Our September garage sale raised a grand total of $4,378.51! We appreciate all of your fantastic donations and are grateful for everyone who came to purchase art, toys, kitchen gadgets, and everything in between!
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Music Bingo Success!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our October Music Bingo event. We raised a total of $1955 thanks to your generosity! Keep an eye out for more exciting events to come.
Hello to all of our wonderful supporters.
We wanted to let you know that our next sponsorship has begun. A lovely young couple from Venezuela arrived on June 4th. We had about 10 days notice before their arrival and in that time, thanks to some hard work and extremely generous people, we were able to find and furnish an apartment. They are now settling into their new home.
We will be running several fundraisers in the next year as we need to raise at least $14,000, so please stay tuned for upcoming events! In the meantime, we can (and would greatly appreciate!) donations in two ways.
- Donate through the Inter-Cultural Association (ICA)
Because this is a sponsorship with the ICA you can donate to our sponsorship through them and receive a charitable donation. Go to this web page: DONATE TO THE GHERKINS SPONSORSHIP scroll down the “Constituent Group” menu and pick CG 225-25 – it’s the last one on the list.
2. E-Transfer
If you want to donate directly to the Gherkins, which gives us the ability to help with the small extras that can really help them settle more easily, you can send e-transfers to donate@gherkins.ca. We can’t offer a charitable receipt for donations made this way as we don’t have that ability yet.
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Latest Garage Sale Success
Thank you to everyone who came to our big garage sale, braving the rain on day 1 and/or popping in on the spontaneous day 2 — you helped us raise over $3,000 in sales, food sales, and donations!
We are ever so thankful to the many who donated items, those who made food, and everyone who came out to volunteer.
We’d like to give a special shout out to our many kind neighbours for going above and beyond – you donated, purchased, hosted your own sales, and several of you heroically offered canopies to enable the sale to go on despite the rainstorm!!!
We had a grand time, and we think everyone who came by did too!
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Garage Sale success
Thank you to everyone who came to our big garage sale — we raised $2,600 in sales, food sales, and donations.
We are especially thankful to the many who donated items, those who made food, the neighbours who hosted a sale at the same time to boost the event, and everyone who came out to volunteer.
We had a blast, and we think everyone who came by had a great time too!
Come one, come all to our neighbourhood garage sale supporting the Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship group.
Saturday Aug 27 from 9 am to noon(ish)
at 1553 and 1557 Granada Crescent … plus 5 other houses on Granada Crescent!
Find us here: https://goo.gl/maps/nq8ozwMpwGbqmzsQ8
We have kitchen items, books, gadgets, sports items, and so many awesome board games and MORE. PLUS sweet and savory snacks for sale! All proceeds at 1553 and 1557 Granada sale go to refugee sponsorship.
The fundraiser sale is joined by **five additional houses** on Granada Cr who are holding sales at the same time to help us make this a high traffic event!
Check out the photos below… this is just a taste of what we have on sale!
The Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Constituent Group (“the Gherkins”) are planning a garage sale! We hope to see you at the sale on August 27th (9am to noon) at 1553 and 1557 Granada Crescent for some great bargains. Last time we held a garage sale (2019) we raised $2,000 for refugee sponsorship.
We are ready for another fun day of fantastic deals, treasure hunting, and chatting with neighbours and friends. Not only that… our popular snack sale will also return! Savories and sweets, including some Syrian treats, will be on sale for shoppers to enjoy.
Do you have items you would like to donate to the sale?
Bring us your small appliances, puzzles and games, kitchen items, toys, tchotchkes, and other items. Perhaps they no longer bring you joy. Perhaps one batch of homemade pasta was enough. It is time for them to bring someone else joy (and pasta), and by passing them along you will also support a refugee family settle in our community.
Drop off your donations on August 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19, from 1 – 3 pm, at 1557 Granada Crescent (Eulala’s place)
We will donate unsold items to charity.
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The family has arrived
The Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Group is thrilled to announce that our sponsored families have arrived and moved into their new homes.
In late February we received word we should prepare for arrival and in March we received news the families would be flying to Canada in April. This sparked a flurry of preparations for their arrival. Like anyone moving to Victoria, finding housing was our biggest challenge. But we are happy to say that after some stops and starts, the families are settled into their homes. The children had their first taste of school and everyone is starting to learn English.
We had many donations of furniture and kitchen wares from our community of supporters, and were able to provide all the needed furnishings, as well as bicycles for the kids, school supplies, and a laptop for each family.
We are especially grateful for the very generous donation of free dental services from Dr. Prevost, Megson Fitzpatrick for providing two years’ tenant insurance, gardening supplies from Gardenworks, as well as a donation from Megan’s Hairstyling. Science Venture not only donated summer camp spots for each of the four children, their staff made a special effort to welcome and include their participation as they navigated a new town, new games, new friends in an unfamiliar language.
Garbage may not be the most glamorous topic, but on April 22-24, the Gherkins turned trash into treasure with our Spring Fling in the Bin fundraiser.
Supporters were invited to purchase tickets for each garbage bag (or equivalent sized item) they deposited in our big bin. We sold out 170 tickets and raised $1600. (As a bonus several of us were inspired to do our spring cleaning!)
This fundraiser was made more successful due to our supportive bin supplier… so a big shout out to Bin There Done That Victoria! Not only did they waive fees, they delivered the bin and advised us on how to manage the event for success.
Join the Gherkins in learning to say Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe in English, Lekwungen, Chinese, French, and Arabic!
100% of proceeds from this fundraiser go to our next sponsorship our three related refugee families from Syria/
Don’t forget to support the fundraiser: buy a shirt or tote!
BUY A SHIRT
Thanks Victoria and Joni for your work editing this beautiful video!
Shout out to the translators who made sure the tshirts are correct: Joe Seward (Lekwungen), Marie Chemel-Lefebvre (French), Montaser Aljundy (Arabic), Rachel Yuen and Linda Yang (Chinese).
T-shirt design 100% donated by the lovely and talented Noah Crowder Designs
Tshirts are locally printed in Victoria with printing and promotional materials generously supported by MegaScreen productions and Island Blue Print