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Volunteering

Volunteers are people like you and me. We come from all walks of life and have lots of different reasons for getting involved.

In hockey, volunteers can participate in literally hundreds of roles from club or school right through to the very top of the international programme. Those of us who volunteer may be coaches or umpires, we may be club officials or the bar-keeper, the tea maker, a member of the ball patrol team, the pitch setter-upper, the pitch supervisor at a major event, the junior team manager, the club web-master, the fixture secretary, the welfare officer, the membership secretary, the social secretary, the match official... the list is endless.

There are two very important facts that can’t escape us…

1. Volunteers are the heartbeat of hockey in England
2. Volunteers are massively valuable to our sport 

Volunteers are the heartbeat of most sports and it is because of the role they play, the size of the responsibilities they undertake and the value of their actions, that sports governing bodies, sports clubs and organisations seriously value volunteers and volunteering.

Young volunteers get involved in voluntary activities in a range of settings, but sport is the most popular. The England Hockey Leadership Award and Leadership Plus Programme is a fantastic way to start. It offers foundation level coaching, umpiring, management and core leadership skills, all bundled together in four excellent modules.

Volunteering gives everyone a chance to share their skills and talents with others, as well as an opportunity to develop a new skill. It brings friends together and enables you to make more friends. It is genuinely very rewarding.

If you have a passion for hockey and for volunteering, why not find out whether there’s a volunteering opportunity for you? Why not try and get involved with event management or coaching, umpiring or leading.  There are lots of opportunities.

Please keep visiting this section of our website for updates and releases relating to volunteer recruitment and don’t forget – volunteering offers you the chance to have amazing experiences, to make new friends with people from all walks of life and to make a difference!