Since 2010, member discipline hockey golf equipment within the Netherlands have obtained a bonus for each new Volvo bought or leased by a discipline hockey participant or discipline hockey dad or mum. The so-called Volvo Membership Bonus – an initiative of the automobile model and native sellers in cooperation with the KNHB – offers golf equipment with as much as a thousand euros per automobile. However what occurs subsequent with that cash? 4 golf equipment share their tales.
Delta Venlo: from expertise discipline to playground
Delta Venlo has been utilizing the Volvo Membership Bonus for years. The membership, which has about 1,600 members, all the time tries to hyperlink the proceeds of the bonus to a particular purpose. Final 12 months, for instance, a expertise discipline was realized: a small multifunctional sports activities discipline measuring twelve by six meters. ‘It was a want of many youth members,’ says chairman Jeroen Bakkers. ‘We additionally positioned basketball poles subsequent to it. That means we encourage versatile train. That contributes to the motor growth of younger athletes.’
This season, the membership is investing in a brand new playground. The outdated sandbox was flooded too typically due to the excessive groundwater degree. ‘With the cash from the Membership Bonus and others, we will now construct a full-size playground in a greater location.’
The finished expertise discipline at Delta Venlo
Waddinxveen: secure discipline for toddlers
Waddinxveen, a comparatively small membership with 372 members, spent the Membership Bonus this season on renovating the Funkey discipline. On this discipline the youngest kids aged 4 to 6 prepare each Saturday morning. ‘The fencing wanted changing and we had the synthetic turf completely cleaned,’ mentioned Martina van der Wilt, coordinator of the sponsorship committee. ‘As well as, with the proceeds from the Volvo marketing campaign, amongst different issues, we changed our picket out of doors furnishings with extra sturdy plastic furnishings. It’s a good technique to put money into our lodging. Particularly since we need to develop to 400 members. You then additionally need to preserve investing in high quality.’
The brand new benches and tables of Waddinxveen
Alphen: from goalkeeping tools to chilly storage
For Alphen, with some 900 to 1,000 members, the Volvo Membership Bonus is a welcome addition to the common funds. ‘We by no means know precisely how a lot it brings in annually, so we don’t embrace it in our funds,’ says secretary Steffelien Buikema. ‘It’s actually a pot for extras. For issues that simply don’t match, however are badly wanted.’
This 12 months Alphen invested the proceeds in new goalkeeping tools. ‘Plenty of straps and components had been worn out. Due to the bonus, we had been capable of substitute it earlier than it actually couldn’t final.’ Beforehand, the membership additionally used the cash for extra youth targets and unexpected bills, reminiscent of a damaged fridge.
Partnership visibility can be taken significantly. On the Volvo dealership there’s a model with the membership outfit and in the course of the household match the bonus is delivered to the eye. Buikema: ‘It brings in some eight thousand euros yearly. That’s actually value it.
Woerden: investing in expertise and expertise
At Woerden, the Membership Bonus had been forgotten in recent times. Till this season. We’ve got revived the marketing campaign,” says John Loos, board member for lodging and sponsorship. ‘We used the proceeds this 12 months for our personal youth coaching: the Groene Hart Hockey Academy.’
With that training, Woerden presents technical coaching on Fridays and Sundays all 12 months spherical, additionally for gamers from outdoors. ‘For that we want supplies: targets, pawns, etcetera. And we additionally put money into coaching trainers. With this plan we need to give our youth the possibility to develop and preserve them for our personal membership.
The Groene Hart Academy was opened with a clinic with worldwide Koen Bijen.
Moreover coaching gamers and coaches, the bonus can be used for initiatives that strengthen the membership spirit: a colour run by the neighborhood park, picnic tables the place groups and fogeys meet and a digicam above the scoreboard to make analyses. Loos: “We need to be greater than only a place the place you play discipline hockey. And due to this bonus, we will make that occur.
This text was produced in cooperation with the business division of the KNHB. The editors of discipline hockey.nl bear no accountability for the content material of this text.
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