KidSport™ Tri Cities

KidSport™ was established by Sport BC in 1993 and is a community based sport charity. Since its inception in British Columbia, KidSport™ has grown to include national and provincial/territorial chapters operating across Canada. There are now more than 150 local community chapters that have raised in excess of $5 million dollars and provided a season of sport to more than 45,000 Canadian children in 65 different sports.

KidSport™ Tricities was formed in 2006 as Coquitlam KidSport™ and is one of approximately 20 chapters in B.C. We are a community chapter of KidSport™ BC, which is part of Sport BC, the provincial federation for sport. Through the very generous support of our sponsors, donors and the work of our highly motivated volunteers we have become one of the most successful KidSport™ chapters in BC.

The primary goal of all children’s sport programming is for each child to have fun and to want to play again next season. Children should feel there will always be a place for sport in their lives and that sport will always have a place for them. The KidSport™ Program has been created to help overcome financial obstacles preventing some young people from participating in organized sport.

KidSport™ Tricities identifies needs in the community, raises funds, and supports programs that create new opportunities for young people “So All Kids Can Play.”

Young people can learn more than athletic skills from sport. Sport provides a lifelong opportunity for self-expression and self-discovery. Sport challenges can teach children the value of leadership, desire, planning, practice, hard work, honesty, sacrifice, dedication, positive thinking and self-confidence. Sport emphasizes exercise, commitment, discipline, and conditioning, and can start children on the path to a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle begun at a young age can last a lifetime and benefit not only the child but the rest of the community.

Child poverty is on the rise making it difficult for many children to access sport. As well, Statistics Canada has recently reported an alarming decline in participation rates of organized sport in large part due to the cost. Ensuring that children have access to sport, and the values and skills that sport teaches, is more critical than ever.

KidSport™ helps provide children between the ages of five and eighteen access to sport opportunities and experiences in both team and individual sports “So All Kids Can Play.”

KidSport™ Tricities is a non-profit organization that is part of a national and provincial network of community based volunteer groups whose goal is to ensure that kids in financial need have access to the positive experience of sport and physical activity. We believe that sport and physical activity provides a life-long opportunity for self-expression, goal setting, dedication, positive thinking and increased self confidence for kids.

We achieve our mission by:

• Facilitating the acquisition of funds from existing and new community events that have the capacity to generate resources for KidSport Victoria;
• Developing partnerships with individuals, organizations and foundations whose philanthropic objectives match with those of KidSport Victoria
• Communicating the opportunity for physical activity and sport program funding for financially disadvantaged families;
• Demonstrating the value of gender equity in the allocation of resources and in the organizational structure.

Understandably, the protection of individual privacy is a primary concern of the contacts of KidSport™ Tricities. KidSport has created the following privacy statement in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to maintaining the privacy of all contact correspondence.
KidSport™ Tricities collects contact information from; its web site through its online forms, through paper applications forms for KidSport grants, volunteer application forms and event entry forms ONLY for the purposes of continuing future correspondence. All personal information collected is held in the strictest confidence; KidSport™ Tricities does not use this information for any other purpose other than that stated above, nor does it sell, rent or otherwise improperly disclose this information to outside parties.
If you have any questions about the privacy statement above or the practices and conduct of the KidSport™ Tricities in general, please don't hesitate to contact us.