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2011-12 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients Announced

December 5th, 2011

ProMOTION Plus and the BC Recreation and Parks Association are proud to announce the 2011 Girls Only (GO) Incentive Program grant recipients. GO was developed to provide sport opportunities for non-active girls and women in all regions of BC. With over 120 applications from across the province it was a challenge to narrow down the selection, however, funding of up to $2,500 was awarded to the following communities to increase the number of non-active girls and women in BC participating in sport:

  • Burnaby MoreSports Society, Burnaby | Burnaby MoreSports Handball
  • British Columbia Speed Skating Association, Prince George | Northern BC Speed Skating Strategy
  • kla-How-Eya Aboriginal Centre of SACS, Surrey | Mothers and Daughters Multisport Program
  • Red Fox Healthy Living Society, Vancouver | Red Fox Girls Junior Leaders Program
  • Regional District of Nanaimo Recreation and Parks, Nanaimo | Boxing Skills
  • Canim Lake Band, 100 Mile House | Down Hill Dames
  • Laxgalts' ap Village Government, Greenville | Laxgalts’ap Girls Afterschool Sports Program
  • PacificSport Okanagan, Okanagan | XploreSportz – Girls ROCK!
  • Port Alberni Friendship Center, Port Alberni | Roller Derby Brat Camp
  • City of Prince Rupert Recreation Department, Prince Rupert | Gym Dandies
  • Ditidaht First Nation, Port Alberni | Healthier Living
  • Special Olympics Burnaby Local, Burnaby | Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Youth Education Support – Guilford Park Location, Surrey | Hawaiian Kenpo and Self-Defence Classes
  • SAVES (Saranagati Vaisnava Education Society), Ashcroft | Girls Get Goals
  • Eastern District Cricket Club Society, Agassiz | Women’s Cricket Introduction and Development
  • Sister Shred Team, Kimberley | Nightly Shred Sessions
  • Slocan and Valley South Regional Parks and Recreation Commission, Regional District of Central Kootenay, Slocan Park | Inter-generational Women’s Snowshoe
  • Grand Forks Parks and Recreation, Grand Forks | Girls on the Go
  • Van Tech Community Schools Team, Vancouver | Girls on the Go!
  • British Columbia Wrestling Association, Vancouver | Fight Like a Girl – Female Wrestling

Congratulations to Everyone!

We would like to thank 2010 Legacies Now, the Government of British Columbia and the Government of Canada for their support through the BC Sport Participation program.

 

 


The Girls Only Incentive Program

 
The Girls Only Incentive Program is a partnership between ProMOTION Plus and the BC Recreation and Parks Association and is supported by 2010 Legacies Now and the Federal Government. The Girls Only Incentive Program grant was developed to provide opportunities to participate in sport for non-active girls and women of all ages in all regions of BC.
 
• The programs can be focussed on a single sport or designed to provide exposure to a multi-sport experience for girls and/or women
• Funding is available for new programs and enhancements for existing programs
• Funding is available to a maximum of $2,500 for one program
• An organization may apply for Girls Only Incentive Program grants for more than one program
 
Eligible Applicants:
• Municipal recreation departments in British Columbia
• Community associations which provides sport and/or recreation programs
• Not for profit societies and organizations which provide sport and/or recreation programs
 

Fall/ Winter 2011/ 2012 Grant Applications CLOSED
Girls Only Incentive Program Grants
 
Grant Applications are now CLOSED | Application Deadline Tuesday November 15, 2011, 4:30pm
 

 2010/11 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients Anounced
October 29th, 2010
 
ProMOTION Plus and the BCRPA are proud to announce the 2010 Girls Only Incentive Program grant recipients. GO was developed to provide sport opportunities for non-active girls and women in all regions of BC. With over 90 applications from across the province it was a challenge to narrow down the selection, however, funding of up to $2,500 was awarded to the following communities to increase the number of non-active girls and women in BC participating in sport:
 

• Gladwin Language Centre  (Girls Only Sports Experience)
• Visions 180 Community Programs - Grandview Elementary School  (The Artemis Girls Club)
• Strathcona Community Centre Association (Primary Girls Basketball Outreach and Development Camps)
• Cowichan Tribes (Kw'am Kw'um Tthun Shqwaluwum)
• The Gitksan Wet'suwet'en Education Society  (Gitxsan Girls Golf Club)
• City of Penticton Recreation Department (Girls Expanding Boundaries)
• Red Fox Recreation: Vancouver Native Health Society (Red Fox Active Girls)
• Nighthoops Basketball Society (Girls Basketball Program)
• Vancouver Girls Basketball Association  (HoopSkool Girls Leadership Basketball Program)
• Spirits of Burns Lake (Spirits of the Ice)
• Canim Lake Band  (Down Hill Dames)
• Omega Gymnastics Academy (Lunch Bunch Program)
• Castlegar Girls Softball (Winter Wonderball)

 
 
Congratulations to everyone!
 
