On September 19th an amazing team of volunteers from Interior Savings participated in a Day of Caring® at Garden Gate. Garden Gate has a 2.8 acre site which includes a green house, veggie garden, and kitchen/classroom. They focus on encouraging healthy eating and active living for people with mental health issues and addictions. On top of personal benefits, [...]
A few weeks ago over 20 TD managers based out of the BC northern interior and Yukon district volunteered for a Day of Caring® at the Mount Paul Way Food Centre. These community oriented individuals traded in the office for a garden and pens for a shovel, while putting in a hard days work at the [...]
Last week a fantastic group of volunteers from RBC weeded the JUMP garden on Clapperton Street. JUMP is a unique and completely volunteer driven organization made up of people with the lived experiences of homelessness, disability, addiction and physical and mental health challenges. They have served 1250 home cooked meals for 60,000 people. JUMP [...]
Last week we had the opportunity to work with some volunteers from RBC to clean and paint a new office space for A Way Home Kamloops. The volunteers painted the walls the “colour of youth homelessness” – a bright orange that is also the colour of A Way Home Kamloops’ logo. A Way Home [...]
Volunteers from Allnorth had their first Day of Caring® last week. More that 15 volunteers cleaned up the Brocklehurst Neighbourhood Club and built a deck railing for the John Tod Centre. The Boys and Girls Club aims to provide safe, supportive places for children to experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships and [...]
Volunteers from RBC helped the Family Tree Centre paint their fences. Not only did five amazing volunteers give their time to paint the fence but RBC also donated a $1000 grant to the Kamloops Family Resource Society, RBC offered the foundation grant in honour of their volunteer time with the Family Tree Centre. The [...]
Last week we worked with a great group of volunteers from KPMG to brighten up the Mount Paul United Church by painting the halls and laying some fresh flooring. KPMG brought so many volunteers to help out that we were able to help the Mount Paul Food Centre next door as well! Mount Paul [...]
Last week a group of fantastic volunteers from People in Motion came to help out their neighbour across the street at the Royal Social House. The volunteers made an amazing amount of progress; in only three hours they painted two bathrooms a beautiful bright blue and touched up the beige walls in the dining area. [...]
Last week we had the opportunity to have a Day of Caring® for Children’s Circle Daycare. Children's Circle Daycare Society is a community-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing quality early learning and child care services to the families of Kamloops. Children’s Circle Daycare Society was originally created to operate a child care centre close [...]
Yesterday, a group of volunteers from Fulton & Co. participated in a Day of Caring® as a part of the United Way’s Trading Up Program – a program engaging volunteers in helping keep seniors in their homes through support on yard cleanup, yard waste pickup and small home repairs. These volunteers came out and [...]
