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Keep Your Gear

Every camper leaves with a full set of equipment that is theirs permanently. It is the part of the model that lets a child keep playing after the camp ends.

A loaner program gets a child through a week. A gear set they own gets them through a season.

A full set costs $750 per camper, all in, bought through our equipment partner HockeyStickMan. That is most of the $1,060 it takes to put one child through a camp, and it is the line sponsors are asked to cover first.

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Student volunteers handing out equipment bags to campers at the boards

The set

What a set includes

Skates, fitted on site
Helmet with a cage
Shoulder pads, elbow pads and gloves
Shin pads and hockey pants
A stick sized to the camper
A bag to carry it in

Fitting

Sizing is done before the camp using guides we built with visuals and translated language, for families who may be unfamiliar with hockey equipment terminology. Final fitting happens at a separate session before camp starts.

On the bench

Getting kitted out before a session

Getting kitted out on the bench before a session.

Every piece is fitted to the child in front of us, and every piece goes home with them on the last day.

The bag, unpacked

Everything a camper carries out on the last day

Photographed one piece at a time, and every item of it theirs to keep.

Helmet with cageCSA certified, fitted before the first skate
SkatesThe one thing they outgrow fastest
StickCut to the child, not to a shelf size
Gloves
Shin guards
Hockey pants
Jersey and socksTheirs to keep

Shoulder pads and elbow pads are in every set too. A full set is $750, all in, and every piece of it is the child’s to keep, with a bag to carry it in.

What has gone home so far

The running total. Cumulative, across every camp we have run. None of it comes back.

41Helmets

39Pairs of skates

44Sticks

40Pairs of gloves

38Shoulder pads

38Elbow pads

40Shin pads

37Hockey pants

60Jerseys

39Bags

40Pairs of foot socks

40Pairs of shin pad socks

40Base layers

40Water bottles

576

individual pieces of equipment have gone home with a child and have not come back. Fourteen line items, counted one at a time rather than rounded to a dollar figure.

What families say

A crowd of helmeted campers waiting at the boards for their gear

Going into the March break camp, my boys could barely stand on their skates alone. They learned so much about hockey in one week. Everything was provided including the hockey gear which the boys got to keep. All they want to do is hockey now.
Jessica SerpaParent, March Break Camp 2026, Google review

A volunteer fitting a helmet onto a camper at the boards

This experience would have cost our family well over $1,500 to $2,000 to provide on our own.
Mariam TesfayeParent, Google review

A camper in a green jersey and white helmet grinning on the ice

It was his first time playing hockey, and we were so impressed by how much he learned in just five days. By the end of the week, he was already saying he wants to become a coach one day.
Lin ZParent, Google review