We would like to thank the Province of British Columbia and the Government of Canada for their support of this program.


 2009/10 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients
 
 
MODEL - Building Individual Capacity in Girls (Hope)
Girls on the Move (Courtenay)
Girl Power! Judo Program (Pacific Sport Northern BC)
Tennis Clinics for Girls and Women of Salt Spring Island (Salt Spring)
Girls Sport & Social (Vancouver)
Gibsons Youth Centre Initiative (Sunshine Coast)        
Girls Only Running Club (Pender Harbour)
Women Rowing Independently Program (Creston)
Strathcona Girls Basketball Camps (winter and Spring)
XploreSportZ (PacSport Northern BC, Prince George) 
 
 

2008/09 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients
  
Get Active! Girls (Penticton Community Centre)
Girls Badminton Clubs (Killarney Community Schools Team, Vancouver)         
Girls - Go Figure! (Victoria Figure Skating Club)
Lacrosse & Canoeing (Canim Lake Band) 
Strathcona Summer Basketball Out-Reach for Girls (Strathcona Community Centre, Vancouver)
Spirits of Burns Lake Girls Hockey (Burns Lake)
The Power to Play (Burnaby New Westminster Ringette Association)      
The Great Outdoors Girls (The Eagle Valley Sports and Leisure Association, Sicamous)
Tuff Girls Sports (District of Tofino)
 
 

 Winter 2008 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients
January 21st, 2008

Strathcona Basketball Out-Reach for Girls (Strathcona Community Centre, Vancouver)
Girls Sport Night (Town of Smithers Recreation, Parks and Culture, Smithers)
Girls on the Go (Coquitlam School Board, Coquitlam)
Girls on the Move (Cowichan Valley Regional District, Duncan)
Girls in the Groove & Girls Can Curl (Eagle Valley Sports & Leisure Association, Sicamous)
Down Hill Girls (Canim Lake Band, 100 Mile House)
Girls Badminton Clubs (Vancouver School Board, Vancouver)
Elders Winter Keep Fit (Chawathil First Nation, Hope) 
 
 

Girls in Motion, Prince Rupert

 

The Jim Ciccone Civic Centre in Prince Rupert wrapped up their second season of Girls in Motion this past spring. Girls in Motion, a multi-sport program designed to introduce inactive girls to a wide variety of sports and activities received funding through the Girls Only Incentive Program in 2005/06. The program was a huge success and the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre decided to continue on with it through spring 2007. Congratulations to Pat Holkestad and the Centre for their commitment to programming for girls!
 
2006/07 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients

 

Girls On the Go (Salmon Arm)
Girls Only Sports Program (Prince George)
Girls Get Movin’ (Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs)
Go Girlz (City of Courtenay)
Just for Girls (Sunshine Coast)
Girls Badminton Club (Killarney Community Schools Team)
Hey Girlfriend! (Richmond City Centre Community Association)
Strathcona Girls Sport Camp (Strathcona Community Centre)
BC Rugby Union
FitForSport (Karate BC)
City Girls (Gitwinksihlkw Athletic Club)
Girls On the Move (Cowichan Regional District)
Ladies City League (Wheelchair Basketball) 
  

  2005/06 Girls Only Incentive Program Recipients
Dec 5th, 2005 

District of Kitimat Recreation Department 
Sunshine Coast Regional District Parks and Recreation Department 
Richmond City Centre Community Association 
Esquimalt Parks and Recreation, Victoria 
Pemberton Canoe Association 
100 Mile Junior Secondary School, 100 Mile House 
Jim Ciccone Civic Centre, Prince Rupert 
Nuxalk Nation Health & Wellness, Bella Coola 
Fairfield Community Association, Victoria
 
Strathcona Community Centre, Vancouver
City of Abbotsford
 

 
 

2004/05 Girls Only Program Recipients:

Kitsilano Community Centre  “She Plays” 
BC Rugby Union “A Little Taste of Rugby” 
YWCA (Health and Wellness Centre and Crabtree Corner)  “Sundays with Mom”
Karate BC “Fit for Sport”
MoreSports “Girls and Leadership”

 
 
 
 
 We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia
                          
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