COMMUNITY BETTER CHALLENGE

2025 COMMUNITY BETTER CHALLENGE

Its a wrap folks! Our 2025 Keep Up contest has come a close. Congratulations to Nader M. for winning the Blind Tennis Challenge and Amir S. and friends for winning the Volleyball Sequence Challenge. Enjoy the prizes and stay active this summer! See the impact through the support of ParticipACTION's Community Better Challenge below:

The Keep Up Contest is back for 2025. Join us in getting active this June by joining our challenges - let's get moving!

Only contestants living in Canada with a Canadian address may be eligible for the prizes. This contest with all the challenges will end on June 30, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Submitted entries must be dated prior to the ending date and time.

Challenge #1: Blind Tennis

Self rally by closing or covering your eyes if you are sighted or have low vision.
Record it, post, tag us, and add us as a collaborator on IG @changethroughsport
Let people you mention add this to their story and reshare it with their audience by toggling ON if your account is private.
State how many minutes or hours you spent attempting this challenge.
The video with the highest number of continuous self-rallies will win a new tennis racquet with a maximum value of $100.00!!!
Include #KeepUp in your post or caption.

Challenge #2: Volleyball Sequence

Come up with a creative volleyball trick shot (with friends)
Record it, post, tag us, and add us as a collaborator on IG @changethroughsport
Let people you mention add this to their story and reshare it with their audience by toggling ON if your account is private.
State how many minutes or hours you spent attempting this challenge.
The video with the highest number of likes will win a new volleyball with a maximum value of $100.00!!!
Include #KeepUp in your post or caption.

Submit your take before the end of June as per instructions above. If more than one contestant has the same amount of self-rallies for the highest total, a random draw will take place to select the winner.

2023 COMMUNITY BETTER CHALLENGE

In partnership with ParticipACTION's Community Better Challenge and Tyndale St. Georges Community Centre, we delivered a series of tennis sessions in Little Burgundy, Montreal! Over 70 participants were engaged in physical activities for a total of nearly 5000 minutes! Thank you to everyone involved, we hope that you worked up a good sweat - keep active!

This event was made possible due to the generous support of ParticipACTION's Community Better Challenge funded by the Government of Canada.

2022 COMMUNITY BETTER CHALLENGE

On June 11, 2022, in partnership with ParticipACTION's Community Better Challenge and Teen Haven, we introduced young people to the game of beach volleyball in Montreal! The weather was great and the participants were game! In less than one hour of training, we were playing matches!!! Well done Teen Haven youth. Stay active and we will see you soon!

This event was made possible due to the generous support of ParticipACTION's Community Better Challenge funded by the Government of Canada.

2021 COMMUNITY BETTER CHALLENGE

Join Change Through Sport from June 1 - June 30 2021 and win prizes for completing our fitness and volleyball challenges!

1. Weekly Fitness Challenge

To enter the challenge and be eligible to win prizes:

Complete the application form
Send an email to keepup@changethroughsportcanada.com with the total number of minutes spent completing the challenge and attach a photo of you doing the challenge by the deadline of every week.

We will post our Fitness Challenges on Change Through Sport official instagram account (@changethroughsport) and on this page throughout the month of June. Visit us every week to find out about the next challenge!

Week 1 - COMPLETED:

Fitness Challenge: 30 Burpees or more!!!
Deadline for submission: June 6 2021 by 11:59 PM EST
Winners: Tammy A. and Jordon C.

Week 2 - COMPLETED:

Fitness Challenge: 30 min (or more) of walking / running
Deadline for submission: June 13 2021 by 11:59 PM EST
Winners: Jordon C. and Sabrina C.

Week 3 - COMPLETED:

Fitness Challenge: 30 min (or more) of any physical activity
Deadline for submission: June 20 2021 by 11:59 PM EST
Winner: Billy H.

Week 4 - COMPLETED:

Fitness Challenge: 60 min (or more) of any physical activity
Deadline for submission: June 27 2021 by 11:59 PM EST
Winner: Wai L.

2. Volleyball Video - Keep Up Challenge

To enter the challenge and be eligible to win prizes:

If you haven't already, complete the application form
Send your best keep up video to keepup@changethroughsportcanada.com along with total minutes spent completing challenge - including practice time!
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit your video and minutes by June 30, 2021 11:59 PM EST.
The top 5 videos from our Rexdale Youth and top 5 videos from the general public will be selected by a panel of Change Through Sport judges for public voting.
Public voting will take place from July 5-9, 2021 through the instagram account of Change Through Sport (@changethroughsport)
1 winner from each category (Rexdale Youth and general public) will be declared by Change Through Sport after July 10, 2021.

Volleyball Keep Up Challenge - VOTING OPEN:

View submissions and vote!
Deadline for voting: July 22 2021 by 11:59 PM EST
Submissions closed (deadline June 30 2021 by 11:59 PM EST)

Change Through Sport (CTS) is proud to present the Keep Up with Rexdale challenge in partnership with the ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge. The Community Better Challenge is a national physical activity initiative that encourages Canadians to get active in search of Canada’s Most Active Community. From June 1 – 30, 2021 ParticipACTION is asking Canadians to get active and track their physical activity minutes in an effort for their community to be recognized as one that champions active living.

Full contest rules can be found here

For more information on the ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge funded by the Government of Canada, please visit:

Community Better Challenge.