Return to Sport

British Columbians will be able to get back to playing sports sooner with the Province’s action to protect amateur sport organizations from COVID-19 liabilities, provided they are complying with public health orders and provincial sport guidelines.

Government has created a ministerial order that protects amateur sport organizations, their employees and volunteers from liability.

Quick Facts:

• There are 72 funded provincial sport organizations and 4,100 local sport organizations with over 800,000 youth and adult participants throughout

BC.

• Viasport British Columbia is a notfor-profit organization created with the support of the provincial government in 2011 to lead the province’s sport sector to build a stronger, more effective system that brings more families to the field of play, more fans into the stands, more athletes to the podium and more sports events to the province. news.gov.bc.ca/22372