review
What a season actually produced
Every number on this page comes from an invoice, a sign in sheet or a photograph. Where we do not know something, we say we do not know it.
in numbers
Every one of them free. No family paid anything, at any point, for any part of it.
Fitted in person on the first morning and kept. Not lent, not returned at the end.
Helmets, skates, sticks, gloves, pads, pants and jerseys. Nine items each, sixty campers.
Three at Leaside Arena and three at Ted Reeve Community Arena, across the year.
The executive is a student team. Nobody on it is paid, including the person who founded it.
We had sixty places. The gap between those two numbers is the whole reason we fundraise.
Where it went
We are small enough that you can see the whole of it. There is no overhead line here because there is no overhead. Nobody on the executive is paid.
| Item | Each | Number | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helmet with cage | $85 | 1 | $85 |
| Skates | $140 | 1 | $140 |
| Stick | $60 | 1 | $60 |
| Gloves | $55 | 1 | $55 |
| Shoulder pads | $45 | 1 | $45 |
| Elbow pads | $30 | 1 | $30 |
| Shin guards | $45 | 1 | $45 |
| Hockey pants | $55 | 1 | $55 |
| Jersey and socks | $35 | 1 | $35 |
| Equipment, after Hockey Stick Man | 1 | $380 | |
| Ice, and everything else the camp needs | $480 | 1 | $480 |
| Total | $860 |
That is one child on the ice for four days, with a full set of equipment that is theirs.
The list price above is what a family would pay in a shop, which is the number that keeps them out. It is not what we pay. Hockey Stick Man donates part of every set outright, and we buy the rest, which comes to $380 a child. Coaching is donated, so it costs nothing at all. The largest line is ice: between $300 and $450 an hour, three hours of it every day, which for a four day camp is $3,600 to $5,400 before a single child is fitted. All in, one camper costs $860.
placed
- 60Helmets
- 60Pairs of skates
- 60Sticks
- 60Pairs of gloves
- 60Shoulder pads
- 60Elbow pads
- 60Shin guards
- 60Hockey pants
- 60Jerseys
540 individual pieces of equipment have gone home with a child and have not come back. That is what $15,000+ looks like when you count it rather than round it.
What we could not do
The honest half of the report.
We received more than one hundred applications in our last cycle and we had sixty places. Forty children were told no. That is not a rounding error, it is the single number that decides whether we grow.
Forty of the sixty campers left with a complete set of equipment. The rest received the pieces they needed, which in most cases meant skates and a helmet, because those are the two things a child cannot borrow safely and cannot play without.
We do not yet track what happens to a camper twelve months later. We know some of them joined the Toronto Leaside Wildcats and some come back to Horizons on Saturdays, but we cannot put a number on it and we are not going to invent one. Building that follow up is the main thing we owe the next report.
The gap between one hundred applications and sixty places is the whole reason this page has a donate button on it.
money buys
Two hundred and fifty dollars buys a helmet, a stick, gloves and a jersey. That is a child walking in on the Monday with something of their own.
- Elbow pads$30
- A jersey and socks, theirs to keep$35
- Shoulder pads$45
- Shin guards$45
- Gloves$55
- Hockey pants$55
- A stick, cut to the child rather than to a shelf size$60
- A helmet with a cage, CSA certified and fitted in person$85
- Skates, the one thing they outgrow fastest$140
The nine items above come to $550 at the counter, which is what a family would pay in a shop. We pay $380, because Hockey Stick Man donates part of every set outright and we buy the rest. Coaching is donated, so it costs nothing. The largest line is ice: $300 to $450 an hour, 3 hours every day, which for a four day camp is $3,600 to $5,400 before a single child is fitted. All in, one camper costs $860. Ice and equipment are the two biggest lines in that figure, in that order. Every number here comes off an invoice, not an estimate.
What we are aiming at
One camp at a time, booked as far ahead as the money allows.
Summer Camp 2027
Four days at Leaside for up to thirty children, gear included.
That is 7 children already paid for, and 20 still waiting.