This is Edmonton meets people who connect youth with sporting equipment

Enrolling kids and youth in sport is expensive. Depending on the sport and how many kids you're enrolling, it can cost families anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars a year in fees, equipment and transportation. It's no small feat when the price of everything else also seems to be rising.

Luckily in Edmonton, there are people and groups that are stepping up to support youth and students as they pursue sport - and make sure they have the best gear to do it.

11:49Edmontonians step up for sport

In hard times, Edmontonians step up, and recently in the city there have been lots of stories of locals helping out kids and youth so they can access sport. Host Clare Bonnyman shares two stories of people making activity accessible for children and teens in the city.

This week on the This is Edmonton podcast host Clare Bonnyman shares two stories of people making activity accessible for children and teens in the city, so they can do what kids do best: play.

This is Edmonton is posted online every Wednesday. Listen here or get in touch at thisisyeg@cbc.ca.