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What You Need to Know

Read this if you can't read everything

  • The big news is that registration for Community League Day 2022 opens on July 1. Register you Community League Day event before August 19 to qualify for early-bird prizes that you can use as prizes at your own event: two Lego kits from Hobby Wholesale (one large children's kit, $200 value; one large adult kit, $200 value); and 10 Save-On Foods grocery cards worth $25 each. 
     
  • Our report on the Community League Operating Grant data we collected is complete. You'll be stunned by some of the numbers.
     
  • We've got a deal specifically for Leagues and for Living Local subscribers. It's your lucky day.

    Need more info? Read on.
Be in Touch with EFCL
Register Your Community League Day Event
Download Our Community League Day Toolkit

Data Shows Leagues Matter

CLOG report puts numbers behind what we all know 


Did you know that League volunteers gave nearly 259,000 hours of their time toward building a better city in 2021? Or that there were 8,158 volunteers in the League system last year? 

The EFCL has started collecting the Community League Operating Grant data from Leagues and our report on that data is interesting reading. 
Read our CLOG 2021 Report

Discount Theatre Tickets

Offer open to Living Local subscribers


We don't often offer subscribers deals but we've got one here: Walterdale Theatre is offering this newsletter's subscribers 10 per cent off of tickets to their next production, which starts on July 6.

Use promo code TRJcommunity

Show details below:

The Realistic Joneses
Written by Will Eno
 
Bob and Jennifer Jones are middle-aged and dissatisfied with their situation. Their young, new neighbours, John and Pony Jones, pretend to have a light and bubbly life. When these two couples meet, their interactions draw out topics none of them want to discuss, and they all discover they share more than just a last name.
 
Evenings: July 6-9 and July 12-16, 8pm
Matinée: July 10, 2pm
Buy Tickets

We Love The Bike Challenge

An appreciation post for Leagues making the city better 

The Community League Bike Challenge is the sort of event that makes other cities jealous. Not only was this created by Leagues, for Leagues, but look at these results – tens of thousands of kilometres ridden by bike. Thanks to Ritchie Community League for not only posting the results but grinding out the kilometres in the saddle. Impressive. 
Read More About the Bike Challenge

Grants

Return to Play Returns

Grant supports organizations that help youth, families and individuals with disabilities' get active

The Alberta Recreation and Parks Association has released information this week that there is a grant opportunity to provide sport, physical activity and recreation for children and youth. Grants are up to $15,000. Learn more and apply at the link below.  

Apply to Return to Play Grant

COVID Recovery from EAC

Fund specifically targets groups including Community Leagues

From the Edmonton Arts Council:

"In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on the arts sector, the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Arts Council (EAC) have launched the Arts Presentation Fund for COVID Recovery, a new funding opportunity for arts organizations, festivals, community leagues, and other presenters/venues. 

Managed by the EAC, grants between $500 and $10,000 per applicant will be available to presenters for the purpose of compensating local artists, for performances or presentations in Edmonton."


Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash

Read More About the Recovery Grant

Resource Library

Community League Day 2022 Toolkit

Build Edmonton – With Us: Graphics, tipsheets, tools

We’ve created a virtual toolkit that will allow Leagues to concentrate on their Community League Day events and let us worry about graphics, messaging, preparations and other questions.

Build Edmonton – With Us
The idea for Community League Day in 2022 is simple. While each League should hold a great event, what might happen for all Leagues if we all collectively share a visual look, similar messages and other bits to convey the bigger story – that there are 162 Leagues across Edmonton? We’re a community-building force. Let’s make that clear using #LetsBuildYEG.

Download Our Community League Day Toolkit
Register Your Community League Day Event

Other Notable Stuff

Accessibility Presentation

Vital learning resource

On June 24 the City held a community accessibility workshop to talk about ensuring all public spaces are accessible. There were two members of the Accessibility Advisory Committee who spoke for the first half hour about their lived experience, which was very powerful. The workshop is about an hour long and has some great information. We encourage you to have a look.  

Watch Accessibility Presentation

Big Rental Opportunity

If your League hall and facilities fit the bill, here's a revenue generator 

Free Play for Kids is looking for League halls to rent on weekdays to offer (paid) multi-sport children's programming from September 2022 to June 2023.

The group will pay standard hall rental rates to run sessions between 6:15 and 8:45pm once a week. 

Free Play requires:

  • the hall (which must be large enough to accommodate fitness activities inside for 20 children plus three adults)
  • outdoor field and rink
  • access to the hall washroom. 

These paid community programs are separate additions to the free Start to Play program. Free Play for Kids will market the programs; Leagues need only to supply rental agreements. 

If you're interested, be in touch with Free Play. 

Photo by Robert Linder on Unsplash

Contact Garth at Free Play
We respectfully acknowledge the land upon which the EFCL operates is located on Treaty 6 Territory and has served a purpose as a traditional meeting ground for many First Nations groups. This territory has provided a traveling route and home to the Nakoda Sioux, and later, Blackfoot and Cree peoples, followed by Saulteaux and Métis and other Indigenous peoples.
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