ABOUT BEERWARS

Beer Wars is an annual collaborative fundraiser between Vancouver’s Beer and Boxing communities. Participants from over a dozen local craft breweries take part in an intensive three month training regime to prepare themselves for a sold out boxing card at participating venues.

Funds raised from BeerWars benefits local boxing gym – Eastside Boxing Club located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. This community based non-profit aims to better its community through boxing programs and community building.

The dollars raised through Beer Wars, allows Eastside Boxing Club to serve the community of the Downtown Eastside. Through programs like:

• the youth afterschool boxing program,
• making moves: free boxing program for mothers living in the Downtown Eastside,
• free self-defence classes for women fem identified and members of the LGBTQTT2S+
• frontline fight club - free boxing training for front line workers dealing with the opioid crisis

Who can enter? Anyone who works at a brewery or in the beer industry (events, bloggers, distribution, suppliers, tours etc) can join. Everyone needs to be sponsored by a brewery (if you work in the industry however not for a brewery, we can help find one to sponsor you).

SPONSORSHIP

In order to participate in Beer Wars, you must be sponsored by a brewery, and that brewery must donate 50L of product (cans preferred).

FUNDRAISING

You must also raise a minimum $500 in donations in order to participate. Some breweries would like to cover the fundraiser goal of contenders in full. If this is the case, a $500 tax receipt will be provided to the brewery.

FEES

2020 registration fees are $150. This includes your Boxing BC membership fees. It does NOT include your medical fees.  You are responsible for supplying your own equipment (more details in the Orientation Guide).

ORIENTATION

Orientation is on January 18th, from 2pm to 10pm.  Please make a point to attend as we’ll be providing you with important details and answering any questions you may have; as well as helping you set up your fundrazr!

Orientation is at Eastside Boxing, 238 Keefer Street.

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