Impact Stories

If Brandon Funk, 18, tries really hard, he can imagine what his life would have been like without the Boys and Girls Club of Westaskiwin.He doesn’t think he would be at university now, on his way to being a teacher. He wouldn’t have played basketball at high school, or been one of the presidents of his Grade 12 cl...

Sometimes John Neal, 58, a regional and city councillor in Oshawa, Ontario, goes back to Boys and Girls Club of Durham where he spent his crucial teen years and thinks about all the kids who have passed through its doors since it opened nearly five decades ago. “Every inch of it was used and every inch is still used,&r...

Denise Williams can point to the single story that shows her the remarkable spirit of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes. Before her own three boys got involved in the Clubs seven years ago, Williams was office coordinator at a local school where a Boys and Girls Clubs bus brought kids in every day. One morning, a li...