements

In our opinion the financial statements:  give a true and fair view, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in Ireland, of the state of the affairs of the company as at 31 December 2013 and of the deficit for the year then ended; and  have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Acts, 1963 to 2013.

Matters on which we are required to report by the Companies Acts, 1963 to 2013

 We have obtained all the information and explanations which we consider necessary for the purposes of our audit.  In our opinion proper books of account have been kept by the company.  The financial statements are in agreement with the books of account.  In our opinion the information given in the directors’ report is consistent with the financial statements.

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the provisions in the Companies Acts, 1963 to 2013 which require us to report to you if, in our opinion, the disclosures of directors’ remuneration and transactions specified by law are not made.

For and on behalf of Chartered Accountants and Statutory Audit Firm Dublin

Date:

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The following accounting policies have been applied consistently in dealing with items which are considered material in relation to the company’s financial statements.

BASIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PREPARATION

The audited financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting standards generally accepted in Ireland and Irish statute comprising the Companies Acts 1963 to 2013. Accounting Standards generally accepted in Ireland in preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view are those issued by the Financial Reporting Council and published by the Auditing Practices Board in the UK and Ireland. The financial statements include the financial statements of the central office and five regions, Eastern, Leinster, Ulster, Munster and Connaught.

INCOME

Grants Income is recognised in the Income and Expenditure Account as the related expenditure is incurred.

Income is recognised as it is received for Fundraising, Sponsorship and Donation Income, Trusts, Other income. Other income includes Cost Recovery Income, Merchandise Income and Participant Fees. Cost recovery income refers to reimbursement by third parties of expenditure already incurred.

Investment Income is recognised on a receivable basis.

Capital grants are treated as a deferred grant in creditors and amortised in line with depreciation on the related asset.

TAXATION

The Company has charitable status and therefore is exempt from corporation tax.

TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS AND DEPRECIATION

Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation less residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows:

Computer equipment - 33% Straight Line Office Equipment - 25% Straight Line Fixtures & Fittings - 25% Straight Line Motor Vehicles - 25% Straight Line

INVESTMENTS

Fixed asset investments are stated at cost less provision for permanent diminution in value. Fixed asset investments include bonds and deposit accounts maturing in greater than one year.

STOCK

Stock consists of merchandising, promotional materials, medals and consumables and is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

PENSIONS

The Company operates a defined contribution scheme. Contributions payable to this scheme are charged to the profit and loss account in the period in which they relate. These contributions are invested separately to the company’s assets.

FOREIGN CURRENCIES

Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into Euros at the rate of exchange prevailing at the accounting date. Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded at the date of the transactions. All differences are taken to the Income and Expenditure account. 12 44

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STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES

RESERVE

It is stated policy of the charity to ensure that there are sufficient reserves available to meet projected expenditure for a minimum of twelve months ahead.

Restricted reserves are represented by income received by the company which is restricted to a specific purpose by the donor which is unspent at the year end. Unrestricted reserves are available for the company to use in furtherance of its work and objectives.

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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

Notes 2013 2012 € €

INCOME

Grants 1 2,238,083 2,366,681 Fundraising, sponsorship and donations 2 1,774,073 1,798,037 Investment income 3 329,485 467,431 Other income 4 136,651 119,843

TOTAL INCOME 4,478,292 4,751,992

EXPENDITURE

Sports programmes 5 1,936,121 1,863,099 Games and events 5 530,721 575,967 Support programmes 5 1,432,425 1,455,931 Governance 5 497,216 464,712 Advocacy 5 320,890 306,538 Fundraising 5 836,388 967,137

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 5,553,761 5,633,384

DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR BEFORE RESTRICTED RESERVES EXPENDITURE 6 (1,075,469) (881,392)

Restricted reserve expenditure 16 (30,669) (58,859)

DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR 16 (1,106,138) (940,251)

There are no recognised gains or losses other than those arising from continuing operations disclosed in the Income and Expenditure Account.

