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The Toronto Polar Bear Dip
Sunday January 1, 2023 
Sunnyside Park, Toronto, ON,
12:00 pm NOON

Cost is $30. All proceeds to Boost CYAC. We encourage all dippers to set up a fundraising page and ask your network to support your dip with a donation to Boost CYAC.

Our 2023 fundraising goal is $40,000 to assist children and teens who have experienced abuse and violence to be safe from harm. Since 2005 we have raised over $1 million for Toronto charities.

All participants must pre-register here.  No on-site registration will take place.

_{Note: A live feed of each DIP will be available on Facebook at @Torontopolarbear}

Register to DIP here

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_{About the Toronto Polar Bear Club:}

_{The Toronto Polar Bear club is a volunteer group committed to "do the dip". It is a refreshing way to start the new year, plus we're helping a great charity at the same time.}

_{Come join us.  Many of our dippers come annually and a few have been dipping with us from the beginning.  If this is your first time out, we look forward to seeing you.}

_{About the Charity:}

_{We are raising money again this year for Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre (Boost CYAC), so please encourage everyone you know to sponsor your dip.  100% of fundraising dollars from the dip will go to Boost CYAC, an organization committed to eliminating abuse and violence in the lives of children, youth and their families. They respond to all sexual offenses, and the most severe physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and violence towards children and youth under 18 years in Toronto, Ontario. Boost CYAC also offers a number of direct services including, primary prevention, public education, trauma assessment and therapy and court preparation for child witnesses. www.boostforkids.org}

_{COVID-19 Safety:}

• _{Maintain a 2 metres distance from people you don’t live with if you are uncertain of their vaccine status.}
• _{We recommend all participants, spectators and volunteers wear a face mask when you arrive, line-up, wait to dip and exit the dip area. Masks can be removed when doing the dip.}
• _{If you are sick the day of the dip, stay home and get tested.}
• _{Participants, spectators and volunteers will be asked to pre-screen prior to entering the Dip area.}
• _{Only pre-registered dippers will be allowed to enter the dip area, no less than 30 mins before dip start time.}
  
• _{Contactless check-in.}
• _{No on-site registration will be available.}