Season Highlights

Other select highlights from the 2024-25 season (in no particular order):

To celebrate 130 years of HWHC, the club commissioned a limited edition track jacket.

To celebrate 40 years of HWHC Ladies, the club celebrated with players past and present at Chapel Bar, Islington to recognise the enormous contribution the Ladies section has and continues to make both on and off the pitch.

The club appointed three new Vice Presidents: Kat (Katherine) Baker and Hayley Turner, joint captains of the Ladies 1s, and Annebeth Wijtenburg (Smith), who played a large part in securing Women's EHL Premier Division hockey for the club.

The club established an award for umpiring (the Cowley Cup - awarded to the person who makes the greatest contribution to umpiring during the season), in memory of the late Nick Cowley who sadly passed away on 17 October 2024 - Nick was one of HWHC's finest.

The new scoreboard was inaugurated at Paddington Recreation Ground by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Mr Robert Rigby, recognising the donation for its acquisition by Morley Pecker, who also celebrated his 70 years since becoming a member of the club.

The Ladies 1s won the EuroHockey Club Trophy 2025 in Rakovnik, Czech Republic. This was the club's first major European trophy, and followed on from a Bronze Medal winning performance in the EuroHockey Club Trophy 2023.

The Ladies 1s finished first in the Premier Division regular season.

The Ladies 1s qualified for the EuroHockey Club Trophy in 2026.

The Men's 1s won the Y1 Indoor event, beating Wimbledon 3-2 in the final.

The U18 Boys won the National Tier 1 Cup competition.

The U14 Boy won the National Tier 2 Plate competition.

The club's senior international coaches and players continued to coach and run Junior, Talent Academy and Senior sessions and matches: Kiran Arunasalam (Australia), Caoimhe Byrne (Ireland), Iona Campbell (England), Tim Cross (Ireland), Ted Graves (England), Matt Guise-Brown (South Africa), Olivia Hamilton (Great Britain & England), Holly Hunt (Great Britain & England), Dale Hutchinson (Wales), Hywell Jones (Wales), Kei Kaeppeler (Wales), James Oates (Great Britain & England), Miriam Pritchard (Great Britain & England), Madi Ratcliffe (Australia), Toby Reynolds-Cotterill (Great Britain & Wales), Rupert Shipperley (Great Britain & Wales), and Nicola White (Great Britain & England).

HWHC maintained England Hockey Talent Centre accreditation in 2025, recognising the quality of the club's talent development environment and provision within the club's junior programme.

HWHC's Talent Academy license was re-awarded for a further three year term. HWHC is one of 24 clubs around the country to have been appointed as a Junior Talent Academy. A Talent Academy aims to develop high performance players in the U15-18 age group to help prepare them for the demands of junior international hockey: 25 boys and 25 girls, selected from a catchment area covering central and north London.

Junior Tour to the Netherlands: in August 2024, two U14 teams travelled to the Netherlands for a long-weekend to play at three Dutch clubs: HC Oranje Rood, HC AMVJ and HC Den Bosch.

Talent Academy Tour to The Hague: in April 2025, the Talent Academy Boys & Girls entered tournaments hosted by HDM in The Hague.

The U16-U17 Boys welcomed HC Klein Zwitserland to Paddington Recreation Ground for a Sunday fixture, followed by bangers & chips in The Carton's pub garden.

25% of HWHC U13s - U18s reached County level and above during the season.

The club managed six teams for the London Youth Games, representing Westminster, Camden and Kensington & Chelsea.

The Senior Performance Coaches continued to select players from the Junior club to play EHL National League hockey (Premier Division (Men's & Ladies 1s) and Conference East (Men's & Ladies 2s)).

At 15 years of age, Jake Glew became the youngest HWHC men’s player to take part in the EHL Premier Division, and the youngest to score a goal in the Premier Division.

At the 41st annual awards lunch, Jake Glew won the Hockey Writers' Club U16 Boys Player of the Year award.

The club had another successful year on the international hockey stage, with many junior, senior and masters members representing England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Great Britain, South Africa, U.S.A., Australia and New Zealand at junior (U16 & U18), age-group (U21), senior and masters (O40, O45, O50, O55, O60 & O70) levels.

Ted Graves, Men's 1s player and U16 Boys Coach, was part of the Gold Medal winning Great Britain U21s team, beating Australia in the final of the Sultan of Johor Cup in Malaysia.

The club's talented Goalkeeper & Great Britain star Miriam Pritchard ('Pritchard's Pencils') - designed the 40 years of HWHC Ladies Invitation, and HWHC Christmas Cards - the sales proceeds from the cards helped the Ladies 1s raise funds to compete in the EuroHockey Club Trophy in Rakovnik, Czech Republic.

Eight Ladies 1s squad members and their coach, Dave Cooper, run 1,116 km, the distance between Maida Vale and Rakovník, as a fund raising exercise for the Ladies 1s trip to the EuroHockey Club Trophy in Rakovnik, Czech Republic.

The club announced new sponsor and partnerships with Mountview Capital and Wolfpack Bars.

The club announced new 1894 Network partnerships with Athlete Origin and The Portfolio Group.

The club announced on-going partnerships with Willow Tree Dental, Hawkinsport and Adidas.

The club held its Annual Fundraising Dinner at Balls Brothers in the City of London in February, and successfully raised in excess of £25,000 - thank you for the combined generosity of those who donated auction and raffle prizes, and those who attended the dinner. Annual Fundraising Dinner Auction & Raffle Prizes

12 individuals and families became 1894 Club Members during the 2024-25 Season, generously donating in aggregate c.£96,000 which with gift aid claimed by the club raised a total of c.£118,000.

A further c.£10,000 was raised for the club via generous donors and donations, Benevity, employer matched funding, JustGiving, and EasyFundraising.