2025 Impact Report: A Year of Resilience

YMCAs of Québec's 2025 impact report covers a year of organisational resilience following significant budget challenges, including closure of the International Language School and day camp programmes. Despite this, 71,450 people were supported including 38,340 young people. Key programmes include TeenZones for teens and young adults, Camp Kanawana, La Boussole criminal reintegration (40th anniversary), Back on Track school dropout prevention, temporary housing for nearly 2,200 people, and fitness and aquatic activities for nearly 30,000 participants.

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Youth success programmes (TeenZones, Back on Track school dropout prevention, Naismith Basketball League, C-Vert environmental leadership); Camp YMCA Kanawana overnight camp; temporary housing for asylum seekers and people in transitory situations; exclusion prevention including La Boussole criminal records reintegration programme; outreach and homelessness support; fitness, aquatics and health programmes; aquatic certifications and lifeguard training

📊Key Metrics

71,450 people supported in 2025, including 38,340 young people Key Metric 1
25,217 young people supported by programmes fostering their success; 4,419 teens and young adults made 66,554 visits to 11 TeenZones Key Metric 2
29,964 people got active through fitness and aquatic activities; 5,605 children learned to swim or participated in swim lessons Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 1,876 asylum seekers and 276 people in transitory situations welcomed through YMCA Residences temporary housing; 135 people per evening sheltered at Downtown YMCA warming centre over winter
  • 5,491 people with criminal records supported through La Boussole and social reintegration programmes; 534 participants helped by La Boussole in its 40th anniversary year
  • 3,429 students supported through Back on Track school dropout prevention programme (formerly Alternative Suspension), active in 70 communities worldwide since 1999; 862 campers at Camp Kanawana with 58 families receiving financial assistance

📍Geography

International

2025 Enhanced

Annual Review 2024-25

55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 1
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 2
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
Key Metric 3
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
2025

Annual Impact Report 2024–2025

CAD $366.1m total revenue in FY2024–25 (year ended 31 March 2025)
Key Metric 1
500+ locations across the Greater Toronto Area serving children, youth, families, immigrants and job seekers
Key Metric 2
Largest not-for-profit child care provider in Canada; child care fees capped at CAD $22/day under Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system from January 2025
Key Metric 3
Received largest multi-year gift in charity's history — CAD $10m over five years from The Barrett Family Foundation to fund youth programmes including Black Achievers, newcomer youth groups and financial literacy