Special opportunity for Local Sport Organizations to make an impact: 25 for 25

 

We are inviting local sport organizations to help us help more kids through “25 for 25”. 

 

KidSport Greater Victoria has a long history throughout the CRD of helping local kids living in financial need to access seasons of sport within many, many local sport organizations.  We are seeing an enormous rise in demand for our help – the result of ever-rising costs related to sport and especially to the overall financial strain so many local families are facing the last couple of years. 

 

We are hard at work to secure enough fundraising to continue to help every eligible child who comes to us for support – this year alone we anticipate we will distribute roughly $570,000 in season of sport registration grants (more than ever in our history) to support roughly 1500 local kids living in financial need. 

 

In honour of our organization’s 25th birthday in 2025, we launched an incredible fundraising opportunity in the first part of the year.  Thanks to very generous support from the Hugh Turner Memorial Fund, we had opportunity to double the impact of donations made by & through local sport organizations!  We are delighted to have maximized the $25,000 matching donation opportunity, in total raising just over $52,000 to support local KidSport-kids.  This initiative directly helped us to reach 140 more local children and teens living in financial need with access to a season of sport of their choice.  Thank you!

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While the matching campaign is over, donations are still welcome, and appreciated!  Should your organization / club be in a position to participate, please consider a few potential strategies:

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• Should your organization be in a position to make a donation now and/or in the months ahead, that can be made directly through the donation platform button below. 

• Also at that same donation platform, there is opportunity to opt to “join team”.  This option enables your club/organization to create a fundraising page specific to you, connected to the overall campaign.  That page link could then be shared with your membership to request they consider donating.  Funds received in this way will be credited to overall project total (and are tax receipt-eligible).

• If relevant to your organization, please consider asking your teams to donate leftover fundraising proceeds in this way.

• Please also consider opportunity to host an event or initiative within your club and direct funds raised to this project.

 

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(FYI, tax receipts will be issued electronically on eligible $20+ donations made through the site.)

 

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions.

 

Thank you for your consideration – and very special thanks to the Hugh Turner Memorial Fund for making this project possible, So ALL Kids Can Play!

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