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The following information was provided late - we had already published.
Apologies
Find all info about the conference in the link provided below.
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Linked: MCA/CCI Conference
Save the date for annual MCA/CCI Conference: Linked
April 9-11, 2019
Camp Arnes
For ALL our camps in Manitoba/NWO. Please make time to attend and experience learning together with other camp professionals. If you cannot be there the entire time, consider being there for April 10 – the day with the workshops.
https://winklerbiblecamp.wixsite.com/linked2019
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MCA AGM
Save the Date
Thursday March 21, 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Calvary Temple, room 200
Includes lunch
Please RSVP by to Kim kimscherger@manitobacamping.ca or 204-784-1134 by Tuesday, March 19.
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Benefits & Pension Association Plan for MCA Member Camps
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After some conversation with a couple camps not having a benefits program with their camp (small staff base, high cost, etc.) I investigated the possibility with MCA’s benefits provider about creating a Benefit plan for member camps in our association. It is possible.
Here is some information for you to ponder, discuss with your board and let me know if you are interested. We need a certain number of camps involved to move forward so please let me know either way.
Here is a sample plan design (not exactly how it would be but a place to start from) so you are aware of some possibilities.
There are 37 camps in total. In order to be able to initiate an association plan we would likely need around 50% participation of those camps in order for the insurance carriers to look at offering some coverage.
- In addition to the above, camps would be able to get coverage for full time permanent employees and part time permanent employees as long as they are working a minimum of 20 hours/week. Seasonal staff would not be able to access benefits.
- Camps with 2+ permanent employees will be no problem to include in the coverage, however camps with only 1 permanent employee may be more difficult to include. There are some options to make this available for the camps that have the one employee situation, so please let me know if as an individual employee you have interest in joining the plan in the first place.
The goal is to offer employees some additional incentive on top of salary that can help support you and your families. What creating an association plan like this will achieve is adding some economies of scale to smaller plans that may be in force. With a larger plan we take advantage of more lives being insured on the plan, reducing the overall plan usage risk which will hopefully result in each individual paying less in annual premiums.
What we would like to start off with as a beginning template is a very generic plan design that was created for us and is attached. If there is enough interest, the next step would require a brief business description of each camp with information on how long they have been a camp, funding methods of the camp and turnover of permanent full-time employees.
The other area of interest that was touched on was the idea of a employer/employee matching retirement savings plan. These plans can be designed in a very flexible manner, that can be very accommodating to members of the plan with different wants and needs. Please respond with a yes or no if you have interest in learning some further details on a plan of this nature and what it means for both employee and employer sides.
In order for them to start going to a few of the insurance carriers that may be willing to look at a plan like this they will then need some employee data filled out. That will be the third step, again if enough interest. Once they have everyone’s information back they can get quotes together. Price is an area that is so very sensitive to demographics. An extra 5 people can really throw off the rates. However their educated guess for a cost estimate would be about $90-$120 for a single and $280 to $320 for a family. That will cover life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, health and dental. He said he may be a little high on the family estimate. Some organizations will split this cost with their staff 50/50 or 75/25 or 100/0 or however your board wants.
This can be started at any time in the year, but for your own camps’ budgetary reasons, this is an ideal time to be looking at options for this year or in the near future.
Please let us know of your interests ASAP. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to be in touch with Kim kimscherger@manitobacamping.ca.
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Free Press Ad Rates
Each year, the Winnipeg Free Press publishes a camping insert - full of stories, pictures and advertisements. If you would like to place an ad in this year's supplement, you can contact Barb Borden to make arrangements: 204.697.7389 Barb.Borden@freepress.mb.ca
Attached - please find the cost to place an add: click here
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Do you have an energetic past or present staff member who would take the time to meet with me to share their views on working @ camp?
email rickscherger@manitobacamping.ca for details
I'd really like to spend some time getting to know your amazing staff members
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Camp of the Week 2019
We have begun organizing Camp of the Week details for the 2019 camping season.
This is an opportunity to get some free publicity through MCA.
I would love to get something from all 37 Member camps.
Yes, all 37 - no matter how big or small.
Attached is the list of confirmed dates
| Dates |
Camp |
| March 11 |
Camp Wasaga |
| March 18 |
BB Camp |
| March 25 |
Camp Stephens |
| April 1 |
Camp Massad |
| April 8 |
Camps with Meaning |
| April 15 |
St Malo |
| April 22 |
Red Rock Bible Camp |
| April 29 |
Luther Village |
| May 6 |
Gimli Bible Camp |
| May 13 |
CS Ranch |
| May 20 |
Dauphin Bible Camp |
| May 27 |
Tim Hortons |
| June 3 |
Camp Manitou |
| June 10 |
Camp Arnes |
| June 17 |
Winkler BC |
| June 24 |
Rock Lake United Church Camp |
| July 1 |
Anglican Memorial Camp |
| July 8 |
Cedarwood |
| July 15 |
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| July 22 |
Camp Nutimik |
| July 29 |
Camp Wannakumbac |
| Aug 5 |
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| Aug 12 |
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| Aug 19 |
Momenta |
| Aug 26 |
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If your camp is not on the confirmed list, please let me know as soon as possible, what week you would like to be highlighted.
