the participaction community challenge
presented by novo nordisk
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Let’s make room to move
June 1 – 30, 2025
Win $100,000 as Canada’s Most Active Community
Get active this June to help your community be crowned Canada’s Most Active Community and win $100,000 to support local sport and physical activity initiatives!
The Participaction Community Challenge grant program – applications now closed
As part of the 2025 Community Challenge, ParticipACTION will be providing grants of up to $1,500 to community organizations to help them promote and deliver sport and physical activity opportunities to equity-denied groups, including Black, racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+ and low-income communities, persons with disabilities, newcomers to Canada and older adults.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to apply for a Community Challenge grant! Once we’ve reviewed all the grant applications, we’ll contact each applicant to confirm their application status, which you can also view by logging in to your account. We expect to notify all applicants by mid-March.
What is the ParticipACTION Community Challenge presented by Novo Nordisk?
Who can participate in the Community Challenge?
The Community Challenge is open to everyone in Canada! Community organizations can register their June physical activity and sport initiatives, programs and events and track the numbers of participants on the Challenge webpage from June 1 – 30, 2025. Individuals can also contribute to their community’s final score by registering and finding ways to get active throughout June. After June 30, 2025, finalist communities will be invited to submit an application and share why they deserve to be named Canada’s Most Active Community.
How does the Community Challenge promote equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility?
Everyone living in Canada should have access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities that help them grow and thrive—physically, emotionally and socially. The Community Challenge helps facilitate low-barrier, inclusive opportunities for people in Canada to participate in physical activity and sport.
This funding will help level the playing field by reducing barriers to physical activity and sport that people belonging to these groups face while building stronger and healthier communities.
Congratulations to Canada’s Most active Community in 2024!
After more than 1,100 organizations and 1,250 communities participated in the 2024 Community Challenge, we were pleased to announce that
Hay River, Northwest Territories is Canada’s Most Active Community in 2024!
They won the $100,000 grand prize to support local physical activity and sport initiatives! Read the press release to learn more about the 2024 national winner.
ParticipACTION also awarded additional prizes to the most active community in each province and territory:
- Red Deer, Alberta (prizing supported by the Government of Alberta)
- Richmond, British Columbia
- Snow Lake, Manitoba
- Salisbury, New Brunswick (prizing supported by the Government of New Brunswick)
- Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador (prizing supported by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Hay River, Northwest Territories (prizing supported by the Government of Northwest Territories)
- Truro, Nova Scotia (prizing supported by the Province of Nova Scotia)
- Iqaluit, Nunavut (prizing supported by the Government of Nunavut)
- Timmins, Ontario
- Three Rivers, Prince Edward Island (prizing supported by the Government of Prince Edward Island)
- Québec City, Québec
- Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (prizing supported by the Government of Saskatchewan)
- Whitehorse, Yukon
- Red Deer, Alberta (prizing supported by the Government of Alberta)
- Richmond, British Columbia
- Snow Lake, Manitoba
- Salisbury, New Brunswick (prizing supported by the Government of New Brunswick)
- Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador (prizing supported by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Hay River, Northwest Territories (prizing supported by the Government of Northwest Territories)
- Truro, Nova Scotia (prizing supported by the Province of Nova Scotia)
- Iqaluit, Nunavut (prizing supported by the Government of Nunavut)
- Timmins, Ontario
- Three Rivers, Prince Edward Island (prizing supported by the Government of Prince Edward Island)
- Québec City, Québec
- Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (prizing supported by the Government of Saskatchewan)
- Whitehorse, Yukon
Thanks to everyone that took part in the 2024 Community Challenge presented by Novo Nordisk!
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2023
2022
2021
Hay River,
NT
Salisbury,
NB
Red Deer,
AB
North Grenville,
ON
Community Challenge winners
2024 Hay River, Northwest Territories
2023 Salisbury, New Brunswick
2022 Red Deer, Alberta