Clubs
Rain Couldn’t Stop the Fun On June 5, school buses arrived from BGCBigs Club locations across Edmonton, carrying excited members ready to celebrate Club Day 2026. While the weather had other plans and rain forced activities indoors, it didn’t take long for the energy of the day to fill the building. Members, families, volunteers, staff,…
Building Confidence Through Learning and Exploration At BGC Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area (BGCBigs), we believe that every young person deserves the chance to explore, grow, and discover their full potential, and through our partnered program, It All Starts with Me, young people get to do exactly that—receive access to hands-on opportunities…
Cooking Up Life Skills with Kid Food Nation and Chef Nation BGC Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area is thrilled to share the success of our Kid Food Nation (ages 8-12) and Chef Nation (ages 13+) programs! Thanks to the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, these programs have equipped our Club members…
Rose coloured T-shirts all around! And there you have it, another successful Pink Shirt Day in the books. We brought all of our Clubs together on February 28, 2024, to celebrate being fearless leaders. Pink Shirt Day is all about being a friend, being kind, being inclusive and being a leader in your community. We…
We’re incredibly thankful to Rogers Communications for the support they have provided to our Club programs over the past year. With the community grant they provided, we continue to provide kids with opportunities to connect with positive role models and peers, enjoy a healthy meal and explore our core program areas: arts and culture,…
Thank you to EPCOR for contributing $150,000 over the past 2 years to our McCauley Club Afterschool Programming and Rigorous Tutoring. Our McCauley Club provides a safe and fun place for kids to go after school and during the summer. Kids are provided with opportunities to connect with positive role models and peers, enjoy a…
This summer, our friends and partners, the Edmonton Public Library (EPL), delivered 1-hour STEAM-based programming (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) to our Club members during summer camps. EPL also provided ongoing reading opportunities for our Club members, delivering book collections to all 9 of our Club sites. Members participated and tracked their reading throughout…
We would like to express a huge Thank You to Canada Summer Jobs, REACH and the Realtors Community Foundation for supporting our Summer Programming this year. Thanks to their generous support, we were able to run eight different summer camp locations that operated each week from Monday through Friday and we employed twenty (20) Canada…
Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, visited us at our Riverdale office to announce a federal investment of more than $1 million for the green modernization of our McCauley and Kinsmen Community Clubs. An investment of $781,595 will enable BGCBigs to make energy-efficient upgrades to the McCauley Club,…
On July 6, 2023, our Summer Camp had an awesome opportunity to attend an Edmonton Riverhawks baseball game as part of Sports Week at the Club! We want to say a huge thank-you to the Riverhawks who gifted 135 youth tickets to our Kinsmen, Tweddle, Rundle, West and McCauley clubs—they had a BALL of a…