Our Lame Name

We realize that our name, Fernie Kids Club Society, does not say much about who we are and in fact it's kind of lame. We apologize. Please don't hate us for it. It's a temporary name.

Our group is in the process of becoming a Boys & Girls Club but we can't officially call ourselves that until we get everything in order to BE a Boys & Girls Club. That's because the name is officially owned by Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada and they don't want just any old group to be affiliated with them. We have work to do in order to be eligible to have the honour of being part of the great Boys & Girls Club network - like make sure we have all the money we need, make sure we have a space to hold our programs, and make sure we have interesting programs and fun staff to run them. We have a lot to do, but we're excited and we're pretty sure that soon all of Fernie will be excited about this too.

In order to make our group legitimate we had to pick a name and register it with the province as a non-profit society. This means that now we can legally collect money from people who want to support us and we can get a bank account for our group to put the money in. Stuff like that. We tried to get these other 3 names but we were turned down:

1. Fernie Child and Youth Society
2. BGC Fernie Society
3. Boys and Girls Club of Fernie Society.
   

So now we are settled with Fernie Kids Club Society but hopefully it will be changed in less than a year. Even though it's got the word 'kids' in it, rest assured that our first order of business is to get a youth drop-in up and running for teens.

In the meantime, you can click on this link (same as the one above) to learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada.

And feel free to click on the word 'comments' below and leave some :)