Ensuring Brant Continues Support for Lansdowne Kids
Brantford, ON - Brantford’s loudest fundraiser rides again! Volunteer community group Ensuring Brant is continuing the 20-year tradition of fundraising support for Lansdowne Children’s Centre for child development, organizing the 21st Charity Motorcycle Ride for Lansdowne Kids, to roll out from Brimich Logistics on Saturday, June 28.
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Brian Kinrade, born, raised & resident of Brantford and multi-time rider in the charity event, is leading the volunteer group made up of past riders, Lansdowne client families, and supporters of Grand Erie’s children’s treatment center.
“Some of us got together last August to talk about what we could do to continue the event. With 20 years of history, the blueprint was already there to host a successful fundraiser. We just needed some guidance to keep it going,” Kinrade said.
In 2024, Lansdowne Children’s Centre Foundation celebrated a grand finale ride at the 20th anniversary and announced that it would step aside as the event organizer. It was a group of riders and families, passionate about the legacy of the event and its contribution to children and youth in the community, who kick-started the momentum to keep it rolling.
“I personally didn’t want to see the ride for Lansdowne kids end. My kids received help with speech from that organization, and they’ve now grown up to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces and in our Brantford Hospital,” Kinrade said.
Through his own experience, and the stories of other Lansdowne families, Kinrade has experienced the incredible impact that Lansdowne staff and services have on a child’s development.
“The confidence and belief that Lansdowne inspires in children and their families, its life changing. I hope each of our riders and donors appreciates the small miracles of a child's first words, or first steps, and embraces the overwhelming joy of seeing ‘the impossible’ shattered by belief, and a relentless pursuit of a child's potential.”
Event details are available online at: www.lansdownecentre.ca/cmr
ABOUT ENSURING BRANT
Ensuring Brant is a not-for-profit community association, raising funds through events and sponsorship in support of community initiatives. The group originated from the amalgamation of two former neighborhood associations, in East Ward Echo Place neighborhood association & the H.U.B. With private funds and city grants, the group has previously provided community-building events, including Music in the Park, cooking skills classes for kids, self-defense courses and a local business fun fair.
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ABOUT CHARITY MOTORCYCLE RIDE, Brantford’s loudest fundraiser
Founded over 20 years ago by rider and fundraiser Bob Caissie, the Charity Motorcycle Ride (CMR) is an annual fundraising event in support of Lansdowne Children's Centre Foundation, and the programs and services accessed by infants, children and youth with physical, communication and/or developmental additional needs/special needs.
In 2025, the ride will start and finish at Brimich Logistics, 15 Kraemer’s Way in Brantford, off Highway-403 at Oak Park Road. The event includes a continental breakfast, hot lunch, live music, and a 90-minute police-escorted tour leaving Brantford to travel along the Grand River into Haldimand County, returning across the north of Norfolk County into Brant County and Brantford.
Brantford Police lead the ride, often joined by motorcycle riding police escorts from other regions including Waterloo, Hamilton and London. Hundreds of riders join the ride for Lansdowne Kids each year, rolling like thunder across the region of Grand Erie.
Registration and check-in will open at 9:00 a.m. in the morning, and at 11:00 a.m. kickstands will go up to begin the ride.
ABOUT LANSDOWNE CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Lansdowne Children's Centre for child development is a highly accredited children's treatment center (CTC) and SmartStart Hub, connecting caregivers with resources, services and supports, for infants, children, and youth with physical, communication, and/or developmental additional/special needs.
Lansdowne Children's Centre supports thousands of children, caregivers and families, as well as childcare centers and schools across the region of Grand Erie, including Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk counties, Six Nations of the Grand River, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Lansdowne operates sites in Brantford, Caledonia, Dunnville and Simcoe.
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