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Sports & Recreation

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There is interest from local sports and recreation organizations and facility user groups to work together to improve the opportunities for young athletes and coaches and, ultimately, create life long opportunities for activity. We have not been asked to participate in this but are available and eager to hear more about this idea.

Through attending AGMs and individual interviews, other sports groups in town continue struggle with sustainable volunteer capacity and Ryan Watmough has been available as a resource to help them find other models and organizations that may provide a collaborative solution.

Areas for collaboration:
  • Physical literacy
  • Athlete development
  • Coach development
  • Organizational development
  • Accounting systems
  • Registration
  • Facilities
  • Insurance
  • Marketing
  • Governance
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Events

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On May 22, 2013, Ryan Watmough was invited to present at the CBT-sponsored Canadian Sport 4 Life event at the Golden Civic Centre with keynote speaker, Dave Ellis. The short presentation, slotted in between Mark Baxendale & Jordan Petrovics talks, outlined the more general Community Coordination project and how local sports organizations could informally continue to work together and fit into the possible Community Team Models.

Over the duration of the project, we have met with Jordan Petrovics, Manager of Recreation at the Town of Golden, and look forward to exploring future opportunities to facilitate communication, cooperation, collaboration and consolidation where willing. We have also attended GKHAT and KHGC AGMs.

This summer, we are ready and willing to meet with local sports groups looking to improve communication, cooperation and collaboration to realize optimum outcomes for our athletes, coaches, parents, visitors and community.

Please let us know how we can help build community sports and recreation.

Issues & Opportunities

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Many groups and individuals would like to have access to top level sport & recreation facilities and programs. However, as always, the question remains, "who will pay for it?"

Some of the revenue can come from user fees/registration, but that rarely covers the cost of the facility or programming. Often individual user groups engage in fundraising initiatives to help reduce user fees or cover additional activity costs. Grants are available to many groups, but are not usually for ongoing facilities. Local government taxes (both from the Town of Golden and CSRD Area A) can be used to support public facilities upon resolution by local government. And school taxes support the public school's gyms and outdoor spaces. Joint Use Agreements between municipalities and school districts are just one way to maximize impact and share costs of facilities, but one does not exist in Golden.

Golden has a wide variety of sport infrastructure. This a list of the built physical assets available to the community or its sport-specific groups:

Golden Arena & Lounge
Golden Civic Centre
Golden Curling Club
Golden Freeride Park
Golden Green Gym
Golden Horseshoe Club
Golden Motorcross Track
Golden Municipal Airport
Golden Municipal Pool
Golden Pump Track
Golden Rodeo Grounds
Golden Tennis Courts
Keith King Memorial Park
Mt. 7 Rec Plex
Parson Community Hall
Parson Outdoor Hockey Rink

Alexander Park Elementary School Gym
Columbia Valley Elementary School Gym (closed)
Golden Secondary School Gym
Lady Grey Elementary School Gym
Nicholson Elementary School Gym

Golden Faith-Based Organizations' Activity Space
College of the Rockies - Golden Campus
Golden District Rod & Gun Club
Golden Golf Club
Golden Seniors Centre
Kicking Horse Gymnastics Club
Royal Canadian Legion Branch #122 Dance Hall & Banquet Room

Dogtooth Climbing Gym
Go Organics Disc Golf Course
Numerous private yoga, weight-training/cardio gyms and pools

Golden Cycling Club Trails (Mt. 7, Mountain Shadows, Moonraker)
Golden Nordic Ski Club Trails
Golden Rotary Club Trails
Golden Snowmobile Club Trails
Golden Snowmobile Trails Society Trails
Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (winter & summer trails)
Mt 7 Flying Club Take-Off

BC Parks & Rec Sites
Burges & James Gadsden Provincial Park
CSRD Parks
Town of Golden Parks

Resources

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Participants know how important their organization is to them. Sometimes it is difficult to communicate it's importance. The Golden Golf Club (GGC), Golden's largest sports organization, has successfully done that through a Socio-Economic Impact Analysis (SEIA), which can be found below. It followed the Golden Snowmobile Economic Impact Analysis Report and the BC Input-Output Model Report for Mountainbiking, which can be found under "Resources" on the Trails page.

