What we want to achieve together
To provide forward thinking, compassionate and inclusive leadership. Leadership that fosters trust within physically and psychologically safe environments and which puts players, the community and sustainability at heart of every decision.
What does success look like?
- Demonstrating and holding ourselves (and others)- accountable to the highest standards, throughout our organisation and the game ensuring a clean sport with sound safeguarding and reporting practices consistently seeking to build and maintain a trusted relationship with all
- Enhancing injury reporting by increasing compliance and including gender split to support concussion monitoring and help us make better informed targeted interventions to protect those on the field of play
- Ensuring all clubs, counties and regions meet the Equality Diversity & Inclusion Framework requirements
- Building on our momentum from our work on social sustainability through the ED&I action plan; develop, communicate, track progress and report against a sustainability programme
- Diversifying England Hockey revenue by increasing to 40%+ (currently 30%) sourced from non ringfenced government sources. This enables us to allow money to flow to areas of the game most in need
How are England Hockey going to lead and support this?
Our promise to you is to govern the game effectively, efficiently and safely We will conduct a rules and regulations review and implement the recommendations that follow. We will continue to develop, guide and support the sport on the health and safety across the game serving to protect the welfare of all involved including listening and involving our athletes in decisions.
To support the ambitions of England Hockey and make the game more visible, relevant and accessible; we will develop and implement a long-term international plan of influence in order to overcome any international barriers to growth and make the most of any collaboration opportunities.
We will embed and provide support for major change programmes such as the ‘Talent development – a new way forward’ strategy and area governance changes.
And we will nurture, champion and support the strong, passionate, enthusiastic custodians and ambassadors of the sport.
We will build and increase inclusivity through every part of our sport and culture
We will continue to create and support an inclusive culture for the sport and the governance structures of the game by implementing our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion action plan. And we commit to reporting back on our progress.
There is always room to improve the way we communicate and collaborate with the sport. We will work with advisory groups and social channels to make sure we are hearing and speaking to all parts of our hockey community.
We will use technology to enhance insight, access and enjoyment We want to make sure that our use of technology is a benefit to the hockey community. This means technology that provides a frictionless user experience, is efficient and easy to use and that enables good governance across both our internal and external systems.
Maintaining our foundations and building change
As the governing body it is our responsibility to make sure that we secure investment in the game and spend that in the best way possible. That means exercising sound cost control, best practice in investment decisions and sound judgment when it comes to procurement.
We will continue to seek out and secure investment for our game and community by staying close to government instruments and other funding opportunities.