Tricks 4 Sticks

Tricks 4 Sticks offers your club the opportunity to increase youth participation numbers (girls and boys) through the running of a targeted schools programme in your area. Clubs that are successfully accepted onto Tricks 4 Sticks receive funding to cover the programme’s coaching costs.

Supported by the Irish Sports Council’s Women in Sport, Tricks 4 Sticks sends a qualified hockey coach into local schools for an agreed number of weeks (on average 4 to 8 weeks). Representing your club, the coach delivers a fantastic high energy hockey programme and creates links to your club. At the end of the programme the pupils are invited to visit your club grounds whilst the school also receives a ‘Tricks 4 Sticks pack’ to encourage them to continue playing hockey.

Benefits of Tricks 4 Sticks

· Increased youth membership numbers in your club

· Hockey Ireland cover the cost of coaching in schools

· Long-lasting links with local Primary and Secondary schools in your area are created through Tricks 4 Sticks

· Club receives best practice on how to structure an effective schools programme through guidelines and coaching session plans

· Club receives best practice on catering for children at club open days