Here is a preliminary schedule of what I would like to do.
Monday: Camp overview and a group pic (staff/campers/volunteers)
Tuesday: Five or six pics (closeups of people enjoying themselves)
Wednesday: 1-2 minute video - interview with someone who can talk camp
Thursday: Some Throwback Thursday pics
Friday: Favourite camp song (include video or audio if possible)
For the Wednesday interview, I am willing to travel if you have an office in the city (or close to the city) or we can connect via Skype and I can record that. As a last resort, I can record a phone interview.
Please email as soon as possible to connect for a spot in the calendar. If all 37 camps do indeed get back to me, there will be a few weeks where we have two camps of the week. rickscherger@manitobacamping.ca
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Publicity - get in soon.
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Empatico: A FREE program for your camp
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Connect your campers with other campers from around the world this summer.
The Canadian Camping Association is pleased to introduce Empatico for Camps, a free online tool that provides Canadian camps with opportunities to be matched with camps in the United States and Mexico.
The goal of Empatico is for campers to see how their peers around the world live, and to share and celebrate their lives and communities.It's FREE to sign up, and easy to bring to your camp! All you need is an internet connection and a device with a camera.
Learn more about Empatico. |
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New insurance requirements for commercial and public purpose ships that carry passengers
About a month ago new liability insurance requirements came into effect for passenger vessels operating in Canada. I am not sure what insurance provisions your camp operators currently carry but I thought I would send on an information notice that was sent out about the new requirements. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/bulletins-2018-13-eng.htm
Vaughan Owens
Marine Safety Inspector
Transport Canada - Marine Safety
vaughan.owens@tc.gc.ca / Tel: 204-583-6740 / TTY: 1-888-675-6863
Inspecteur de la sécurité maritime
Transports Canada - Sécurité maritime
vaughan.owens@tc.gc.ca / Tél: 204-583-6740 / ATS: 1-888-675-6863
Vaughn will be at the MCA/CCI Conference if you would like to ask him questions at that event.
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After 10 years of tree planting with Canadian Camping Association campers, The ChariTree Foundation is growing its #outdoorlearning reach + helping to send kids to camps + schools with #environmentaleducation programs.
The ChariTREE Foundation just completed 10 TREE-mendous years of planting trees with Canadian Camping Association / Association des camps du Canada campers!
“Thanks to all CCA campers, staff and volunteers and of course the remarkable Catherine Ross, my mentor from Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da ~ who all worked together to plant thousands of trees across Canada over the last ten summers,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder, The ChariTree Foundation.
She says she plans to take a break from this tree planting project to dig into a few new national and international kids climate action, food and water development projects by partnering with a new bigger charity she will help launch in 2019.
Read more
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Catalogue of best International Camps for kids to go on holidays
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We are https://www.campstogo.com - Russian online catalogue for kids camps and holidays program.
We are now very much looking for partners-camps outside Russia - for Russian parents (and not only Russian) to have a possibility to choose best kids camps from all over the world.
We are member of ICF and we take active position in Russia in camp and education industry.
We work in the direction of popularization children's camp vacations and other holidays programs for kids. We participate and organize ourselves off-line events like in B2B format for our suppliers whereby we summing up the season, discussing problems, practical cases, prospects for the development of camps and the industry in general, exchanging of experience, presenting products and services of partners from related industries.
60.000 clients in the base
1786 actual camps and holiday programs at the site
34 types of camps
73000+ reservations made
5700+ reviews left by parents
42 camps from outside Russia presented at the site (foreign partners)
5302 clients from outside Russia registered at the site (Russian speaking clients living in other countries)
300000 unique visitors monthly
Today we steady take 1-5 places in search systems (Google and Yandex) in Russia on “camps for kids” requests, we carry 30% from total traffic in Russia in the theme of kids camps.
Sources of traffic to the site:
82,6% - from search systems (Google and Yandex) in Russia on “camps for kids” requests
9,4% - direct link/calls
3,3% - internal transitions
1,3% - from e-mail distribution
1,3% - from social networks (Vkontakte, Facebook, Instagram)
We are oriented to parents which would like to give more to their children.
We would like to invite Canadian camps to take part in our catalogue.
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