New event breaking down cost barriers for youth sport

The idea for Shed Your Threads started through students at VIU, who developed the idea and partnered with the City to make it happen. The initial launch in March of 2020 was postponed due to increasing health restrictions.

A variety of equipment on offer runs the sporting gamut from skates and hockey sticks to soccer cleats and baseball gloves.

The items were collected through 2019 and early 2020 prior to the onset of the pandemic, via donation bins at recreation facilities across the city.

“There’s ski’s, a big bag full of baseball gloves,” Seginowich said. “I had a look at them and they aren’t the plastic ones you’d buy in the local department store, there’s some nice Rawlings, Wilson-style leather gloves. There’s some really nice things.”

The goal is to reduce what Seginowich calls the “leisure barrier”, where the purchase of sports equipment prevents a kid from trying a particular activity.

“It’s a big barrier that a lot of families have in the community.”

Donations are not being solicited but will be accepted if dropped off on the day. All donations will go through a cleaning and sanitization process before being given away.

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by NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

New event breaking down cost barriers for youth sport

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