Tim Hortons Foundation Camps

Tim Hortons® Foundation Camps represents Tim Hortons largest community investment. Established in 1974 in honour of Tim Horton's love for children, its signature programs are intentionally designed to help youth aged 12-16 from disadvantaged circumstances discover the strengths existing within themselves.

Over the past four decades, the Tim Hortons Foundation Camps have supported more than 300,000 youth from disadvantaged circumstances. Through a multi-year, camp-based program, participants learn skills like leadership, resilience, and responsibility, empowering them to believe in their own potential and change their stories for the better. Attending Tim Hortons Foundation Camps comes at absolutely no cost to youth or their families.

With seven camps in North America that run year-round School and Summer Programs, youth are supported to thrive when they return home, to excel in post-secondary education, to succeed at work and to contribute positively to their communities. The impact of these programs is sustained and deepened through repeated experiences; campers are invited to return annually through their influential early teen years, where they realize the positive compounding effects of participating over time.

Tim Hortons restaurant owners and The TDL Group Corp. are proud supporters of Tim Hortons Foundation Camps. Our largest fundraising initiative is Camp Day, a 24-hour period when restaurant owners donate the proceeds of all coffee sales, specially designed Camp Day bracelets and public donations to the Foundation.

$12.4M

RAISED BY RESTAURANT OWNERS ACROSS CANADA AND THE US IN 24 HOURS ACROSS CANADA AND THE US IN SUPPORT OF CAMP DAY IN 2021.

During Camp Day in 2021, owners and guests raised $12.4 million CAD. In addition, funding for the Foundation comes from donations made by many valued suppliers, individual donors, and public donations collected year-round in coin boxes and through a new tap to give™ campaign in Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada.

Tim Hortons Foundation Camps announced a newly cemented partnership with Justice Fund Toronto to help break down barriers for underserved youth in the community. Tim Hortons Foundation Camps and Justice Fund Toronto will work together to ensure more youth have opportunities to build foundational skills and behaviours to become agents of social change and to support their successful transition into adulthood. Tims Camps will support the development of specific programming and the opportunity to host Justice Fund Toronto youth at the Tim Horton Onondaga Farms in St. George, Ontario.

Learn more about the Tim Hortons Foundation Camps


Timbits Minor Sports Program

Timbits Minor Sports Program

Learning a new sport, making friends and having fun is what being a kid is all about. The Timbits Minor Sports Program is a community-oriented sponsorship program that provides access and opportunities for kids aged four to nine to play house-league sports in their community. Tim Hortons restaurant owners supported more than 290000 children to play hockey and soccer across Canada and the US. The sponsorship includes jerseys, participation medals and a Timbits player gift for each player.

290K

CHILDREN REGISTERED TO BE SUPPORTED BY TIM HORTONS THROUGH THE TIMBITS MINOR SPORTS PROGRAM ACROSS CANADA AND THE US IN 2021.


Smile Cookie

Everyone loves a smiling chocolate chunk cookie – especially when it’s for a good cause. Every year, through this unique program, Tim Hortons restaurant owners sell special Smile Cookies for a full week and donate 100% of the proceeds to local charities, hospitals, and community programs.

$12.2M

RAISED A RECORD BREAKING $12.2 MILLION CAD IN JUST ONE WEEK FOR 600+ CHARITIES, HOSPITALS, AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN CANADA AND THE US

Tim Hortons first launched a local Smile Cookie campaign in 1996 to help raise funds for the Hamilton’s Children Hospital in Ontario by local restaurant owners. The now national 2021 Smile Cookie campaign raised a record breaking $12.2 million CAD in just one week for more than 600 charities, hospitals and community groups in Canada and the US.

Smile Cookie

Supporting Indigenous Communities

$1.6M

RAISED TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ACROSS CANADA

Tim Hortons is also dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion in society and in sport. In 2021, Tim Hortons and its 1,500 restaurant owners across Canada were proud to announce that more than $1.6 million CAD was raised through a fundraising campaign in support of residential school survivors in Canada. This fundraiser was created by restaurant owners in support of Indigenous communities across the country after the shocking discovery of children buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops, British Columbia residential school. The funds were donated to the Orange Shirt Society and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.


Supporting Inclusive Sport

$815K+

DONATED TO NATIONAL SPORTS PROGRAMS THROUGH PARTNERS LIKE THE HOCKEY CANADA FOUNDATION AND THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS

Tim Hortons also donated over $215,000 CAD to the Hockey Canada Foundation’s Hockey Is Hers program. The funds were generated from 100 per cent of net proceeds of a Tim Hortons Hockey Barbie® sold in restaurants. The Hockey is Hers campaign is focused on recruitment and retention of girls in hockey, the development of female coaching, and supporting Canada's National Women's Team. And earlier this year, Tim Hortons raised nearly $600,000 CAD by selling a limited-edition Choose to Include donut, where 100 per cent of the proceeds were donated directly to Special Olympics Canada to help empower over 41,000 athletes to reach their full potential – in sport, and in life.


Tim Hortons Coffee Partnership

Tim Hortons Coffee For Communities Program

The Tim Hortons Coffee For Communities Program was established in 2005, with a goal of improving the lives of coffee farmers, their families and the entire community within the regions where we source coffee for Tim Hortons. Its philosophy is consistent with the brand's long history of giving back to communities. Through the Tim Hortons Coffee For Communities Program , small holder farmers are empowered to build their businesses with improved agricultural practices and entrepreneurship skills.

30,000+

COFFEE FARMERS HAVE BEEN SUPPORTED THROUGH THE TIM HORTONS COFFEE PARTNERSHIP

The Tim Hortons Coffee for Communities Program has worked with nearly 30,000 farmers and their families, of which over 7,000 farmers are women. This work has resulted in over 28,000 hectares of land under sustainable management in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Tanzania and the strengthening of over 200 producer organizations. In addition, over 7,800 young adults in coffee growing communities have been reached through the Generations program where they gain exposure and skills training in a broad array of local career opportunities.