Overview

The purpose of the Competition Improvement Program (CIP) is to help Event Organizers improve and expand their competition sites, which in turn will improve and enhance the sport of Eventing in Ontario for competitors at all levels. It is available to all Organizers with events listed in the
current year Omnibus.
The Board of Directors of the OEA reviews and revises this funding program on a periodic
basis. It will continue to be in effect as long as there are sufficient funds to support it.

The Program is broken down into three different sections:

Part A – Course Design
Part B – Site Maintenance and Improvement
Part C – Frangible Devices
Part D – EV105 Grants *2023 Only*

The funding period each year is November 1st to October 31st. Reimbursable expenses must be within this time period; they may not carry over from year to year.
All requests must be supported by a completed application form and expenditure receipts/invoices and must be submitted by October 31st of each year.

Applications & Deadlines

Application part A, B and C:

All requests must be supported by a completed application form and expenditure receipts/invoices, and must be submitted by October 31st of each year.

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Program Descriptions

All claims under Parts A and B must be substantiated by receipts/invoices. See “Obligations of the OEA and Organizer” for further requirements.

Part A: Course Design

50% to a maximum of $750 for the costs of:

  • A certified cross country course designer or certified cross country course builder to analyze existing courses, design new course layouts, outline steps to bring courses up to standard and develop a plan to implement the required improvements.
  • This funding can be claimed once every year.

 

50% to a maximum of $200 for the cost of:

  • A certified stadium course designer.
  • Organizers who are certified designers/builders are not eligible to claim under this section for their own courses.
  • This funding can be claimed for every event during the season.

Part B: Annual Improvements

50% to a maximum of $2,000 for the costs of:

  • New cross country jumps or refurbishing of existing jumps
  • Improvement to cross country footing, including aeration
  • New stadium jumps or refurbishing of existing jumps
  • Improvement to stadium footing
  • Improvement to all warm-up areas
  • Construction of Judges booths for stadium and dressage
  • Replacement/refurbishing of dressage rings & letter markers
  • Improvement to dressage footing
  • Items (either mandatory or recommended) required for the improvement of safety such as frangible pins, plastic jump cups and pins, breakaway flag clamps, shatter-proof safety flags
  • Organizers may not claim for their own labour for any activity eligible under this section

 

100% to a maximum of $500 for first time Organizers for the costs of:

  • Clipboards, radios, stopwatches, whistles, PA system
  • This funding can only be claimed in the first year of a new event.

Part C: Frangible Devices

  • 100% to a maximum of $500 for the cost of frangible devices (pins or MIM kits). Incremental $500 (total of $1,000) available for Organizers who purchase and install $3,000 worth of frangible devices in year.

    Reimbursement under Part C requires photos of the installed frangible devices in addition to expenditure receipts/invoices.

Part D: EV105 grants *2023 and 2024 only*

EV105 is now widely viewed nationally and internationally as a vital division for preparing horses and riders for upper-level eventing by promoting them safely through to the higher divisions. To support this division in Ontario, the OEA Board approved a program for 2023 to assist Organizers who are willing to invest in building new jumps specifically with EV105 in mind. In December 2023, this program was extended for one year and amended to allow Organizers to grandfather in years that they have already run EV105, when calculating their mandatory 5-year commitment to that level.

Part D of the CIP Program will reimburse 100% to a maximum of $5,000 for the cost of materials to build unique jumps designed to complement existing EV105 courses or to create new EV105 courses. The grants will be allocated to Organizers who submit invoices incurred in 2023 or 2024 or applications for building in 2025.

These one-time EV105 grants are repayable in full in the event that an Organizer ceases to run the EV105 division within 5 years of receiving the grant. Organizers are entitled to take into account years that they have already run the EV105 division when calculating this mandatory 5-year commitment to the division.