Rebound Sports Community Innovation Briefing
Small Local Investment. Visible Community Impact.
Interactive activity infrastructure for clubs, community centres, schools, and shared public spaces
Rebound Sports helps Irish communities create inclusive, weatherproof, and digitally engaging activity spaces through mobile and permanent interactive sports and movement solutions.
This page is intended for councillors, local representatives, community development officers, Local Sports Partnerships, clubs, schools and community organisations exploring practical projects that can support health, wellbeing, youth engagement, active ageing and shared community use.
Why This Matters Locally
Across towns, villages and rural communities, local organisations are facing familiar challenges. Young people are spending more time on screens and less time in physical activity. Poor weather limits participation for much of the year. Community centres and sports facilities need to increase usage and create new reasons for people to gather. Older adults need more opportunities for social connection and movement. Clubs and community groups need flexible infrastructure that works across age groups, ability levels and different types of events.
Rebound Sports offers a practical response to these challenges by combining physical activity, digital engagement, social interaction and inclusive play in a format that can be adapted to local needs.
The Rebound Sports Solution
iSports Mobile
The iSportsMobile is a flexible interactive activity system that can be deployed in community halls, sports clubs, schools, leisure centres, events, and shared indoor spaces. It creates an engaging, screen-based physical activity experience without requiring a permanent installation.
It is particularly suited to communities that want to pilot an innovation project, support multiple user groups, run activity programmes, or test demand before considering a fixed installation.
Permanent Interactive Installations
Permanent interactive installations can transform underused indoor spaces into year-round activity hubs. These are suitable for community centres, clubs, leisure facilities, schools, student unions, and venues that want to create a longer-term activity and revenue-generating asset.
A permanent installation can support sport, recreation, family engagement, active ageing, inclusion programmes, social gaming, and structured community activity sessions.
Community Outcomes
Rebound Sports solutions can support a wide range of local priorities, including youth engagement, healthier activity habits, active ageing, disability inclusion, family participation, weatherproof activity, community cohesion, improved use of existing facilities, and local revenue generation.
The value is not simply in the technology. The value is in creating a shared local asset that brings people together, supports movement, encourages participation, and gives community organisations something new and practical to offer.
Who Can Benefit
This concept may be relevant for GAA clubs, soccer clubs, tennis clubs, community centres, schools, youth services, disability inclusion programmes, active ageing groups, family resource centres, local authorities, Local Sports Partnerships, student unions, hotels, leisure facilities, and community event organisers.
Because the technology can be used across multiple sports, games, and activity formats, it avoids being limited to one age group, one club, or one type of user.
Funding Pathways
Local projects may be supported through a combination of funding routes, including the Community Centre Investment Fund, Sports Capital and Equipment Programme, LEADER, Healthy Ireland initiatives, Age-Friendly programmes, local discretionary funding, sponsorship, co-funding, and community enterprise models.
A modest local contribution can often act as seed funding to help unlock a larger project, demonstrate support, or strengthen a future funding application.
Why Councillors and Local Representatives Should Take Notice
This is a practical community innovation project with visible local impact. It aligns with common local priorities such as youth engagement, health and wellbeing, rural regeneration, active ageing, inclusion, better use of public and community infrastructure, and supporting community organisations to become more financially sustainable.
For local representatives, the opportunity is to help communities explore a project that is modern, inclusive, visible, and capable of serving multiple groups from the same shared asset.
Pilot Opportunity
Rebound Sports is open to discussing pilot projects with local representatives, community groups, clubs, schools and facilities interested in exploring whether an interactive activity solution could work in their area.
A pilot discussion can help identify the right setting, likely user groups, funding options, operating model, potential partners and the most appropriate technology format.
Download the Councillor Briefing Sheet
A short one-page briefing sheet is available for councillors, local representatives, and community stakeholders who want a quick overview of the opportunity.
Contact
William Hogan
Rebound Sports. Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
087 2549010
will@reboundsports.ie
www.reboundsports.ie
If you are a councillor, community representative, club officer, or facility manager and would like to explore a local pilot or demonstration discussion, please get in touch.
Next ... Please watch the virtual demo video here, so you know what to expect when you try it for real! ... and don't forget to bring some colleagues.