Quite often, new ideas do not need to be invented. This is especially true in the sports and recreation area, where there are many resources available free of charge. Some of the best ones are listed below:
Leisure Information Network
Canada’s Physical Literacy Consensus Statement
Canadian Sport For Life

And the Golden Sport For Life (PowerPoint) presentation can be found below.

ggc_seia-mar82012.pdf
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File Type: pdf
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sport_for_life_intro_presentation.pptx
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Here are two examples of Sport for Life program analysis and strategy for the City of Abbotsford and City of Richmond, respectively.
psfv_-_city_of_abbotsford_recreation_analysis_copy.pdf
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richmond_sport_for_life_strategy__2010-2015_29737.pdf
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Here is the Interprovincial Sport and Recreation Council and Canadian Parks & Recreation Association's "Framework for Recreation in Canada 2015."
framework_for_recreation_in_canada_-_presentation_slide_deck_for_lin_v.2....ppt
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The Columbia Basin Trust has recently (Apr 9, 2015) created the PacificSport Columbia Basin Society. Columbia Basin Trust and ViaSport are providing $800,000 and $300,000 respectively toward this initiative over the next three years. With careful and collaborative planning, Golden & Area A could be well-positioned to increase their sports & recreation capacity, opportunities and outcomes through this program.

But the first step is communication - communication among sports & recreation groups for the betterment of all citizens of Golden & Area A.

Stakeholder Organizations

Columbia Valley Dog Club
Dogtooth Climbing Gym
Gentlemen's Leisure Club of Golden Society
Golden Active Transportation Committee
Golden Alpine Rippers Society
Golden Basketball Association
Golden Curling Club
Golden Cycling Club
Golden Dolphins Summer Swim Club Society
Golden Figure Skating Club
Golden Golf Club
Golden Gracie Garage Society
Golden Hap Ki Do Society
Golden Junior Hockey Society
Golden Kayak Club
Golden Kicking Horse Alpine Team Society
Golden Minor Baseball Association (?)
Golden Minor Hockey Association (?)
Golden Minor Soccer Association
Golden Nordic Ski Club Society
Golden Royal Canadian Army Cadets Sponsoring Committee
Golden Shotokan Karate Society
Golden Snowmobile Club
Impulse Dance Parents Association Society
Kicking Horse Gymnastics Club
Mount 7 Flying Club
Mt. 7 Recreation Complex Association
Rocky Mountain Cruisers Chapter
Special Olympics British Columbia - Golden
The Golden District Rod and Gun Club
The Golden Light Horse Club
A Golden Community Resources Society initiative.
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  • Phase 1: Exploration
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      • Recommendations
      • Next Steps for Phase 2
  • Phase 2: Coordination
    • Community Models >
      • Children
      • Youth
      • Seniors >
        • Age Friendly
        • AFC Committee
      • Arts, Culture & Heritage
      • Health & Social Services
      • Faith-Based Organizations
      • Sports & Recreation
      • Trails
      • Funders
    • BC Non Profit Labour Market Partnership
    • SFU CED Course
    • 2013 Events
  • Phase 3: Collaboration
    • Local Intelligence Gathering
    • SFU CED 2 in Golden
    • Non Profit Accounting Alignment
    • Community Team Prototyping
    • Other Community Models
    • Community Team Developmental Evaluation
    • Sustaining a Community Team
    • Lessons Learned
  • Non Profits
    • Community >
      • Engagement
      • Development
      • Guiding Documents
    • Development
    • Risk Management
    • Efficiencies >
      • Asset Management
      • Co-location
      • Shared Services
      • Communications
      • Consolidation
    • Collab >
      • Other Non Profits
      • Supporters & Funders
      • Government
      • Business
      • Researchers
    • Potential Non Profit Projects