Using your Leisure Access funds

You could qualify for a yearly amount of $400 per person in Leisure Access fee assistance. Learn how to use your Leisure Access funds below.

On this page:

1. Using your funds
2. Leisure Access for golf
3. Our funding year
4. Login to ActiveNet
5. Check your Leisure Access balance
6. Apply for Leisure Access

Using your funds

You can use Leisure Access to pay for:

• swimming lessons for adults and children
• March Break and summer camps
• aquatic leadership program
• swim tickets and passes at city pools
• BYLD (Building Youth Leadership Development)
• golf lessons, tee times, memberships and carts (fill out our request form or call 519-741-2892)
• leisure and older adult programs
• neighbourhood association programs
• Kitchener Market classes
• public skating at Lions Arena and Grand River Arena (get tickets at The Aud)
• gymnasium tickets at Breithaupt Centre or Downtown Community Centre

You can also use your funds to pay for a Kitchener Group Card, giving you unlimited access to ongoing groups at Downtown Community Centre, Rockway Centre and Breithaupt Centre. Contact a community centre to get started.

You cannot use Leisure Access to pay for:

• minor sport organizations (examples: hockey, soccer, gymnastics, baseball)
  • contact the minor sport organization, as they may offer their own fee assistance options

If you don't want to use your Leisure Access funds to pay for a program, please call 519-741-2907 (Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) for an override.

 Leisure Access for golf

Leisure Access funds can be put towards golf lessons, memberships and tee times at Doon Valley Golf Course and Rockway golf course. Funds cannot be used in the Pro Shop or for food and beverage purchases.

Request Leisure Access funds for Golf

Our funding year

Login to ActiveNet

After you're approved for Leisure Access, please do not create a new ActiveNet account. Your existing account will have the funds assigned to you.

To login to ActiveNet, follow these steps:

1. open ActiveNet
2. sign in with your email address and password
3. if you don't know your password, click on "forgot password" and enter the email address you used in your Leisure Access application

Visit our ActiveNet questions page to find answers to common questions.

To make the most of the ActiveNet search, watch this how-to video.

Check your Leisure Access balance

1. login to ActiveNet
2. click on "My Account"
3. under the Payment and Order Management section click on Leisure Access
4. to see other family members' funds, click on your name, which will become a drop-down list to choose other family members

Apply for Leisure Access

Visit our Leisure Access (fee assistance) page to find:

• qualifications
• what you need to apply
• application
• after you apply
• additional funding opportunities
• frequently asked questions