Our Vision, Mission & Goals
Giving hockey’s history a future.
The Hockey Museum: the first and only museum for hockey in the world.
Discover our Purpose and Direction
The Hockey Museum is the first and only museum for hockey in the world. We are a charity working to preserve, share and celebrate the rich history and heritage of the sport of hockey, not only in Britain where the ‘modern’ game started, but also from all round the world.
The Museum is home to a growing collection of hockey archives and heritage objects which we make accessible to the hockey family and the wider public through our website, exhibition and outreach programme, and our mailing list newsletters Hockey Shorts. You can subscribe to receive Hockey Shorts at the bottom of this page.
Explore our Charitable Objects, Vision, Mission and Goals alongside our Commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion below.
Charitable Objects
The Hockey Museum is a UK charity, number 1170979.
Our Charitable Objects, as agreed with the Charity Commission and to which our Board of Trustees are bound are as follows:
“Advancing the education of the public in the history and development of hockey and its antecedents, in particular by establishing or maintaining a museum for the permanent exhibition and preservation of items of education and/or historic value.”
Vision, Mission & Values
Inspiring people to embrace hockey's values by sharing engaging stories through innovation and inclusivity.
OUR VALUES
For The Hockey Museum: Origins | Evolution | Family | Inspire | Respect | Success
For Hockey: Integrity | Solidarity | Inclusion | Courage | Respect
We will achieve our Vision Statement by:
- Putting our audiences first.
- Collecting, researching and preserving the hockey story.
- Reaching out to players and non-players.
- Being digital by default; and
- Achieving sustainability through representative governance and resilient finances, underpinned by an ethos of training and skills development for all.
Strategic Goals
Our Mission statement leads to these Goals:
Collections
Collect, research and preserve the hockey story.
Audiences
Greater engagement online.
Increase engagement with hockey clubs.
Increase engagement with the Woking community.
Increase engagement internationally.
Outreach
Reach out to players and non-hockey players.
Digital
Become digital by default by 2024.
Sustainability
Strengthen our governance.
Increase our inclusivity and diversity.
Increase and broaden our income base.
Develop our skills base through training.
Commitments
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
1. We will continue to state our commitment to EDI in our Mission, Vision and Strategic Goals and will maintain an EDI Committee to ensure that THM delivers an EDI Action Plan and reports progress against it to the Board of Trustees at every board meeting.
2. We will ensure that we are inclusive and that our communications and activities represent the global hockey family who share protected characteristics, and diverse backgrounds and experiences. We commit to consulting with THM audiences to shape our plans and work together to create content.
3. We will embed EDI into our culture, creating a safe and welcoming environment that is inclusive. Our culture will celebrate and represent the diverse society in which we live and work in, ensuring everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.
4. We will seek to enable all visitors to The Hockey Museum in person and online, to have a positive experience that is welcoming and inclusive. This will involve looking at how we can break down barriers to enable this positive experience.
5. We will promote trustee, job and volunteering roles to different community networks and platforms and adhere to recruitment best practices.
Awards
We are a young, award-winning museum.
In May 2018, The Hockey Museum was awarded Accredited Museum status by Arts Council England and later that year our work was recognised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) when we received the President’s Award at the FIH Congress for our “contribution to preserving hockey’s heritage”.
In recent years we have been awarded project funding from Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, South East Museum Development, and the Surrey Museums Partnership.