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Aspire to be Deadly: Transforming Behaviors Through Positive Youth Development in the sport of Hockey across 2025

Aspire to be Deadly is more than a sports program—it’s a movement that empowers young people to thrive. By leveraging the universal language of sport, Aspire creates safe, inclusive environments where youth build confidence, resilience, and life skills. Through structured mentorship and culturally grounded practices, the program shifts focus from risk to opportunity, guiding participants toward positive choices and healthy behaviours.

Sport becomes the catalyst for change: teamwork fosters belonging, goal-setting builds purpose, and achievement nurtures self-worth. Aspire’s approach aligns with Positive Youth Development principles—strengthening identity, promoting leadership, and connecting young people to community role models. This holistic model doesn’t just develop athletes; it develops future leaders who are proud, capable, and deadly in every sense of the word.

2025 Karumba Festival of Sport

Beyond Sport and New Balance Foundation are excited to announce our first Futures in Motion grant recipient! Australian community organization, Aspire Community will receive funding and capacity-building support over the next three years to enhance programs advancing youth wellbeing, education, inclusion and career pathways, as well as their own organizational sustainability.

Aspire Play Our Way strengthening across Northern Australia

After reviewing and confirming new and innovative recruitment strategy, ACCL partners came together and helped implement a new pathway from community introductory hockey programs to registration into Club competition. With over 100 participants registered into Hookin2Hockey, we combined the Getting Kids Places Transport Program supported through Astute Finance, After School facilities being available for Hookin2Hockey Programs, Community Support programs (Aspire Community Hub) including Indigenous Mentor Support Program and Empower Me program to assist and support community engagement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island young people, clubs and associations and together Aspire Community staff, partners and supporters made it happen. We have no

Aspire Community Participation Jan - March 2025

Aspire Cairns Community Limited (ACCL Aspire) to Partner with Hockey NT to Launch the Move Our Way Program, Expanding Access to Sport Across Northern Australia

In an exciting new collaboration, Aspire Cairns Community Limited (ACCL Aspire) has joined forces with local partners in Far North Qld, Hockey Northern Territory (Hockey NT), Harbrow Mentoring Australia, and Our Future Mentors to bring the Move Our Way Program to communities across Northern Australia. Supported by Play Our Way funding, this initiative is designed to make sporting activity more accessible, affordable, and inclusive for people in remote and Indigenous communities over the next three years, with a ACCL focus on expanding resources and support across identified regions of Far North Queensland.