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Friday, June 2, is BGC Club Day, a national awareness day celebrating the life-changing impact BGC Okanagan and Clubs in communities across Canada have on young people and their families. “We are more than after school programs. We are advocates for children and youth [...]
Registration is now open for the Acera Insurance (formerly Capri CMW Insurance) Golf 4 Kids events in Penticton, Vernon and Kelowna with the goal of raising $140,000 to support the life-changing programs BGC Okanagan offers to children, youth and families. “With the [...]
Fittingly, an act of kindness has kicked off the month of February for BGC Okanagan. An anonymous donor announced they will match up to $15,000 in donations to the BGC Okanagan Pink Shirt Day Breakfast fundraiser, presented by TELUS, that will take place in Kelowna [...]
BGC Okanagan – Lake Country Club was chosen as the first provider in that community to provide $10-a-day ChildCareBC spaces, as announced by the Government of BC on Jan. 31, 2023. The Lake Country Club will have a total of 68 spaces including; • 4 infant-toddler, • 16 [...]
BGC Okanagan’s celebration of kindness and lifting each other up at the annual Pink Shirt Day Breakfast presented by TELUS will return to an in-person event this year with activities held in Kelowna and a hybrid event in Penticton on Wednesday, Feb. 22. Retired NHL [...]
The 25th annual Tree of Hope campaign in support of the YMCA of Southern Interior and BGC Okanagan has reached their collective goal to raise $1 million . The Stober Foundation closed out the campaign with a gift of $500,000, matching the donations raised by the two [...]
BGC Okanagan, in partnership with Syilx Language House , unveiled signage to be placed at 12 Clubs across the Okanagan to engage and share knowledge of the traditional language of the Syilx Okanagan People. On Oct. 3, the Nsyilxcən Sign Project was unveiled at [...]
More families in the Okanagan will save thousands of dollars per year as more child care spaces in BGC Okanagan Clubs convert to the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program . “Quality child care is a necessity for families. Ten-dollar-a-day child care spaces will help ease [...]
KELOWNA – October 19th, 2022 – The Christmas Season is officially underway with the lighting of the Tree Of Hope (TOH) on November 25, 2022. This year’s lighting is special, as it marks 25 years of supporting local charities powered by the Stober Foundation and TD [...]
The Province of British Columbia, City of Vernon, and BGC Okanagan are proud to announce that families with young children in the Greater Vernon area will soon have access to more licensed child care spaces thanks to the construction of two new facilities. A [...]