Field Hockey Canada receives 76,000 to support new ‘Stick Together’ Initiative
News release [from Canada Heritage]
VICTORIA, August 30, 2022
The Government of Canada is committed to building stronger, healthier communities across the country. The transformative power of sport plays an important role in achieving this goal. Sport builds self-esteem and leadership skills and allows people to grow and thrive—physically, emotionally and socially.
To support organized sport at the community level, Adam van Koeverden, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and to the Minister of Sport, announced today that Field Hockey Canada, as a national-level organization, will receive $76,470 in funding in 2022–23 from the Community Sport for All Initiative. He made this announcement on behalf of the Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Sport and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
Field Hockey Canada will launch an open process for its project “Stick Together” in the fall. Community organizations across Canada can apply for funding to offer field hockey to those who otherwise may not have the opportunity to take part in this sport.
“Field Hockey Canada believes in the power of sport to help drive positive social change. We believe that the contribution sport can make to social capability, health and well being is just as important as Olympic medals,” CEO Susan Ahrens said. “With this funding, Field Hockey Canada’s ‘Stick Together’ initiative builds on our collaborative community building of recent years to ensure we remove barriers to participation and increase accessibility, diversity, equality and inclusion within field hockey.”
ParticipACTION, Canadian Women & Sport, Rowing Canada Aviron, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities and KidSport Canada were the first five national-level funding recipients announced under the Community Sport for All Initiative. More opportunities for community-based groups to apply for funding will come soon as the remaining national-level recipients will be announced later this summer. The role of the national-level recipients is to redistribute funding to community-based groups.
As announced in Budget 2021, up to $80 million over two years will be distributed across the country. The investment will help kick-start accessible local organized sports and remove barriers to participation in sport programming.
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Field Hockey Canada is focused on working with partners, members and participants in all regions, at all levels. The ‘Stick Together‘ project builds on community building of past couple of years and our Team of Teams approach. We are one nation, one community. This project is about diversity, equity and inclusion, it is about removing barriers to participation and working in partnership with those on the ground to fully drive change through and with those with a lived experience. Field Hockey Canada believes passionately about this which is why we applied for this funding. More information about how to access the ‘Stick Together’ grant funding will be posted on our website shortly.
