A Report on the Historical Development of Hockey in the United Kingdom

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of hockey in the United Kingdom. It begins by tracing the sport's origins and evolution, highlighting key milestones and the role of England Hockey as the governing body, formed in 2003 to replace the English Hockey Association. The report delves into how the sport is promoted, the media's presentation of hockey, participation rates across different age groups and genders, and the various funding sources that support the sport, including public and commercial funding, and the National Lottery. Furthermore, the report explores the societal benefits of hockey, including its role in fostering community engagement, providing business opportunities, and promoting talent development. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the historical significance and ongoing impact of hockey in the UK.

Development of Sport –
The historical
development of Hockey
(Field) in the United
Kingdom

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................4
Historical development of Hockey.........................................................................................4
Governing body promoting Hockey.......................................................................................5
Media presents the sport.........................................................................................................5
Participations..........................................................................................................................6
Hockey Funded.......................................................................................................................6
Hockey benefiting society......................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References......................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Present essay is based on historical development of Hockey that took place in United
Kingdom. Including this, the particular government body that has been taken into consideration
is England Hockey formed in the initial month of 2003 and it was done to specifically replace the
English Hockey Association (EHA). Also, this essay will be focusing on some of the other
factors and these are: promotion done by England Hockey to enhance the community sport, how
media has presented hockey at national level, who has participated, how it has been funded and
how hockey benefitted the society. These will be the sections on which overall essay will be
focusing upon.
Main Body
Historical development of Hockey
4000 years ago, Hockey was first played in Egypt and in 1,000 BC it was first played in
Ethiopia. If it is talked about England Hockey which is governmental body of United Kingdom
that was formulated in January 2003 and it was done to replace English Hockey Association
(EHA).Basically, EHA suspended all the operations in the year of 2002 in light of huge
monetary issues. On the other side, EHA had thusly been framed in 1996 to consolidate the
capacity of the different overseeing bodies for men's, ladies' and collaborative hockey. Including
this, considering the end of the English Hockey Association, Worldwide hockey was for a period
overseen through a different constrained organization called World Class Hockey Limited, which
was financed completely by Sport England (History of Hockey, 2020).
Tasks were converged again in England Hockey in starting of July (2005). The second
level of hockey organization in England comprises of five territorial affiliations: Midlands, East,
West, North, and South and some of these were also connected with Britain Hockey which is
partnered to European Hockey Federation and International Hockey Federation. It runs various
rivalries, including the English Hockey League. While England Hockey is composed by different
range of bodies for every one of the home countries, the United Kingdom is required to enter a
joined group in the Olympics. This has made pressures between the overseeing bodies and those
answerable for the Great Britain groups. Anyway the ladies' group have been performing
admirably, winning a bronze at the Olympic Games in London 2012 and most as of late the gold
at the Olympic Games on Rio in 2016.

Governing body promoting Hockey
The organisation named National governing body which is a company limited by guarantee
Run for hockey in England and also the nominated country for the Great Britain. The England
hockey prominently became the National governing body in 2002 by taking over from
itspredecessor named English Hockey Association which is formed in 1996 in order to unite the
separate Men’s and women’s Association and need to suspend operations that are in 2002 due to
the importance of financial problems (Holt, Deal and Pankow, 2020). England Hockey is
affiliated by the European hockey Federation and international hockey Federation which is the
responsible for production of the rules of hockey that are followed worldwide by the players and
umpires in terms of participating in the game.
Along with this, there are various National governing bodies that are developed by the
frameworks in order to help sports sector to continuously enhance and evolve their expertise by
considering colleagues partners and stakeholders in order to enhance the pattern of sports and
also make things easier for them to access specialist services considering commercial Innovation
and program development. In regard of this knowledge hub is undertaken as the significant
platform which is used in order to share knowledge and significant practices in order to motivate
collaboration across National governing bodies and other professional entities in terms of
receiving core market funding (Holt and et. al., 2017).
Media presents the sport
Mass media depicts the significant interaction of communication that takes place at the
wind scale and also spreading territorial jurisdiction. In regard of spreading awareness media
plays an important role for the identification and promotion of knowledge in order to understand
the nation regarding the significance of sports in their life. In relation with this various media
channels and techniques including television radio internet newspaper and many more are
helpful in order to spreading awareness and information about hockey and describe its
importance in sport (Coakley and Holt, 2016).
In regard of this, television is the prominent medium as it allows live reporting that
transmits not only the sound but also the life images feelings and other factors by which viewers
can significantly capture things in their mind. Away with this since 1990 not only the television
but internet also helps in spreading information and awareness regarding hockey and also
transmit live pictures of sports events. Along with this the memory capacity for the personal

