Financial Assistance

Jumpstart, KidSport, and Sport Central play a vital role in reducing barriers to soccer participation by providing financial assistance and access to necessary equipment for children in need. These organizations help eliminate the cost-related obstacles that often prevent families from enrolling their children in sports.

By addressing both the financial and material barriers to participation, these programs make soccer more accessible to a broader range of young athletes, regardless of their economic background, fostering inclusion and promoting active lifestyles community involvement and teamwork.

Jumpstart

• Jumpstart helps kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for kids of all abilities.  Jumpstart is more than just about getting kids active. It's about giving kids from families in financial need the same chance to participate as their neighbours, their classmates and their friends. Whether it's the chance to try a new sport or to continue with a favourite one, no kid should be left out.

 KidSport - Edmonton

• KidSport supports children who need financial assistance with sport registration fees and equipment costs. KidSport believes that the power of sport participation promotes the development of children's social, mental and physical well being. Through increasing access to quality sport programs, KidSport strengthens communities across Canada.

Sport Central

• Empowering kids, one piece of sports equipment at a time.  Sport Central's primary goal is to retrieve, repair, recycle and redistribute sports equipment to kids aged 4-17 in families facing financial hardship.