Ice Derby
With 553 participants this year and the continued support of our sponsors we raised $17.153.22 and were able to present our charities The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba and Cancer Care Manitoba Foundation with each a cheque for $8576.61.
2021 brought us yet another challenge, this year was a Global Pandemic. With the safety of our volunteers and participants as our priority, we decided it was best to cancel our big Derby in Selkirk and move to a Virtual Derby. This allowed people from all of Manitoba to participate and fish on any body of water. With the purchase of a ticket online, each participant was entered into all of our draws whether they caught a fish or not.
Being Virtual brought us to 5 different communities in Manitoba. From St. Norbert and Selkirk on the Red River to Sandy Bar in Riverton, to Gimli and to Balsam Bay on Lake Winnipeg. We were available to drill holes and offer ice shelters to families who have never participated before. We handed out ice fishing rods to the kids that came and checked in with us and asked that participants send in pictures of being out enjoying time with family to enter into more draws.
Thank you to all our Volunteers and to all our sponsors for making this year a success even through a pandemic. Thank you to all participants for always making it “All About The Kids”
The Red River in Selkirk did not want to cooperate with us this year and left us with very unsafe jagged ice. We were forced to cancel our on Ice Derby. However, that would not stop us in raising funds for our charities so we decided to host a “Good Old Fashioned Manitoba Social”.
We sold 450 tickets and with a Live Band and huge prizes from our sponsors, we raised $50,500.00.
Thank you to all our volunteers who had to switch gears from ice fishing to social planning. Thanks to all our sponsors for their continued support and to all of you for attending.
We were privileged to present our charities The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba and Cancer Care Manitoba Foundation each with a cheque for $25,250.00.
Thank you all for making it “All About The Kids”
With all of the support this year, we raised $78,000.00 and were fortunate to present each of our charities The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba and Cancer Care Manitoba Foundation with a cheque of $39,000.00. This was our biggest year yet.
Today we welcomed 1988 participants and of those we had 728 kids attend. We had an amazing day on the ice with great weather.
Thank you to all for attending, to our sponsors for their continued support and to all our volunteers for your dedication. We had a lot of fun with the Mascots this year and the impromptu dance party was a big hit. Some of our sponsors had interactive games for the kids and random prize give away’s. Toques galore were flying.
Our most heartfelt thanks to all of you for making this possible and making it “All About The Kids”
We would like to thank the Association of Fundraising Professionals Manitoba Chapter for inviting us to the Manitoba Philanthropy Awards Luncheon.
It was an honor to be nominated by the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba and Cancer Care Manitoba Foundation and receive the “Outstanding Service Group Award”.
We truly have the best volunteers at over 100 people who make Kidfish the amazing group that we are.
Thank you for this Award.
