Some of the many items for sale:
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Garage Sale 2025!
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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Music Bingo
Back by popular demand, our next fundraising event is a Music Bingo night at the Fernwood Inn on Wednesday, April 16th – if you’ve been to one you know how incredibly fun they are, if not you owe it to yourself to come and have a fantastic time! You get to have an evening full of fun, maybe win a prize AND help do some good in the world, all for one ticket to Music Bingo!
Prizes: A wonderful array of choices that will include Gift Certificates to Levantine (the wonderful restaurant opened by the first family we sponsored in 2016), some gorgeous hand made pottery, spa gift certificates, and much much more!
Winners get to choose their prize.
Increase your chances to win!!! Additional Bingo cards can be purchased for $5 each / 3 for $10. Cash only please, we have no electronic payment option.
Get your ticket soon! This event always sells out!
Tickets available on Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/GherkinsBingo25
Date: Monday, February 17, 2025 (Family day)
Time: Noon
Location: 4391 Torquay Dr. Unit 16.
Agenda
- Call to order
- Approval of the Agenda
- Report of the board
- Financial Report
- Election to the board
- Other business
- Adjournment
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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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Music Bingo
The Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Group is hosting a music bingo on Wednesday Oct 9, 2024, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM at the Fernwood Inn, to raise funds for the support of a newcomer family of five.Music bingo is a fun and exciting take on the classic game of bingo, with songs replacing the numbers on a bingo card. The host will play music, and if you have that song listed on your card, you tick it off. The same rules apply as regular bingo – get a line, call BINGO! and win a great prize.
Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for each of the two rounds of bingo. Winners will select their preferred prize.
Lots of great prizes!
Your $30 entry ticket gives you one bingo card for each round of bingo. Bring cash – extra cards will be available for $3 each; 2 for $5.
Doors open at 7:00 and the bingo fun begins at 7:30. Reservations are recommended if you decide to come earlier than that to enjoy dinner and drinks before the games begin (250-412-2001). Just let Fernwood Inn know that you are joining the Music Bingo event, so that you are seated in the appropriate area.
Saturday, August 24th 9am – 12pm &
BONUS Sunday, August 25 from noon – 3pm
1553 & 1557 Granada Crescent
Find us here: https://goo.gl/maps/nq8ozwMpwGbqmzsQ8
Mark your calendars for the best garage sale of the summer: our neighbourhood garage sale supporting the Gherkins, aka the Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Community Group (GHRSCG) – all
proceeds to be used to bring a refugee family to Victoria.
Saturday August 24th, 9 am to noon(ish) at 1553 and 1557 Granada Crescent AND we added Sunday August 25, from noon to 3pm.
We will be rounding up wonderful items of all kinds from our supporters – kitchen gadgets, books, board games, and MORE!
PLUS by popular demand we will be offering delicious Syrian snacks (Saturday only)!
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T-shirts and totes are back!
New colour, long sleeve shirts, new bag design in time for holiday gifting
Our t-shirt and tote sale is back!
This t shirt and tote design shows the heart of BC, caring for ourselves and extending that to others. Written in English, Lekwungen, French, Chinese and Arabic. We believe the shirt reflects our strong belief in the value and importance of care and compassion for our fellow humans.
The Gherkins mission is to enable newcomer families to feel wanted and appreciated, to become Canadian, connected with, contributing to, and thriving in the local community; and to live an independent, fulfilling, and comfortable life.
The sales of these totes and tshirts are a fundraiser for the Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Constituency Group (the Gherkins) in Victoria BC. We are currently supporting a family group of 8 from Syria who began their new lives in Victoria in the Spring. The kids are in school, the adults are all getting English language instruction and some have entered the workforce. This is great progress towards independent and full lives in Canada.
When Syrian refugees come to Canada they must repay to the Federal Government the cost of their travel to get here. We believe they will have a better start to a safe and secure life if they do not begin it with a large debt. To help them, we are fundraising to offset some or all of the $15-$20,000 debt these 8 people will be required to repay.
This striking design has been generously developed and donated to us by Noah Crowder. To see more of Noah’s work please go to his website: noahcrowderdesigns.com
Visit our shopify store here: https://gherkins-care.myshopify.com/
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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!