computers and Data transfer rates tends to set up significant limit for the hockey in terms of
broadcasting kit so far. Hence television still remains the significant medium for sports but
internet already offer prominent options for hockey fans (Baker and et. al., 2017).
Participations
In the undertaking sport which is hockey both male and female take participate as there are
various number of people playing hockey in England and take monthly participation since 2016.
The share of children playing hockey leads to decrease from 17.7 percent of 11 to 15 years old in
2013 to around 13.8% in 2016. Moreover between the age of 14 to 16 years old the ability and
experience level of players can vary greatly that depends on there playing and level of
experience (Coutinho, Mesquita and Fonseca, 2016). Along with this in Wales around 10% of
the males and 13.4% of the female participate in hockey from primary school but when looking
towards the secondary school the mail participation dropped at 6.8 % and female participation
increased by 20.1 percent.
Furthermore, playing hockey is the best way to learn its techniques and players need more
games that stimulate them technically physically and technically in order to promote and
measure their understanding for game. It also leads to enhance their perception and decision
making ability which is useful in order to learn and adapt thanks effectively for prominently
changing the situation of the game. In regard of this concerning topic tends to raise awareness
and develop curiosity among people in order to motivate people for playing hockey.
Hockey Funded
England hockey term receives funding from various sources including public and
commercial and for this the biggest funding partner for the sport England undertaking the
national lottery as both the sport England and UK sport help in order to distribute national lottery
funding within the hockey and other Sports and it directly comes from the people. Along with
this funding from The Sport England is useful in order to grow participation in hockey and
support grassroots initiatives which is useful in running the governing bodies. Despite from this,
funding from UK Sport leads to support the effective development and running of the
international teams events and programs.
In regard of this, the England Hockey is very lucky to have the significant support for the
National Hockey Foundation as it is undertaken as the grassroots hockey initiative and events
across the country (McCardle, Young and Baker, 2019). Furthermore the National Hockey

Foundation is the charitable trust that separate from the national governing body of hockey and
consider its role in order to motivate the prominent development and growth by offering
operational funding and capital for grant application and procedures.
Hockey benefiting society
In regard of this, hockey leads to offer significant opportunity in order to work with
Effective People who really want to make difference in society considering the perspective of
sport and leads to offer comprehensive rewards and benefits. In regard of this it become
beneficial for both society and businesses as it leads to develop clubs and memberships that
become an opportunity in order to share the success of National Hockey teams and provide
distinctive range of benefits considering the chance to meet Olympic hockey players and
enhance significant business opportunities and relationships in the social environment and
generate unique Public Relations opportunities (Holt, Deal and Smyth, 2016).
In terms of this, the club members please to open the door for the businesses and become
involved in hockey for the affordable way that offer them significant commercial outcomes. In
regard of this the great thing regarding the clubs is that it leads to support the grassroots for the
effective development and growth of hockey that tends to develop both talent for hockey and
achieve potential circumstances by considering the corporate social responsibility perspective.
Conclusion
By considering the above discussion it is analysed that hockey it is a very historic and traditional
sport that make historical records and prominently played in Egypt around 4000 years ago. After
that it become more popular in different countries with the help of media considering television
newspaper internet radio and many more that leads to offer various information and knowledge
about hockey and describe the significant policies off England hockey and also consider its
benefits and funding.

References
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Coutinho, P., Mesquita, I. and Fonseca, A.M., 2016. Talent development in sport: A critical
review of pathways to expert performance. International Journal of Sports Science &
Coaching, 11(2), pp.279-293.
Holt, N.L and et. al., 2017. A grounded theory of positive youth development through sport
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Holt, N.L., Deal, C.J. and Pankow, K., 2020. Positive youth development through
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Holt, N.L., Deal, C.J. and Smyth, C., 2016. Future directions for positive youth development
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McCardle, L., Young, B.W. and Baker, J., 2019. Self-regulated learning and expertise
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History of Hockey. 2020. [Online]. Available through:
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