Clubs

Click HERE to see the chartered, suspended, and rescued clubs for the 2008-2009 year.

As of August 31st, 2009 there were 45 Key Clubs in the Eastern Canada District with

a total membership of 926.

The breakdown of clubs is as follows

• Ontario 33
• Quebec 4
• Atlantic Canada 9 [PEI 1, NB 2, NS 4, NL 2]

The newly chartered clubs are: White Oaks Secondary School in Oakville ON and St Stephen HS in St Stephen, New Brunswick.  The most senior Key Clubs are Sussex Academy NB [1948], Ridgetown ON [1955] and Brantford ON [1957].  The majority of the charters date from the late 1980s onwards.

Each Key Club has its own student executive with a faculty and Kiwanis advisor. One of the major roles of the Kiwanis advisor is to provide financial support for dues payment and convention attendance expenses.  It is normal practice that the Kiwanis Club pays the dues to KI and then works out a local arrangement with its Key Clubs for reimbursement. We suggest the Kiwanis Club pays the dues from its charitable account and let the Key Club focus on charitable fundraising rather than on raising money to pay for their dues. For conventions each of student, school and Kiwanis Club contributes a third of the cost.

A common practice is for the Key Club and the Kwianis Club to work on one or more service projects each year, attend at one another's meetings as circumstances allow and to have  at least one joint celebration usually with the induction of Key Club officers.