So where does the money go?
2023-2024 Results
A huge shoutout to the Manitoba fishing community, and all our sponsors and supporters!
We all know someone who has been touched by cancer, including our own KidFish family. This years event had it’s challenges. Weather and ice conditions prevented us from being on the ice, however over 500 came out to the Selkirk Rec Centre in support of our ‘derby’. Through ticket sales and raffles KidFish was able to raise $38,000 for our charities!
KidFish is proud to present The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba and CancerCare Manitoba Foundation each with a cheque for $19,000.
Thank you to all our sponsors and supporters for helping to make this donation possible!
2022 – 2023 Results
We were so excited to be able to return to a traditional on ice derby event!
The volunteers hit the ground running and the event was announced to take place on February 19th, 2023. We had many sponsors step up to help make this event another great year.
This year we sold a total of 1,222 tickets with 408 of this being kid tickets! We estimate our attendance on ice of derby day was around 1250 (including volunteers, mascots & exhibitors).
Thank you to everyone that supported our event. With your help we were able to present cheques of $28,000 to Children’s Hospital of Manitoba and $28,000.00 to CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.
2021 – 2022 Results
With large events still up in the air at the start of our planning, the volunteer committee decided to repeat our virtual ice fishing derby from 2021 with hopes of a few more in person pop ups if restrictions allowed.
The virtual derby ran from February 5th to February 20th and was open to anyone in Manitoba.
February 5th and Feb 19th our volunteer crew met at the Float Plane Base in Selkirk to serve lunch, and hand out rods to our ticket holders that joined in our day on the ice. Feb 12th, due to some inclement weather we moved our pop up location from Riverton to Red River Cats in Lockport. All 3 days were a blast on the ice!
We were able to present cheques of $11,111.00 to Children’s Hospital of Manitoba and $11,111.00 to CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.
Thank you to everyone that supported our fundraising efforts, either with donations or by entering the derby. We couldn’t do this without all of you!
KidFish 2020-2021 Results
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.
Kidfish 2020-2021
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”
