What is Hawks@90?
Hawks@90 is our plan to take our fabulous club to the next level, building on our amazing heritage to create a sustainable, inclusive and forward-looking club well positioned to drive hockey forwards in Oxfordshire and beyond.
The plan addresses 4 primary areas, Our Community, Our Home, Our Management and Our Future.
Our Future
Nurturing Young People to be the sustainable heart of our community on and off the pitch
Guiding Principles For Hawks@90
Sustainable
We will nurture talent from within to drive our performance squads to the top of English hockey. We will put financial and environmental sustainability at the heart of our clubhouse plans.
Inclusive
Exactly like our sport, our club will continue to welcome everyone, of every level of ability and every background. We will ensure that our clubhouse supports everyone’s social and sporting needs.
Fun
The foundation of hockey at every level should always be ‘for fun’ and we want to embody that in the work we need to do for our Hawks@90 plan. We hope that we can all have fun as we evolve our club towards its 90th birthday!
For the good of hockey
We hope that as a player/supporter at Hawks you’ll know how much hockey can give – fun, fitness, friendship and more. We want to ensure that everything we do within the Hawks@90 programme is for the good of this amazing sport, and can help other clubs around the country to put our sport at the top of everyone’s mind!
Our Vision
Why are we doing it?
- Recognise that our sport is becoming increasingly professional
- The expectations of those playing is increasing
- Be realistic about the demands of running a large sports club
- Create an increase sense of belonging to our club, including within the community it sits in
- See our high standards reflect in a clubhouse we can be proud of
