Our Goal...
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.

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

Our Belief...
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.

Our Challenge...

Child poverty is on the rise making it difficult for many children to access sport. According to statistics gathered by the Victoria Foundation* in 2005, 17.5 % of the population of the Capital Regional District was 17 years of age or younger and 29.5% of families with children are single parents. It is estimated that over 12,000 children, one in five children, in Greater Victoria live on or below the poverty level. Ensuring that children have access to sport, and the values and skills that sport teaches, is more critical than ever.

Our Aim...
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.”

Our Mission...

KidSport Victoria 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.

Our Privacy Statement...

Understandably, the protection of individual privacy is a primary concern of the contacts of KidSport Greater Victoria. KidSport has created the following privacy statement in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to maintaining the privacy of all contact correspondence.