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Everything you need, in the order you will ask
One page. What we do, who we reach, what it costs, what you get, and how to say yes. If you would rather have a conversation, the contact is at the bottom.
Open Ice Initiative Inc. is an incorporated not-for-profit organization in Ontario, overseen by a volunteer board of directors and run by a twenty member Headquarters Team. Every child who joins Open Ice has never played hockey before. We give them a full camp of professional coaching on real ice and send them home with a full set of equipment they keep. Christmas Camp 2026 is planned at four Toronto rinks, and Open Ice is expanding across Ontario. Families pay nothing, ever. One thousand and sixty dollars covers one child completely.
Made possible by
Thank you to our Platinum Partners, MCW Consultants, Platform Insurance, Rockland Resources, TorontoToday and HockeyStickMan; to our Pilot Sponsors, Pizza Pizza and the PHPA; and to our program partners, Upper Canada College, Stronger Together Hockey, the Leaside Hockey Association and the Toronto Leaside Wildcats; and to the twenty-two Community Referral Partners who share our application with the families they serve. Every hour of ice, every set of equipment and every lunch at an Open Ice camp is theirs as much as ours.
Our partners and sponsors
Community Referral Partnerswho share our application with the families they serve
What a partner page looks like
What we offer
Not a logo in a row. Every partner gets a real page: who they are, what they do for us, photographs of that contribution in use, a link to their site, and a thank you note that is theirs alone.
Every level is a number of children on the ice. A place costs $1,060, all in, including the equipment the child keeps.
The levels
Priced in children's places
Every level is a number of children on the ice. A place costs $1,060, all in, including the equipment the child keeps.
Pilot Sponsor
One child's full place at camp, with equipment they keep.
- Logo on participant materials
- On-ice photo sessions with campers
- Named session recognition
Camp Sponsor
Three children's places, plus a full day of camp in your name.
- Everything in Pilot Sponsor
- A Named Day at Camp in your honour
- Your brand featured across the whole day
- Logo and backlink on open-ice.org
Platinum Partner
Five or more children's places, named program recognition and year-round visibility.
- Everything in Camp Sponsor
- Named Program recognition
- Custom CSR and DEI engagement
- Year-round presence, digital and on-site
- VIP Keep Your Gear graduation invites
- Social, newsletter and report features
Arena Partner
Every place at one rink for one camp, presented in your name.
- Everything in Platinum Partner
- "Open Ice at [arena], presented by [you]"
- Rink recognition where the arena allows it
- Named in the camp announcement
To give at a level not listed here, write to us and we will build it around what you want to fund.
The reach
The results
What your name sits next to
Covered by CP24, CTV News, Beach Metro News and TorontoToday. Media day is day one of every camp, which is why coverage keeps happening rather than happening once.
The problem
It is the cost, and only the cost
More than one hundred families have applied. Every place we have been able to pay for has been filled.
Families are ready and children want to play. Every application is ranked against a written, needs-based selection system rather than first come first served, so every funded place goes to a child facing real barriers. The one thing that decides how many children skate at each camp is how much ice and equipment our sponsors and donors fund.
Every $1,060 is one more place.
The money
Exactly what it buys
| 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.
Partner campaigns
What each partner does for Open Ice
Hear what our partners have to say
And what we say back: every partner page carries a thank-you note of its own.
Some students may play hockey. Some may never play hockey. Some may connect through teamwork, leadership, volunteering, tabletop hockey, storytelling, or cheering others on. The message is that there is room for everyone to be part of the team.
Mario BellissimoCo-Founder and Executive Director, Stronger Together Hockey
Thank you. Not as a formality. Every hour of ice at a Toronto rink has a price, and every set of equipment a camper carries home has a price, and somebody pays both of those before a single child steps onto the ice. You did. There are children who have now played hockey who would not have, and there is no version of that sentence that does not have your name in it.
Andrew AdairFounder and President, Open Ice Initiative, in the thank-you note to our Platinum Partners
Thank you. A pilot sponsor backs something before it has a track record, which is a harder thing to do than backing something that already works. You did it when we were a pilot and a borrowed hour of ice. We have not forgotten which order that happened in.
Andrew AdairFounder and President, Open Ice Initiative, in the thank-you note to our Pilot Sponsors
Thank you. Money buys ice and gear. It does not buy a rink that says yes, a coach who knows what to do with a child who has never skated, or somewhere for that child to keep playing in September. You gave us those, and those are the parts that turn a good week into a way in.
Andrew AdairFounder and President, Open Ice Initiative, in the thank-you note to our Program Partners
Who you are partnering with
Answered before you ask
Who are we, legally?
Open Ice Initiative Inc. is an incorporated not-for-profit organization in Ontario, incorporated under the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010, governed by a volunteer board of directors and accountable for every dollar it receives.
How can a company record its support?
Because corporate support delivers logo placement, named program rights and media association, it can typically be recorded as a marketing or advertising expense. Please confirm the treatment with your finance team. This is not tax advice.
Connect with us
One email, and we will do the rest
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and which camp cycle. We will come back with a written proposal inside two days.
Prefer to talk it through? Write to openiceinitiative@gmail.com and Andrew Adair, Founder and President, will set up a call.