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With the calendar turning to 2026, we take a look back on an amazing 2025 for the Ottawa Sport Council in our mission to Champion, Educate and Connect community sport. Have a look through the images below for the highlights. We thank everyone involved in local sport for all your efforts in 2025 and look […]

Save the Date! January 28th, 2026 Ottawa Sport Council will host a one-hour Strong Grant Applications webinar to start your 2026 grant writing journey off to a great start. Ottawa Sport Council continues to champion, educate and connect the community sport sector to a variety of grant funding opportunities throughout the year through the OSC Newsletter and our social media channels. To support this further we are excited to have Tais McNeill of Ottawa Community Foundation provide key educational pieces...

The Ottawa Sport Council is pleased to introduce Greg Rampley as our latest Community Sport Hero! Greg and his family moved to Ottawa in January 2011 and he rapidly immersed himself in a range of volunteer roles in local lacrosse and basketball, including coach, director, scheduler and president of the Gloucester Lacrosse Association and Ontario Zone 5. [...}

Thank you very much to everyone who attended and made the Ottawa Sport Council's 11th annual Ottawa Sport Summit a great success! We'd to share our feedback survey, a highlight video, an event recap, post-event resources, and opportunities to stay connected and donate to the Ottawa Sport Council Foundation. [...]

The Ottawa Sport Council is pleased to announce that Prezdential Basketball and Trips For Kids Ottawa are the 2025 recipients of the Ottawa Sport Council Foundation Community Opportunity Grant. Each group will receive $2,000 towards programs which support accessibility and inclusivity of children and youth from underrepresented and marginalized populations facing socio-economic barriers [...]

Safe Sport is Positive Sport – The Ottawa Sport Council is proud to share their involvement in a 2 day National collaboration held in Quebec City June 2nd and 3rd with Project Team Up for Safe Sport. This collaboration consists of each Province’s/region sport agencies championing safe sport principales and positive sport culture. This coming […]

In a room full of referees, umpires and officials, there were many whistles heard this morning, but on this occasion they were sounds of appreciation instead of foul calls as the Ottawa Sport Council co-hosted a breakfast event celebrating National Officials Day at City Hall. “Thank you for the work that you do to support […]

In consultation with community sport leaders, challenges identified with volunteering included a shrinking volunteer base, high turnover, and difficulties with recruitment, onboarding, training, managing, and appreciating volunteers. The Volunteer Toolbox resources were designed to address these issues.