Ritchie Bros. Raises $600,000 for KidSport BC

September 16, 2014 - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers hosted its fifth annual Corporate Kids Challenge this week and raised more than $600,000 for KidSport BC, a community-based sports funding program that provides grants for financially disadvantaged children to participate in amateur sport. To date, the Corporate Kids Challenge has raised more than $2.4 million for KidSport BC.

For the event, Ritchie Bros. welcomed Olympic athletes, local celebrities and corporate teams to participate in a series of sports day challenges and capped off the event with a live and silent charity auction. Attending on behalf of the Province of B.C., Burnaby North MLA Richard T. Lee presented a $400,000 donation to KidSport BC at the event.

For more than 20 years, KidSport has been raising money to help financially disadvantaged kids participate in organized sports; changing thousands of lives in the process. In 2013, KidSport provided funding for 6,700+ kids in B.C., a number they hope to top this year with the help of the money raised by this year's Corporate Kids Challenge.

Ritchie Bros. was the host and main sponsor of the event. Other sponsors included Westminster Savings Credit Union, who made a $60,000 donation at the event, as well as Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC, Symantec, Heritage, Triple O's, Unity Telecom, WPCG Consulting, Bell, Samsung, ViaSport, Burnaby Firefighters, RBC Capital Markets, Raymond James Ltd. and more.

Ritchie Bros. plans to host the sixth Corporate Kids Challenge in September 2015.