Community of Hope

Featured Stories

  1. BC Special Olympics Project Outreach

    More than 300 children participated in sport through BC Special Olympics' Project Outreach.

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  2. Hope celebrates Spirit of BC Week 2008

    Hope hosted free events to celebrate Spirit of BC Week 2008.

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Related Highlights

  1. More than 1,000  young hockey players participated in Spirit of 2010 Hockey Tournaments.

  2. The Hope Region Spirit of BC Committee hosted events to celebrate the annual Spirit of BC Week.

  3. Five schools registered with Action Schools! BC to improve physical activity and healthy eating in students.

  4. The Fraser Cascade literacy task group received $90,000 from Literacy Now Communities to improve literacy in the area.

  5. The Aboriginal Sport Gallery travelling exhibit joined the Cowichan Spirit Pole tour and visited Hope in 2008.

  6. One youth received a high-performace athlete grant from the Aboriginal Youth Sport Legacy Fund.

  7. Chawathil First Nation received $1,000 from the Aboriginal Youth Sport Legacy Fund for its Chawathil Doing it Right program.

  8. Chawathil First Nation received $1,000 from the Aboriginal Youth Sport Legacy Fund to purhcase sport equipment.

  9. Over 150 tourism businesses in the Fraser Valley received accessibility ratings from the Accessible Tourism program.

  10. Over 300 youth in 24 communities across BC participated in the BC Special Olympics' Project Outreach, funded by the BC Sport Participation Program in 2004-2007.

  11. Over 1300 adolescent girls and women from seven communities as well as 111 coaches participated in ProMOTION Plus' Girls Only Badminton and Downhill Girls programs in 2007-2010 thanks to $25,000 from the BC Sport Participation Program.

  12. Hope received $5,000 from Spirit of BC.

  13. The Fraser Cascade literacy task group received $100,000 from Literacy Now Communities to improve literacy in Hope and Fraser Valley area.

  14. More than 1,200 students in 7 schools in the Fraser-Cascade School District participated in Action Schools! BC to improve physical activity and healthy eating.

  15. Sunshine Valley Active Community Committee-Sunshine Valley Ratepayers Association received $2,000 from the Local Sport Program Development Fund for the Snowshoeing for Everyone program.