Our club is a non profit organization that was originally chartered on October 31, 1960 by the Kinsmen Club of Fredericton. The club at that time was comprised of men between the ages of 19 and 40 who met each week at different locations throughout the city and ran various service projects to raise money in support of the Kin Motto, “Serving the Community’s Greatest Needs”. The girlfriends and wives of the Kinsmen expressed an interest in also having a club and helping out their community so on February 20, 1969 the Kinsmen Club of Nashwaaksis chartered a club for them called the Kinette Club of Nashwaaksis. These clubs continued to grow and spawned clubs for more senior Kinsmen and Kinettes called the K-40 and K-Ette Clubs respectively.
From these beginnings sprang a joint club called the Kin Club of Nashwaaksis made up of male and female members of any age who wish to help out their community, meet new people and have fun in doing so. We have our own building located at 141 School Street in Fredericton.
Our members come from all walks of life and represent a majority of the occupations out there from stay at home Mom to banker.
WHAT WE DO – LOCALLY
You’ve seen us often in your community and probably did not realize it. We have hosted the Fredericton Santa Claus Parade for decades. We volunteer our services at a number of barbecues during the summer including the Terry Fox Run. A number of things in your community came into existence with the help of donations from the money we have raised including the Royal Road Park, Royal Road Park Pool and the Doug King Memorial Tennis Court behind Nasis School to name but a few.
Our building located at 141 School Street houses seniors groups, Adult Literacy, a non profit Boxing Club not to mention our weekly Sunday Bingo. We also rent out our building, the Kinsmen Community Centre, for weddings, fundraisers, dances, etc.
We supply 2 bursaries each year to graduating students of Fredericton High School and Leo Hayes High School.
Check out our Facebook page to see what we have going on – search for Nashwaaksis Kin Club – 100081967971485
WHAT WE DO – NATIONALLY
Kinsmen, Kinette and Kin Clubs across Canada have donated millions of dollars towards finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis, a childhood illness that meant a life expectancy in the past of only 4 years. With the research that has been done with the help of Kin donations, that life expectancy has been extended so that CF suffers are living into their thirties and beyond.
Our other major cause is funding research into finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. One of our past members was instrumental in getting Kin clubs across the Maritimes committed to this fight.
Our clubs also support the Hal Rogers Endowment Fund which funds bursaries for graduating students across Canada. If you are furthering your education, you can apply for $1,000 bursary – clubs get to submit 1 name to our National organization and if chosen, you would receive $1,000 to help with your education costs. Bursary Applications when they become available in January/February each year will be posted to our Facebook page.
Our Building located at 141 School Street is open to the public but the following rules must be followed:
1. The daily operation and control of the Kinsmen Centre shall be under the direction of the Building Administrator. The Building Administrator shall be appointed by the club executive and serve at the pleasure of the club executive.
2. All suggestions, complaints, etc. related to the building are to be brought to the attention of the Building Administrator and it shall be his/her responsibility to deal with such complaints, suggestions, etc.
3. Although our building is open to the public, should you suffer from any one of the symptoms associated with Covid-19, we ask that you not enter our building until you are better.
4. A sanitation station is available at each entrance to the building and anyone entering the building is encouraged to bring and use their own hand sanitizer while in the building.
5. We have two halls available for rental. Any potential renter of a hall in our building is required to sign a rental contract and pay a deposit within a reasonable period of time in advance of the planned event.
6. No outside liquor is allowed in the building or at any event – the building’s bar services are to be used for all functions.
7. There shall be no parking in front of any of the doors at the front of the building so as to restrict the accessibility of same by emergency personnel.
8. Anyone visiting the building shall obey the smoking regulations as amended from time to time by the Province of New Brunswick.
9. Although the Federal Government has legalized marijuana, we have children on site at various times and thus the use of marijuana in the building or on the property at any time is strictly forbidden.
