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Bird River Bible Camp

About Bird River Bible Camp
We are located in the beautiful Canadian Shield and offer a wide variety of activities during a Sunday to Friday stay on site. Each camper will live in cabins with up to 11 other campers for the week and at least 2 cabin leaders in each cabin. Your camper will have the bets week of the summer as they enjoy what we have to offer! Come and check us out this summer, you won't be disappointed!


Statement of Goals
To provide campers with an opportunity to to study the Bible in the context of a Christian camping experience and to seriously consider entering, or more fully developing a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Camp Type: Residentail
MCA Accredited: Yes
For children: Grades 2-7
Gender: Co-ed
Session Length: 6 days
Average weekly fee: $235 (for the summer of 2011)
Location: 135km North East of Winnipeg on Hwy 315
Transportation: Yes

Activities at Bird River Bible Camp
Archery
Biking
Canoe/Kyak
Cookout
Drama
Hiking
Nature Study
Religion
Rock climbing
Sailing
Sports
Swimming
Tubing

Contact Information 
Box 11250
Lac du Bonnet, MB R0E 1A0
Phone: 877-897-5506
Fax: 204-345-8677
Email: info@birdriver.net
website: www.birdriver.net

Our Camps

In the previous post I mentioned our Accredited Camps. I didn't go into detail about what or who they are, but keep reading to find out now!


What is an Accredited Camp?
Camps in Manitoba have come to an agreement on standards for a safe and quality camp. Accreditation is a process where the camp is visited by an outside experienced camp operator to check whether or not the camp is using these standards. Standards checked include:
 - Staff selection, training, and supervision
- Providing a good program with safe practices for the activities offered
- Safety and quality of the site and facilities
- Caring for the health of campers


This accreditation is monitored by the Manitoba Camping Association and camps choose if they want to be accredited through the MCA.


What does Accreditation mean to the Sunshine Fund?
The Sunshine Fund will only provide funding for those children wanting to go to an Accredited Camp.


What camps are Accredited through the MCA?
Here is a list of the Accredited Residential Camps that your child could attend with financial support from the Sunshine Fund:
(a residential camp means the camp is an overnight summer camp)

Anglican Camp
B'nai Brith Camp
Bird River Bible Camp
Caddy Lake Girl Guide Camp
Calvary Temple Camp
Camp Arnes
Camp Assiniboia
Camp Cedarwood
Camp Koinonia
Camp Massad
Camp Moose Lake
Camp Nutimik
Camp Quality
Camp Wannakumbac
Camp Wasaga
Camp Y
Cdn. Diabetes Association Camp Briardale
Circle Square Ranch
CNIB
Dauphin Bible Camp
Gimli Bible Camp
Luther Village
Manitoba Pioneer Camp
Red Rock Bible Camp
Rock Lake United Church Camp
Roseau River Bible Camp
St. Malo Catholic Camp
Simonhouse Bible Camp
Tumbleweeds Ranch
Turlte Mountain Bible Camp
Wellman Lake United Church Camp
Winkler Bible Camp
YMCA/YWCA Camp Stephens



Accredited Day Camps
Assiniboine Park Zoo Camp
Mini U- University of Manitoba
Rady JCC Summer Day Camps

So these are all of the camps your child can attend with funding from the Sunshine Fund next summer. In the posts to follow I will tell you more about each of these camps so you can pick a camp that is right for your child.

The Sunshine Fund

What is the Sunshine Fund? Maybe you have heard a little bit about it but below you will find out exactly what the Sunshine Fund is.

Continue to follow our blog and you can learn about all our member camps, all our policies and why we love camp and why we want every Manitoba child to go to camp.

The Sunshine Fund
The Sunshine Fund was started by the Winnipeg Free Press and the Manitoba Camping Association (MCA). The goal was to provide the camp experience to children in Manitoba whose parent's couldn't afford to send them. Since then the Sunshine Fund has been administered by the MCA.

What does the Sunshine Fund do?
The Sunshine Fund still sends Manitoba children to Accredited Manitoba summer camps.

How does the Sunshine Fund do this?
We raise money throughout the whole year and starting in February/March we start accepting applications sent in by parents that need help.

Our application has several sections to it for us to determine if a family qualifies or not. We base our acceptance on the total family income of the family based on how many people live in the house.

 The chart above shows our income requirements from summer 2011 (please note that these numbers are subject to change for summer 2012). 

Parents are still required to pay a portion of the camp fee to the Sunshine Fund. For example, if you were to fall into Level B, you would need to pay 20% of the camp fee to the Sunshine Fund. So if your child's camp fee cost $200,  the parent contribution would be $40. (Again these percentages were for 2011 and are subject to change for 2012).

So this is a basic outline of the Sunshine Fund. I will continue to post more details about applying, what you need when applying and any other questions you might have for us. 

If you do have questions please post them in the comments section below or email our Program Coordinator Janis at sunshinefund@mbcamping.ca.

Cheers,