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 Hockey Tournament Beneficiaries
Celebrating Our 27th Hockey Tournament
The Kingston General Hospital Foundation
The Kingston Area Boys and Girls Club
Since the beginning of the Kids for Kids Hockey Tournament, 27 years ago, there have been just two major beneficiaries. The Kingston General Hospital Pediatric Unit and the Greater Kingston Boys and Girls Club. Each has received more than $25,000.00 per year, which has helped local children so much.
Three years ago, the Kids for Kids committee got to see the latest contribution to the NEO NATAL unit in use… the GE VIVID IQ Altra Sound machine for the Kingston General Hospital. Kids for Kids was able to donate $100,000.00 to purchase this machine for our NEO NATAL Unit! Special thanks to the Kingston Health Sciences Pediatrics for bringing the need to our attention.
“KIDS for KIDS plans on contributing more in the near future to the pediatric wing of the Kingston Health Sciences centre” said Garry McColman, Chair of Kids for Kids. “Making a difference in our community is what drives all our volunteers to come back every year to make sure this hockey tournament is a success”.
The Kingston General Hospital is a “regional” centre for Pediatrics and receives children for all over Eastern Ontario as patients! With this our 27th tournament in 2025, we will once again give a gift of $25,000.00 to the University Kingston Hospital Foundation for the Pediatric Unit.
The Boys and Girls Club used its portion to pay its fair share of the capital costs to operate the Robert Meek Community Youth Centre in the beginning. Now, they have been operating their west end location in the Frontenac Mall and have expanded their ability to host young people in the Kingston area by 10 times! Once again this year we have promised a $30,000.00 contribution from our hockey tournament, our 14th annual golf tournament in July and our 14th annual Christmas luncheon in December!
In total, our Kids for Kids organization has contributed more than $ 1.5 Million dollars to our benefactors in our 25 year history. Unique to this hockey tournament is the expectation that each beneficiary would help to supply volunteers to run the tournament.
It takes a very dedicated team and 9 months of planning to make this tournament such a success; we are truly blessed to have such a team at Kids for Kids!
The other beneficiary to the Kids for Kids hockey tournament is the local Kingston economic community. With 180 teams coming into Kingston in 2025, we will bring over 2 million dollars into the community over 3 days! We will have an information desk in the lobby of the Invista Hockey Centre from Tourism Kingston for your convenience to answer any questions you might need for where to go and things to do while you are here!
So, enjoy your visit here in our historic, 352 year old city, KINGSTON. On behalf of all us on the Kids for Kids hockey tournament committee, enjoy your visit with us, we hope you take home some great memories….. come back real soon ya here!
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