What you need to know

Every Open Ice camp is free. There is nothing to pay, ever, and nothing to buy.

Our camps are for children aged five to ten.

Your child is given a full set of equipment to keep, fitted in person before they skate.

The next camp is Christmas Camp 2026, planned at four arenas across Toronto.

Your child does not need to know how to skate. Every child who joins Open Ice is new to hockey, and we teach skating from the very first step.

Bring your child, water and warm socks. We provide everything else, including lunch.

To apply, fill in the form on the Apply page, or send us an email. We reply to every family.

If English is difficult for you, write to us in your own language. We will find someone to translate.

Email openiceinitiative@gmail.com.

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Pilot Sponsor

Pizza Pizza

Canadian, and founded in Toronto in 1967

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Families waiting together in the arena lobby at the end of a camp day

Who they are

Pizza Pizza

Pizza Pizza opened its first location in Toronto in 1967 and has been part of the city's furniture ever since. If you grew up here you know the phone number.

There is something right about a Toronto company feeding Toronto children in a Toronto arena.

What they do for Open Ice

Pilot Sponsor

What Pizza Pizza does for Open Ice

Pizza Pizza is a Pilot Sponsor and they feed the camp. Lunch every day, for every camper, at no cost to any family. It sounds like the smallest line in the budget and it is not: for some of the children in our program, the meal in the middle of the day is a real part of why the week works.

What that looks like

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Parents and siblings watching from behind the glass

Campers lined up along the boards waiting their turn

A camper in a black cage helmet close to the camera

The full camp group with coaches and volunteers at the end of the week

Thank you

Thank you, Pizza Pizza

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

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Levels priced in children's places. Every level is the difference between a child playing and a child watching.

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