Who is Kington Gets Active?

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Kingston Gets Active (KGA) is a community-wide initiative made up of partners from multiple sectors. KGA addresses the need for a multi-level approach to physical activity promotion by targeting various areas of community life such as educational and promotional activities; social marketing and communication; and infrastructure and public policy strategies.

Our Vision

Our vision is that all Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A)  residents are physically active every day.

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Our Mission

To promote, encourage, and support citizens to be physically active on a daily basis and physically literate through collaborative planning, community action, and policy advocacy.

Objectives

  1. To increase access to opportunities to be physically active to all KFL&A residents by reducing barriers to individual behavior change.
  2. To ensure more equitable access through promotion of free and low cost activities to target populations.
  3. To work together as a community partnership to link resources, events and opportunities in order to enhance sustainability and reduce duplication of services.
  4. To create supportive environments in which our citizens learn, commute, work and play.

Together, we can make the active choice the easy choice!

Thank you to our funders!

The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is an agency of the Government of Ontario, and one of Canada’s leading granting foundations. OTF awarded more than $120 million to some 700 projects last year to build healthy and vibrant communities in Ontario
Ontario Trillium Foundation logoHealthy Kids Community Challenge logo

Past funders include:

RBC Learn to Play Project Participaction logo Government of Ontario

Public Health Agency of Canada

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