40th Annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake

It’s a milestone year for Bowl For Kids’ Sake – 40 years of having FUN to HELP KIDS! Challenges relating to COVID-19 continued last year, and we expect those challenges to linger for this year’s event – but with the help of the Berks County community, we can make this milestone year a year to remember!

As we did last year, the 40th Annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake – sponsored by Tompkins VIST Bank – will maintain a virtual side for those interested, but we’ll be bowling those pins down at Berks Lanes and Hiester Lanes again this year! We will continue to maintain COVID-related precautions to help ensure the safety of our participants.

Companies and individuals can help in a number of ways. One way is through Corporate Sponsorship – joining others including Tompkins VIST Bank and others like Penske, Performance Toyota, and more as a Corporate Sponsor. There are three levels: T-shirt Sponsor ($2,500 level), Major Sponsor ($1,000 level), and Assisting Sponsor ($500 level). Companies can contact the agency to learn more about the levels and the marketing benefits.

A second way is that companies and individuals can also help by becoming a Littles Team Sponsor ($300 for full sponsor/$150 for co-sponsor). As a Littles Team Sponsor, a team(s) of Littles and volunteer Bigs will bowl in your name during each of the three bowling days.

A third way, according to Executive Director Jim Smith, is to form your own bowling team and “join us for some FUN to HELP KIDS!” Each team of up to five (5) bowlers is asked to raise a minimum of $300. Each bowler receives a free game of bowling, a BFKS event t-shirt, lunch/snacks/refreshments, and a Thank You envelope with surprises inside. Individual bowlers reaching a level of $150 or more are entered into our Grand Prize drawing ($500 worth of Boscov’s gift cards). Anyone interested in forming a team can call the agency at (610) 373-5544 to secure a BFKS Team packet or register on-line at https://give.classy.org/BerksBFKS2022.

In announcing the 40th Annual event, Executive Director Jim Smith said, “Our mentoring services to our Littles is needed more than ever; thus, we need your support more than ever as well.” According to Smith, the agency’s volunteer Bigs and staff provided more than 12,000 mentoring program hours to nearly 200 Littles last year – and, he said, “We expect to serve even more in 2022.” Smith noted that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County provides its four (4) quality-driven mentoring programs FREE-OF-CHARGE to the Littles thanks to Berks County’s many Defenders of Potential.