As we approach this year’s holiday season, you’ve read how we’re also looking for the ways to be more inclusive and diverse. The holiday season in Canada definitely focuses primarily on Christmas. I love Christmas. It’s what I grew up with. Over the years, I’ve learned about other celebrations as well from some of my closest friends including…
Hello Everyone, One gift you’re going to receive from me as I write to you about what’s going on at BGC right now is this: I’m not talking about COVID-19 or the pandemic #yourewelcome. This is the time of year at BGC when we begin to prepare for the holidays with our kids, youth, participants, and…
Looking back, many of us will consider 2020 to be a year that we’ll be happy to see the end of. The global pandemic, and incidents and events calling our attention to the need to put an end to systemic racism and discrimination for once and for all have pushed us in ways we didn’t…
We’re following up on last week’s message, because we don’t want you to miss out on this amazing video, donated to us by Animism Studios, a local animation company who chose to channel their energy during the lock down into something amazing for the community… and more specifically, for BGC. Click here for the best…
For more than 80 years, BGC has been giving children and youth a place to belong during the critical out-of-school hours, where with the help and guidance of highly trained staff and volunteers, they discover who they are, that they matter, what they are capable of, and that they have promising futures. Serving more than…
Hello from an appropriate distance away! Here we are, a few weeks into changes in our world that none of us saw coming, or really even imagined. And, that means that most of us are having a hard time, in one way or many ways. Reminding ourselves that we’re all in this together can be comforting, but the…
If you’re reading this, then you know that at Boys and Girls Clubs, we believe that every kid is amazing. Not that they would be if they only had other opportunities, or if circumstances were different. That they just are. We’d be lying, though, if we pretended that they always show up that way. At BGC,…
Hi there, Maybe it was the Friday night (first time ever), or the change of season, or maybe it’s just that it was a room full of old and new friends of BGC, but the 2019 Club House Gala was our best yet. Perry Solkowski, Fred Lee, and Erica Sigurdson, our “A-Team”, brought their best……
It’s easy to think that learning, for kids, only happens in and around school, and that during the summer, kids turn their brains off entirely. But at Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BC (BGC), every single thing we do (whether in our Clubs in the city, or at beautiful Camp Potlatch) continues to…
At Camp Potlatch, our best kept secret is that, even though we’re “in the wilderness” every single interaction and activity is still designed to propel kids towards our 4 big life impacts: relationship skills, healthy living behaviours, a lifelong love of learning, and leadership skills. That they don’t know they’re learning is just fine with…