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Abbottsfield Youth Project's 40th Birthday
The count down begins! Happy 40th Birthday to Abbottsfield Youth Project! For four decades, AYP has been planting the seeds of hope, growth, and opportunity for at-risk children and youth in the North-East side of Edmonton! This organization has continued to evolve and has been able to create a meaningful impact to our local communities thanks to support of you all! We hope we can continue to instill Trust, build healthy Relationships, support others through Empowerment, encourage Creativity, find room for Playfulness, and continue to promote Growth to others. Here’s to 40 years of empowering young people, strengthening families and communities, and continuing to plant the seeds for a brighter future.
11th Annual Growcase
Along with our 40th Anniversary, we will be celebrating our 11th annual Growcase Fundraiser on Saturday, November 14th.
This fundraiser directly support’s AYP’s programming throughout the year. Here at AYP, we firmly believe that the future of our city lies in the hands, hearts, and minds of our youth. Every child deserves the chance to succeed based on effort, character, and resilience – not circumstance. AYP turns this belief into real life changing action.
Thank you sincerely, for taking the time to learn about this initiative and for considering your support of a cause that means so much for Abbottsfield Youth Project. If you are interested in attending or want to learn more, head over to our Growcase page by clicking the button below!
Our Mission
Since 1986
AYP has been providing free life-skills programs for children ages 6-17 who live in high-risk North East Edmonton communities. Whether it be our flagship Community Outreach & Living Skills In-school program, our Community Explorers program or our ART with AYP program, our wide variety of after-school and evening program offerings foster the healthy development of each participant’s sense of self-esteem and self-worth.
With each of our programs, our focus is to create a learn-through-play environment and encourage the development of effective living skills, the pursuit of healthy lifestyle choices, and the connection of families to the community.
Today, AYP offers 9 auxiliary programs, and is partnered with 13 schools in the Northeast area of Edmonton. In 2025, AYP supported over 350 unique children and 266 unique families. Through our Healthy Snack Program, we offered 8,431 healthy snacks to 356 unique children.
Please click on the button below to access AYP’s Program Schedule! Stay tuned to our calendar for any updates and important dates coming up!
Our Values
Trust
Relationships
Growth
Playfulness
Empowerment
Creativity
2025 Annual Report
In 2025, AYP supported over 350 children across all programs. We saw tremendous success with our healthy snack program, delivering over 8,400 healthy snacks to the children in our programs.
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Volunteers
We have a number of volunteers and students that dedicate their hearts and time to the kids of AYP.