Season in Review
What a season actually produced. Every number on this page is on our numbers page, with how we got it and how sure we are.
No family has paid anything, at any point, for any part of it. Not for ice, not for coaching, not for the equipment they took home.
576pieces of equipmentHelmets, skates, sticks, gloves, pads, pants, jerseys, bags, socks, base layers and water bottles. Fourteen line items, counted one at a time.
$18,000est.of equipment at retailWhat the same equipment would have cost a family at entry level retail. It is the value delivered rather than what we paid, because much of it was donated.
1,620est.hours of programmingChild-hours of free ice, dryland and coaching delivered. How it was counted and confirmed is on the numbers page.
1,670est.hours of volunteer serviceHours given by volunteers, the Headquarters Team and the founder, including planning. Time given, not hours a child received. The method is on the numbers page.
20member Headquarters TeamStudents who, with the founder and an adult administration team overseen by the board, keep every chapter to the Open Ice standard and run the flagship camps in Toronto. Nobody on it is paid, including the founder.
100+applications receivedFunding is the constraint, not demand. Every place we can pay for gets filled.
Where it went
Here is the whole of it. There is no overhead line here because there is no overhead. Nobody on the Headquarters Team is paid.
| Item | Each | Number | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full set of equipment, all in | $750 | 1 | $750 |
| Everything else: ice, lunch, insurance and admin | $310 | 1 | $310 |
| Total | $1,060 |
That is one child through a full camp, with a full set of equipment that is theirs.
A full set, all in, with the bag, socks, base layer and tax, comes to $750 a child, and that is what the child keeps. Coaching is donated, so it costs nothing at all. The other large line is ice: between $150 and $380 an hour at the arenas we have used, three hours of it every day, which for a four day camp is $1,800 to $4,560. All in, one camper costs $1,060. We will publish the line by line breakdown before Christmas Camp 2026.
Every piece that went home Fourteen line items
- 1.Jerseys60
- 2.Sticks44
- 3.Helmets41
- T4.Pairs of gloves40
- T4.Shin pads40
- T4.Pairs of foot socks40
- T4.Pairs of shin pad socks40
The rest of the count Counted, not rounded
- T4.Base layers40
- T4.Water bottles40
- T10.Pairs of skates39
- T10.Bags39
- T12.Shoulder pads38
- T12.Elbow pads38
- 14.Hockey pants37
What a gift does
Move it, or type an amount, and see what it pays for. Every dollar goes toward a set of equipment a child keeps.
$250 is about a third of one child's full set of equipment, which is $750 all in. Every dollar goes toward a set of equipment a child keeps.
- A full set of equipment, all in, theirs to keep$750
- One child through one full camp, all in$1,060
A full set of equipment, all in, is $750: skates, a helmet with a cage, gloves, shoulder and elbow pads, shin guards, pants, a stick, a jersey, socks, a base layer and a bag, and every piece is the child's to keep. Coaching is donated, so it costs nothing. The other large line is ice: $150 to $380 an hour at the arenas we have used, 3 hours every day, which for a four day camp is $1,800 to $4,560. All in, one camper costs $1,060, including the equipment they keep. Every number here is on our numbers page, with how we got it and how sure we are.
This season
Hours and people
What a place costs
Next season
What we are building next
More places, more rinks, and a path that keeps every camper playing.
More than one hundred families have applied and every place we could fund was filled. Every new sponsor and donor turns directly into more children on the ice, which is why Christmas Camp 2026 is planned at four arenas across Toronto.
Every camper left with what they needed to play. Many took home a complete set of equipment; returning campers were topped up with the pieces they had outgrown or still needed.
Camp alumni can keep skating at our Horizons Saturday sessions, and we connect families with local associations such as the Leaside Hockey Association and the Toronto Leaside Wildcats. Next, we are building long-term follow-up so every report can show how our campers keep playing.
The aim
What we are aiming at
One camp at a time, booked as far ahead as the money allows.