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board of Directors on ………………………..………..………. and signed on its behalf by:

On behalf of the Board

______Director Director

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BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2013

Notes 2013 2012 € € FIXED ASSETS Fixed Assets 10 62,619 115,175 Investments 11 3,243,535 4,118,518

3,306,154 4,233,693

CURRENT ASSETS Stocks 12 74,233 85,971 Bank and cash 3,533,699 4,047,594 Debtors 13 591,849 493,272

4,199,781 4,626,837

CREDITORS: (Amounts falling due within one year) 14 (364,439) (612,896)

NET CURRENT ASSETS 3,835,342 4,013,941

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 7,141,496 8,247,634

RESERVES

Restricted Reserves Regional office Reserves 1,313,085 1,320,322 Host Town Fund 30,335 52,652 Paris to Nice Reserve 17,082 5,176 Open Eyes 6,230 6,230

15 1,366,732 1,384,380

Unrestricted Reserves Unrestricted funds 16 491,023 1,579,513 Designated Funding Reserve 2012 to 2015 16 5,283,741 5,283,741

5,774,764 6,863,254

MEMBERS’ FUNDS 17 7,141,496 8,247,634

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board of Directors on …………………..………..……………. and signed on its behalf by:

On behalf of the Board

______Director Director

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CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

Notes 2013 2012 € €

NET CASH OUTFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 18 (1,709,939) (1,470,211)

Returns on investments and servicing of finance Interest received 3 329,485 467,431

Capital expenditure and financial investment Payments to acquire tangible assets 10 (8,424) (118,531)

Financing Capital grant received - 12,013

DECREASE IN CASH IN THE YEAR 19 (1,388,878) (1,109,298)

RECONCILIATION OF NET CASH OUTFLOW TO MOVEMENT IN NET FUNDS

Decrease in cash in the year 19 (1,388,878) (1,109,298)

Net funds at 1 January 2013 8,166,112 9,275,410

NET FUNDS AT 31 DECEMBER 2013 6,777,234 8,166,112 19

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

1. GRANT INCOME 2013 2012 € €

Irish Sports Council 1,206,211 1,200,000 Sports Council of Northern Ireland 700,405 715,739 Health Services Executive 69,000 120,175 Irish Aid - 37,500 Other grants 262,467 293,267

2,238,083 2,366,681

2. FUNDRAISING SPONSORSHIP AND DONATIONS 2013 2012 € €

Fundraising, Sponsorship and Donations 1,774,073 1,798,037

3. INVESTMENT INCOME 2013 2012 € €

Investment income 329,485 467,431

4. OTHER INCOME 2013 2012 € €

Participant fees 91,663 84,825 Sundry income 44,988 35,018

136,651 119,843

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

5. EXPENDITURE

Sports Games & Support Programme Events Programmes Governance Advocacy Fundraising 2013 2012 € € € € € € € €

Payroll 1,120,123 413,678 982,405 298,722 140,611 511,236 3,466,775 3,648,353 Sports Programmes 687,727 4,417 - - - - 692,144 576,972 Support Programmes - - 306,747 - - - 306,747 329,266 Volunteer Services - - 37,833 - - - 37,833 19,507 Games - 7,186 - - - - 7,186 60,901 Strategic Costs - - - - 109,105 - 109,105 35,810 Financial Administration - - - 93,054 - - 93,054 90,239 IT 18,179 18,179 18,179 18,179 - 18,179 90,895 91,459 HR & Operations 6,602 3,351 3,351 3,351 - 3,351 20,006 44,800 PR & Communications - - - - 71,174 - 71,174 82,453 Rents, Service Charges & General Office 83,910 83,910 83,910 83,910 - 83,910 419,550 309,864 Other Projects 19,580 - - - - - 19,580 46,677 Fundraising Costs - - - - - 219,712 219,712 297,083

Total 2013 1,936,121 530,721 1,432,425 497,216 320,890 836,388 5,553,761 5,633,384

Total 2012 1,863,099 575,967 1,455,931 464,712 306,538 967,137 5,633,384

6. DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR 2013 2012 € € Deficit for the year is stated after charging/(crediting):

Directors’ remuneration - - Depreciation of tangible assets 60,980 66,204 Auditors’ remuneration 16,605 16,605 Investment income (329,485) (467,431)

Auditors’ remuneration is €13,500, exclusive of VAT and outlay. The auditors provided no other services (tax advisory, other assurance and other non-audit) during the year.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

7. EMPLOYEES 2013 2012 Number Number

The average number of employees during the year was 84 87

2013 2012 € €

Wages and salaries 3,090,239 3,258,450 Social welfare costs 320,799 336,439 Other pension costs 55,737 53,552 CE Scheme payroll costs 236,832 258,287

3,703,607 3,906,728

In 2013, six staff received remuneration over €70,000 of which the CEO’s salary was €125,000. Remuneration reflects total salary and excludes employer pension and PRSI contributions.

The company operates a voluntary defined contributions pension scheme for active members the employer matches an employee’s 5% contribution.

