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NOTICE – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Community Group

When: Thursday, January 29, 6:00 PM

Where: Please check your email for details. All members have received a notice.

Who: All members of the Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Community Group are welcome to attend and vote at this meeting.

Agenda:

(a) call to order;

(b) presentation of the 2025 financial statements of the Society;

(c) report of the board;

(d) nomination and election of directors of the board;

(e) other business arising out of a report of the directors not requiring the passing of a special resolution;

(f) adjournment

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Happy Holidays from the Gherkins!

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Garage Sale Grand Total

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.

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Music Bingo is back!

Click Here for tickets!

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Garage Sale 2025!

Some of the many items for sale:

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Donations needed News

Our Refugee Friends Have Arrived!

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.

  1. 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

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NOTICE of Gordon Head Refugee Sponsorship Community Group Society (“The Gherkins”) Annual General Meeting

Date: Monday, February 17, 2025 (Family day)

Time: Noon

Location: 4391 Torquay Dr. Unit 16.

Agenda

  1. Call to order
  2. Approval of the Agenda
  3. Report of the board
  4. Financial Report
  5. Election to the board
  6. Other business
  7. 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!