JYRH offers year-round participation with 3 competition seasons each preceded by training clinics. Our home court is the Skate Station in Mandarin.
Children ages 5-15 are eligible, and teams are blended to ensure there is an equitable balance of skills and experience among them. JYRH provides an environment of good will competition and mentorship among the team members.
We lend equipment to kids who are trying hockey for the first time. Hockey is not a cheap sport by any means. We offer clinics at the beginning of each season for kids to come out and try hockey or even just to learn how to skate for the first time. We don't expect parents to spend several hundred dollars on new gear without knowing if their kid will even like the sport.
So to help out, we have what we call the gear closet. It has some very old and much worn-out gear that we loan to the kids during clinics. During that time, if the kid wants to sign up and play, the parents then go buy new gear. But it doesn't always come in before the first game or even second game, so the kids still use our borrowed gear. The issue with the borrowed gear as I said before, it's old and worn, but also, we don't have much left or hardly any matching sets.
Therefore, we would like to purchase varius sizes of new gear sets to be available for these new kids to use.
Our next priority is to make roller hockey a sport that is accessible to families who might not be able to afford it.
Our goal is to create a scholarship program that will help kids who need assistance with registration fees. Current registration fee is $170 a season per kid, and we would like to offer 3-5 scholarships per season. That price alone can steer some parents and kids away from joining the league, much less the cost of all the new gear they would need.
We want to help a few parents that could use some help financially by paying for the registration to allow their kids to join us. The more funds we have though, the more kids we can help.
We would also like to be able to subsidize the cost of purchasing a team jersey for those families who are unable to buy one.
Lastly, as our list of donors and contributors grow, our funds continue to increase, we would start helping our kids join our travel hockey team. Skate Station has youth travel roller hockey team called the Jacksonville Citrus Kings. Travel teams offer unique opportunities for the kids to bond, develop, experience new venues, improve their skills, and offer visibility into college scholarship programs. We travel all over Florida and into Georgia all year long so you can imagine the expenses that add up. The contributions from the Non-Profit could go towards the team registration fees for these tournaments or even toward new uniforms.
Austin Memorial Hockey Foundation
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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