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A Celebration of Sport and Community

The BC Winter and BC Summer Games are British Columbia’s biennial celebration of sport and community, bringing together British Columbia’s best emerging high performance athletes, trained coaches, and certified officials for five days of sport and activity.

The event provides an opportunity for the development of athletes, coaches, and officials in preparation for higher levels of competition, and the multi-sport environment helps promote interest and participation in sport and recreation, individual achievement, and community development.

The BC Games provide important economic and tourism benefits, allowing hosts to profile their communities and benefit from an economic impact in the range of $1.6 million to $2 million. The legacies of the BC Winter and BC Summer Games allow for capacity building in communities across the province resulting in a stronger British Columbia.

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INSPIRING SINCE 1978

Legacy of the Games

The BC Games have always been more than four days of sport and community celebration.  Since their inception in 1978, the Games have created legacies of both human performance and sport investment. The very first BC Summer Games were held in Penticton in 1978 with the first BC Winter Games taking place the following year in Kamloops.

The financial legacy of the BC Games is distributed through two main initiatives: Legacy Funding and the Powering Potential Fund (PPF). These initiatives are a unique catalyst for growth, for enhancing the community spirit, and re-investing in communities which give so much time, energy, and care to host B.C.’s best young athletes, coaches, and officials.

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About the BC Games Society

The BC Games Society is the organization responsible for setting the ongoing policy and direction of the BC Winter and BC Summer Games and supporting Team BC at the Canada Games.

Based out of Victoria, the Society works in partnership with governments, businesses and not for profit organizations, in and out of the sport sector, in the planning and staging of the Games. The organization serves as a leader in multi-sport event and volunteer management.

Following the philosophy of Helping Others Lead, BC Games staff conduct an extensive transfer of knowledge program provides tools, resources and templates to the Host Society to assist volunteers to create and implement a high quality event.

Vision

We strive to inspire exceptional experiences through sport.

Mission

The BC Games Society is the leadership organization that guides the BC Winter and BC Summer Games and prepares Team BC for national multi-sport Games.

We build on the expertise and support of partners to create development opportunities for athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, and communities.

Values

Integrity, trust and respect are the core of our game plan.
Dedicated – committed to the goal
Accountable – embracing responsibility
Collaborative – fostering dynamic teams
Evolving – adapting the game plan
Excellence – achieving personal bests

ACCESSIBILITY PLAN

Building an Accessible Games

The BC Games Society strives to inspire exceptional experiences for all participants by fostering an accessible, positive, respectful, and inclusive environment for all participants.

The Society has developed a BC Games Accessibility Plan, which outlines the guiding principles and protocols to ensure an inclusive and accessible Games experience for all participants.

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BC WINTER & SUMMER GAMES

Host Societies

When a community is awarded the Games, through the bidding process, a nominations committee, led by the local mayor, identifies community leaders to form the Board of Directors. The Board for each BC Winter and BC Summer Games then forms its own Society.

The Board is organized into 14 planning areas (Directorates). The work in the Directorates is overseen by a Director and managed by committee chairs. Collectively the Directors and Chairs lead as many as 2,500 community volunteers as they undertake to plan and stage the Games.

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Territory Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) People, also known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, and recognize that our work in this province spans the territories of more than 200 First Nations, as well as Métis and Inuit communities.

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