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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects 1 in 50 Canadian youth. While the power of community sport is transformative, many autistic children and youth face persistent financial, environmental, and systemic barriers to participation. To build permanent, inclusive sport pathways, the Ottawa Sport Council and OSEG Foundation are partnering through the Sport for All Ottawa Fund to launch the All In for Autism in Sport Grant on September 7th, 2026. [...]

Join Run Ottawa and Ottawa Sport Council for a Virtual Information Session & Q&A Thursday, September 10th. The Ottawa Sport Council is excited to share a vital funding opportunity for local sport organizations! Run Ottawa has launched the Run Ottawa Community Sport Fund, providing financial support to local, non-profit community sport organizations to help purchase essential equipment that enhances program delivery, safety, participant experience, and accessibility.

Led by Drs. Milena Parent and Mayur Joshi and research team from the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management and the University of Guelph Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, this initiative directly addresses the operational realities facing community non-profit sport organizations (NPSOs)[...]

More than six years in the making, the big show is almost here as the nation’s capital gets set to host the Ottawa 2026 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships from Sept. 9-19 – an event that’s already made an enormous impact on the city before it even tips off. “It’s a huge opportunity. We hope […]

The Ottawa Sport Council, in partnership with Ottawa Public Health, is launching an innovative project called Ottawa Quality Sport Pilot Initiative to support coaching standards across community sport. Through this project, two selected community sport organizations receive five (5) Quality Sport Leader – Level 1 (QSL1) certification and each organization will receive a 1-year subscription to PLAYBuilder by Sport for Life [...]

The Ottawa Sport Council is pleased to introduce Rick Watkins as our latest Community Sport Hero! Rick has served as a volunteer track-and-field official for the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club since 2007, taking on leadership roles and enabling opportunities for athletes to compete in settings from grassroots to high-performance. First drawn in when […]

The Ottawa Sport Council is pleased to introduce our latest Community Sport Heroes – the Community Sport Hosts for ‘Sports 200: Two Days. Everyone Plays.’! The OSC was once again reminded of the tremendous spirit and dedication of our local sports organizations, which welcomed 1,200+ registered participants for free sports events across the city on […]

The Ottawa Sport Council, in partnership with City of Ottawa Recreation, Cultural and Facilities Services and Ottawa 200 hosted a massive citywide initiative to encourage residents to participate in free sports activities on the weekend of June 6 and 7. Participants discovered sports available in their neighbourhoods, many families experienced new activities together, and others came away with entirely new perspectives on what Ottawa represents. [...]

The deadline for Community Sport Hosts to register their interest in hosting an event was May 22. The invitation below is available for information purposes. Stay tuned for future opportunities to get involved by signing up for the Ottawa Sport Council’s newsletter. Dear Community Sport Partners, In 2026, our city marks a historic milestone: the […]

They may not always get the love they deserve in the heat of the action, but sports officials got a tip of the cap for all their exceptional efforts at City Hall as the Ottawa Sport Council co-hosted a breakfast celebrating National Officials Day on April 17. “We all very much believe that sport is […]