As discussed and agreed at the AGM (Annual General Meeting) on October 27th 2024, as a club we have the following mission and vision for 2025-2026:
Mission
Living in The Hague affords us the unique opportunity to promote and grow the sport of Pickleball.
Our mission is to provide a fun & welcoming Pickleball club for all ages, levels and nationalities.
Mission statement:
● we want to promote & grow Pickleball in Den Haag
● we want to be a fun & welcoming Pickleball club
● we want to be accessible for players of all levels, ages and nationalities
● we want to involve members in club activities (‘for the members and by the members’)
● we want a solid financial and organizational structure to guarantee continuity
We want to be “A fun sport club for everybody”
Vision for 2025-2026
- We organize indoor play at various days and times during the week, so that members can enjoy pickleball as much as possible
- We organize outdoor play in the summer period with as many play opportunities per week as possible, both during daytime and evening (weekdays and weekend)
- We organize both social play where all levels are mixed as well as level play where similar levels play together. This is communicated clearly
- We offer training and clinics for members to develop their pickleball play. This means that we invest in skill development by having our own club trainers who can train other club members every week. In addition, we organize clinics with external trainers
- We have proper internal communications to facilitate our growing club, for example via an email newsletter, our website and social media channels. Idea is also to split our ‘nice to know’ and ‘must read’ communication (channels)
- We are a financially healthy club. We have a steady income stream from club members and also by organizing our annual tournament The Hague Open. Also we generate some extra income via sponsorships, clinics and funds
- We have a solid organizational structure with a board and a future-proof structure of committee and volunteers in it. We are a club “for the members and by the members”. So not a profit-driven commercial operation
- We organize also social activities to strengthen the “club” feeling. We have an Activity Committee that organizes several fun events per year
- We grow and promote pickleball as a sport in general and our club Pickleball Den Haag in particular to grow the Dutch pickleball community. We participate in events like the Stadsspelen, organize clinics, use social media, etc.