Our partners

Eleven organizations pay for the ice, the equipment and the lunch, or give their time and their ice, so that no family ever pays anything. Twenty-two community organizations share our application with the families they serve. Open Ice exists because of them. Click any one to read their story.

Become a partner All 33 partners

Campers and student volunteers gathered on the ice listening to a coach

Our partners and sponsors

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

Leaside Hockey Association

Platform Insurance

TorontoToday

Pizza Pizza

Stronger Together Hockey

Toronto Leaside Wildcats

Community Referral Partnerswho share our application with the families they serve

All 33 partners, by tier

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Who backs this

Every organization behind Open Ice

Platinum Partners

Five thousand three hundred dollars and up per camp: five or more children's places, with named program recognition and year-round visibility.

MCW ConsultantsCanadian consulting engineers, founded 1964MCW is a Platinum Partner and one of the reasons our camps have ice. Platinum support pays for the ice and the equipment, which together are most of the $1,060 it costs to put one child through a camp.Their story

Platform InsuranceCanadian owned insurance and risk managementPlatform Insurance is a Platinum Partner. Their support goes into the two costs that never move: the ice and the equipment, which together are most of the $1,060 it costs to put one child through a camp.Their story

Rockland ResourcesCanadian mineral explorationRockland is a Platinum Partner. Their support goes straight into the two costs that never move: the ice and the equipment, which together are most of the $1,060 it costs to put one child through a camp.Their story

TorontoTodayToronto local news, and the outlet that covered us three timesTorontoToday is a Platinum Partner. They fund the program, which is what this page is about.Their story

HockeyStickManPro level hockey equipment, since 2010HockeyStickMan is a Platinum Partner and our equipment partner. They are the reason a camper walks out on the last day carrying a full set that belongs to them: helmet, skates, stick, gloves, pads.Their story

Pilot Sponsors

One thousand one hundred dollars per camp, or the equivalent in kind: one child's full place at camp, with equipment they keep.

Pizza PizzaCanadian, and founded in Toronto in 1967Pizza Pizza is a Pilot Sponsor and they feed the camp. Lunch every day, for every camper, at no cost to any family.Their story

PHPAThe Professional Hockey Players' AssociationThe PHPA is a Pilot Sponsor. They supply prizes and merchandise for our camps, which sounds minor until you watch the last hour of day four.Their story

Program Partners

Facilities, instruction and pathways. The partners who make each camp work and give a camper somewhere to go afterwards.

Upper Canada CollegeIndependent school in Toronto, founded 1829Upper Canada College is a Program Partner. They provide the facility and the program support behind Horizons, our Saturday sessions for camp alumni who want to keep playing.Their story

Stronger Together HockeySchool-connected youth empowerment, through hockeyStronger Together Hockey is a Program Partner. They shape the part of our camps that is about belonging rather than skating, which is the part parents write to us about afterwards.Their story

Leaside Hockey AssociationMinor hockey at Leaside Arena since 1952Leaside Hockey Association is a Program Partner, and Summer Camp 2026 ran on their ice at Leaside Arena.Their story

Toronto Leaside WildcatsOne of Ontario's largest girls and women's hockey associationsAlso a Community Referral PartnerThe Toronto Leaside Wildcats are a Program Partner. Girls come to every Open Ice camp.Their story

Community Referral Partners

Community organizations that share the Open Ice application, and a partner link of their own, with the families they serve, so that children who have never played hockey hear about a free place at camp. The Toronto Leaside Wildcats, a Program Partner, share it too.

Become a partner

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Levels priced in children's places. $1,060 puts one child through a camp with a full set of equipment they keep.

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Open Ice Initiative Inc. is an incorporated not-for-profit organization in Ontario, governed by a volunteer board of directors and accountable for every dollar it receives.

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.