NEWS RELEASE
WOW-LIVING BRADFORD
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Tim Hortons restaurant owners and guests helped to break a new Smile Cookie record by raising $21,376.50 for Bradford's local non-profit organization WOW-Living, assisting with their new Truly Affordable Housing Project.
This year in Bradford, local Tim Hortons restaurant owner, Perry Thornton, the volunteers from WOW-Living, members of the organization, and guests helped raise $21,376.50 to support WOW-Living's Truly Affordable Housing Project.
WOW-Living's mission is to provide people living in poverty with the tools and resources they need to strengthen stability and increase resiliency. WOW-Living offers a Warming Centre - Out of the Cold Cafe, hot meals, community support, A Hand Up Christmas Wishlist for Bradford residents, clothing at A Hand Up Clothing Room, and is currently working on a Truly "Affordable" Housing Project. For more information on WOW-Living's Truly "Affordable" Housing Project, please visit WOW Living | Truly 'Affordable' Housing (wow-living.ca)
WOW-Living invests every minute and dollar donated intentionally into the lives of the people they’re serving. This may include covering a few nights at a hotel for a homeless friend, putting gas in someone's car to get them to a shelter, driving a friend to an appointment, helping one of our friends move, fill out forms, navigate the welfare system or buying them a cup of coffee, groceries or a meal. Financial donations may also go toward the cost of training, operating costs associated with the Out of the Cold Cafe, and other affordable housing initiatives.
Cassidy Hilliard (Director of Events/Galas): "All of us at WOW-Living are so grateful to Perry Thornton, Tim Hortons, and the overwhelming support of the Bradford community during this years Smile Cookie campaign. Without each and every one of you who purchased smile cookies, we wouldn't be able to help increase the stability in the lives of WOW-Living's guests and provide greater support for those in need. I would also like to give a huge shout out to those who volunteered to decorate cookies, stand with the cookie cutouts in the drive-thru, collect garbage from customers in line while answering any questions people may have had about WOW-Living, and for just being AWESOME! Thank you all once again!"
Smile Cookie Campaign Facts
- The first-ever Smile Cookie campaign in 1996 raised funds to support Hamilton Children's Hospital. Since then, the annual charitable campaign has raised a total of more than $111 million for charities and organizations that are selected every year by Tim Hortons restaurant owners.
- Nationally, Tim Hortons restaurant owners support over 600 local charities and community groups through the Smile Cookie campaign
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