Here at the University of York Hockey Club, we need your help! Your financial support will ensure that we can afford transport to fixtures, continue to work with our wonderful coach Heather MacDonald and fund equipment, to keep our teams competing at the highest level. 

Our Story

Challenge Week is back for another year, and what a year it has been for UYHC! From going unbeaten outfield at Roses and winning our first indoor game since 2018 to having several of our teams in contention for promotion at the end of this season, our club has had a year marked by progression and successes.

Continuation of this upward trajectory is our goal going forward, and this is only possible with your generous support. With three women’s teams, four men’s teams and a development squad of over 30 members, your funds will help cover the cost of equipment, transport and coaching for our club!

Where will the money go?

Our aim this year is to raise around £3,000 pounds, through both unlocking funds via challenges or through your generous donations. This would allow us to prepare fully for Roses, with plenty of functioning equipment, coaching and kit! Every penny helps here, whether it be donations of £3 or £20. Anything you could contribute would be welcome and appreciated, even if it’s just partaking in one of our challenges or spreading the word to your friends and family! Your donations are incredibly important to us for innumerable reasons, the most important of which are outlined below.

Why is this so important? 

• After the recent success of our ladies indoor side at a friendly tournament in Scarborough, a decision was made to dedicate more attention to indoor hockey - with this came acknowledgement that our equipment needed improvement, particularly our indoor boards. A feature of indoor hockey that makes the game a particularly fun one to watch is that individuals can play the ball off the ‘walls’ (boards), but with our boards in as dire a state as they were, the essential purchase of newer ones has set us back considerably. Support to help offset these costs, as well as funding the purchase of new balls and sticks, would prove invaluable in the further development of this unique sport.
• Additionally, our wonderful coach for this season, Heather, has been integral to all of our successes. Alongside regular Monday night coaching, she has also been coaching us on Wednesdays and during our indoor sessions - your funds would allow us to continue to work with her for the coming 25/26 season.
• Finally, while we aren’t the only club to suffer from the astronomical transport costs this season, the sheer volume of teams we have means we have been struggling to afford buses to fixtures each week, which puts our league standings unnecessarily in jeopardy. Your support would remove this obstacle from our pursuit of promotion! 

Keeping hockey financially accessible to all is of the utmost importance to us at UYHC. Physical and mental wellbeing is important in all stages of life, but with uni as mentally demanding and stressful as it can be, the community that comes with being a part of a sports team is more important than ever. Thanks to your generosity, we can continue to guarantee the accessibility of the sport we all love so much! 

The Challenges

In the last two Challenge Weeks, we raised a considerable amount of money, so this year we aim to continue this amazing trend; to raise donations, members of the club will be completing various challenges, including the infamous 3 peaks challenge, running challenges, bake sales and more!

Find us here

Follow us on social media (@uyhc_official on instagram and tik tok) to keep updated on our Challenge Week progress. 

Help us succeed! 

We would love you to donate as much or as little as you are able, and any donations are hugely appreciated. Your donation could also help us unlock fundraising challenges which will help us reach our goal even faster (you can see these on the challenges page). 

If you are looking to support an individual athlete or challenge please put a message with your donation saying who! 

Alternatively, if you are unable to donate then please do spread the word by signing up as a Challenge Week ambassador for our club, and sharing our social media posts to your own socials so as many people as possible can read about our efforts. 

Please help us succeed this challenge week and consider donating to UYHC.