8. TRANSACTIONS WITH DIRECTORS AND RELATED PARTIES

There were no related party transactions with the directors during the period. Friends of Special Olympics Ireland (FOSOI) is related to the company as there are two common directors. It is not owned or controlled by the company. During the year a research grant of €70,000 was received by FOSOI on behalf of the company. The company also incurred expenditure of €1,161 on behalf of FOSOI. Payments on account of €6,300 were received by the company resulting in an amount receivable from FOSOI of €64,861 which is included in trade debtors.

9. PENSION COSTS

The Company operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The scheme and its assets are held separately from those of the company in independently administered funds. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the funds and amounted to €55,737 (2012: €53,552). There were no amounts payable at the year end (2012: €Nil).

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

10. TANGIBLE ASSETS Computer Office Furniture Motor Equipment Equipment & Fittings Vehicles Total € € € € € Cost At beginning of year 337,886 38,364 41,872 55,841 473,963 Additions 8,424 - - - 8,424

At end of year 346,310 38,364 41,872 55,841 482,387

Depreciation At beginning of year 249,227 23,899 37,711 47,951 358,788 Charge for the year 46,719 3,936 2,435 7,890 60,980

At end of year 295,946 27,835 40,146 55,841 419,768

Net book values

At 31 December 2013 50,364 10,529 1,726 - 62,619

At 31 December 2012 88,659 14,465 4,161 7,890 115,175

11. INVESTMENTS 2013 2012 € €

Investments at cost 3,243,535 4,118,518

12. STOCKS 2013 2012 € €

Stocks 74,233 85,971

There are no material differences between the replacement cost of stock and the balance sheet amount.

13. DEBTORS 2013 2012 € €

Trade debtors 72,946 11,477 Other debtors 10,991 45,349 Prepayments 72,712 85,513 Accrued income 435,200 350,933

591,849 493,272

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

14. CREDITORS 2013 2012 € € Amounts falling due within one year:

Trade creditors 21,378 215,373 Other creditors 17,647 20,893 PAYE and social welfare 90,638 174,086 Accruals and deferred income 59,607 70,604 Deferred income 175,169 131,940

364,439 612,896

15. RESTRICTED RESERVES

Regional Host Paris Open Reserves Town To Nice Eyes Fund Fund Fund Total € € € € €

Funds at 1 January 2013 1,320,322 52,652 5,176 6,230 1,384,380 Transfer from unrestricted funds - - 13,021 - 13,021 Transfer restricted reserve expenditure from unrestricted Grants paid out - (22,317) (1,115) - (23,432) Loss on retranslation of reserves (7,237) - - - (7,237)

Funds at 31 December 2013 1,313,085 30,335 17,082 6,230 1,366,732

16. UNRESTRICTED RESERVES

Designated Unrestricted Funding Reserve Reserve Total € € €

At 1 January 2013 1,579,513 5,283,741 6,863,254 Deficit for the year (1,106,138) - (1,106,138) Transfer restricted reserve expenditure to restricted 30,669 - 30,669 Transfer to restricted reserve (13,021) - (13,021)

At 31 December 2013 491,023 5,283,741 5,774,764

Designated Funding Reserve:

It is the stated policy of the charity to ensure that there are sufficient reserves available to meet projected expenditure for a period of 12 months ahead due to the volatile nature of its main funding service from public fundraising. A Designated Funding Reserve was created in 2004 to help meet future planned budgetary requirements which are currently estimated at €23m over the four year programme cycle 2012 – 2015.

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

17. RECONCILIATION OF MOVEMENTS IN MEMBERS’ FUNDS 2013 2012 € €

Deficit for the year (1,106,138) (940,251) Opening members’ funds 8,247,634 9,187,885

Closing members’ funds 7,141,496 8,247,634

18. RECONCILIATION OF OPERATING DEFICIT TO NET CASH OUTFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Operating deficit (1,106,138) (940,251) Investment income (329,485) (467,431) Depreciation and amortisation 60,980 65,704 Increase in debtors (98,577) (351,727) Decrease in stock 11,738 24,761 (Decrease)/increase in creditors (248,457) 198,733

NET CASH OUTFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES (1,709,939) (1,470,211)

19. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

Opening Cash Closing Balance Flows Balance € € €

Investments 4,118,518 (874,983) 3,243,535 Bank, cash and short term investments 4,047,594 (513,895) 3,533,699

8,166,112 (1,388,878) 6,777,234

20. LEASE COMMITMENTS

Operating leases:

At the balance sheet date the company had annual commitments under operating leases as set out below:

2013 2012 € € Expiring: Within one year 36,388 24,689 Between two and five years 178,294 210,229 More than five years 151,197 147,475

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