Why membership is necessary to you and to the game
Final month, a brand new membership season started which is all the time an thrilling time for faculties, golf equipment, and provinces throughout the nation. As we sit up for this season, it’s well timed to contemplate the methods during which your membership payment contributes to supporting the supply of providers for you throughout this season. On this article, we are going to look at precisely what your payment goes in direction of.
While you be part of FHC, the membership goes to a number of key areas:
Insurance coverage — All sport legal responsibility insurance coverage for registered individuals is roofed by your Area Hockey Canada insurance coverage.
Nationwide occasions, packages and pathways — From youth to masters, Area Hockey Canada affords packages, groups, programs and occasions for everybody.
Nationwide pathways, schooling and help for teaching and officers.
F-RED – All member provinces in addition to golf equipment throughout Canada have free entry to the nationwide database. This creates value and security efficiencies inside the system which profit all members and individuals. Totally customizable in your province or membership, F-RED affords seamless integration and a system which serves centralization and native wants alike.
Neighborhood sport, Faculties program, Stick Collectively — Over the previous three years, Area Hockey Canada, in collaboration with the Canadian Authorities, has pushed over $1M of funding immediately into communities throughout Canada to make the sport inclusive and accessible.
Member providers — In our present construction, the members of Area Hockey Canada are the provinces. Everybody else is captured beneath the time period ‘registered participant.’ Area Hockey Canada affords month-to-month member conferences the place employees and leaders from throughout Canada meet to debate strategic route, key providers and to share information.
Nationwide Groups — A portion of your membership payment goes to fund nationwide groups. With prices of journey and touring ever rising, it takes our complete group to ship profitable nationwide groups to the worldwide stage. Your annual portion of the membership which fits to Area Hockey Canada is an important and well-received contribution.
On this coming membership season, Area Hockey Canada is endeavor a governance evaluate to align the bylaws nearer to Canadian Governance Code. FHC is focusing on supply of this by January 2026. In parallel, consideration can even be given to a brand new payment construction. The charges for membership and participation haven’t risen in over a decade and it’s very important to revisit this as we glance to generate extra help for all areas, notably our nationwide groups.
CEO Susan Ahrens stated the membership construction and participant’s formal connection into Area Hockey Canada is an necessary driver of each group and high-performance hockey throughout the nation.
“Area Hockey Canada as the governing physique of the game in Canada, is chargeable for main the nationwide route of the game. It achieves this by delivering methods that information decision-making to guarantee sustainable progress and long-term success. With clear pathways for athletes, coaches, officers and nationwide occasions from youth to school and masters, Area Hockey Canada because the nationwide sport group performs an important position in sport management at native, nationwide and worldwide degree.” Ahrens stated. “In fact, jurisdiction for supply of many parts together with coach schooling and native degree occasions lies with the provincial members moderately than FHC, so by our month-to-month member conferences, we glance to foster readability in these roles and duties to help supply and serve all communities whereas concurrently constructing our bigger nationwide imaginative and prescient.”
As we transfer into this season, we’re in a very thrilling time. You’ll see the up to date governance parts coming into impact, a brand new strategic plan and the brand new nationwide competitors construction, which we might be launching shortly. Maintain updated with all FHC information by following us throughout our channels.
