Sign up to #HockeyFest 2016

Scottish Hockey are joining forces with England Hockey and Hockey Wales to bring you a Great Britain wide #Hockeyfest in 2016!

HockeyFest is the social event of the season, offering clubs a fantastic opportunity to promote themselves, show off their current facilities and raise funds for new equipment or projects.
Supported by Notts Sport, HockeyFest is open to everyone and gives clubs the chance to develop unity and excitement in the build-up to the season.
HockeyFest will take place this year from August 20th to September 11th 2016.
With the Women’s Champions Trophy at Lee Valley in July, followed by the Rio Olympics in August this will be a great opportunity for clubs to open their doors and welcome hockey players to start the season with a bang

HockeyFest is the social event of the season, offering clubs a fantastic opportunity to promote themselves, show off their current facilities and raise funds for new equipment or projects.

Supported by Notts Sport, HockeyFest is open to everyone and gives clubs the chance to develop unity and excitement in the build-up to the season.

HockeyFest will take place this year from August 20th to September 11th 2016.

With the Women’s Champions Trophy at Lee Valley in July, followed by the Rio Olympics in August this will be a great opportunity for clubs to open their doors and welcome hockey players to start the season with a bang!

Register Your Club’s interest by completing the Registration Form (Survey Monkey)

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The initiative ran in England last year from 29 August – 13 September – from showing live action from the EuroHockey2015, to engaging with existing players and encouraging new participants in a family focused and social day, HockeyFest 2015 was a great success for all involved.

Samantha Phipps is a player, team captain and treasurer at Sutton Coldfield Ladies Hockey Club.

Tell us about your HockeyFest:

“I had a lot to do with creating the event and wanted to make sure that it ran smoothly. I was welcoming existing and new members and those stepping into the ladies club from the juniors section.”

What did you expect beforehand?

I thought it would be a fun, sociable day with lots of people catching up from the summer break, with a bit of light-hearted hockey thrown in.

What did you get up to?

I helped with the juniors’ mixed games, set up cakes, promoted the new kit, helped with the warm-up and then joined in with the hockey.

How did it go?

I thought it went really well; everyone seemed to have fun and mix throughout worth it! We don’t have our own pitch but this is something that we are keen to look into; I think it would help our club to grow. We are city-based and a lot of parkland is protected so space is at a premium. We would like to raise the club’s profile to try and get some funding for space. HockeyFest got good local coverage – further events like that should help.

What could be done better?

I think more central marketing resources could be made available; for a previous season posters were emailed out so that we could drag and drop our own text in. More information about what is available centrally would also be useful. In terms of our club itself it would have been good to have some more new members – more local advertising would help. It would also have been nice to have a social event in the afternoon or evening.

Register from 9am on 1 March 2016. If you are one of the first 100 clubs to register you will be entered into a prize draw. All you need to do is complete the Registration Form

 

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