Hockey is a small-ball sport best suited to artificial turf pitches, like you see the Hockeyroos and Kookaburras play so well on at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.

Most of our teams play on other clubs' pitches and also have to train on other clubs' pitches, which means money going outside our Local Government Area.

If we have our own turf then we can keep more money in-house and generate more income for the club, and more importantly it will raise the standard of hockey in our club which for other clubs has proven instrumental in attracting new members.

We would also be able to provide more facilities to other community groups in the City of Kalamunda including diversity sports, think wheelchair rugby for example.