Canucks Support Children's Hospital Kids

The Canucks are great supporters of BC Children's Hospital. Every year the whole team drops by just before Christmas to meet kids and their families. With H1N1 precautions, we couldn't make it work this year so the Canucks made a video for the kids.

Check it out. 

Wednesday 16 - Give the Gift of Flight

Thanks to the Air Canada Kids' Horizons' Hospital Transportation Program, you can help make it possible for children across Canada to have access to life-saving care, regardless of where they live.

On Wednesday, December 16 Aeroplan will match all Aeroplan Mile Donations to Air Canada Kids' Horizons. Visit www.aeroplan.com/donate and click on Air Canada Kids' Horizons.

Smiles all over as B.C. Children's Hospital picks up $5,400 donation from Futureshop.

VANCOUVER, B.C - A $5,400 donation from Futureshop employees will help cheer the mood a little when Santa visits B.C. Children’s Hospital this Christmas.

The Children’s Hospital received a donation of $4,400 gift card that can be used to buy all kinds of small electronic gifts for kids and another $1,000 to use as the hospital wants, said Futureshop public relations officer Elliott Chun.

“Nine Future Shop stores in the province including Richmond, Burnaby, Surrey, Prince George to Chilliwack and Kelowna joined forces to raise this amount to donate to the B.C. Children’sHospital,” he said. 

“A number of stores in BC are supporters of the BC Children’s Hospital and have been providing support over years through initiatives like the Build-a-bear program. This year, they wanted to appeal to all ages of hospitalized children and decided to donate electronics,” Chun said.

“ Instead of collecting the gifts on their own, they wanted to give the hospital staff the opportunity to shop at Future Shop and hand-pick what the kids want,” said Chun.

Lace up for Kids

For the second year in a row, UBC REC organizers pulled off a fun and successful fundraiser for BC Children's Hospital and its Rare Disease Foundation fund. With over 1100 supporters participating in the event at the Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre, Lace up for Kids raised $62,000.

Bullet Racing for Children Event

The Rolex 24 at Daytona, next scheduled for January 30-31, 2010, is a 24-hour sports car endurance race held annually at the historic Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Rolex 24 hrs race is the toughest and most demanding twice-around-the-clock challenge in North America. This year, the Bullet Racing team has set a goal to complete the race (that is around 700 laps) and in doing so support BC children.

As they fund-race for BC Children's Hospital Foundation, your support is essential - Donate or make a per lap pledge online www.bcchf.net/bulletracing.

Race for Life benefits oncology patients at Children's Hospital

The Race For Life started in 1981 when a 12-year-old BMX racer, Todd Kingsbury from Michigan, discovered he had Leukemia.  When Todd's friends and the American Bicycle Association learned of his diagnosis they organized Race For Life and signed up over 130 tracks to participate and raise funds.  Since that first event the ABA has held a series of yearly Race For Life events nationwide to help in the fight to find a cure for young oncology patients.

On a local level this year's ABA BMX Canadian Nationals, which took place at Chilliwack Heritage Park on October 9, 2009, raised $30,239 through Race For Life events to support BC Children's Hospital oncology programs.

The Search for a Super Community begins!

Somewhere in BC, our first Super Community is about to be discovered. Maybe it's your class or school, your workplace, your hockey team, your parent group or your neighbourhood - any group that's important to you.

Show us how you support a new BC Children's Hospital, and you could see your community in the newspaper and on TV! Find out all the information at www.supercommunity.ca!

Smile Cookies are Back!

Enjoy a cookie and help make a difference with Tim Hortons Smile Cookies available from September 21st to 27th, 2009.

The entire proceeds from the sales of these delicious, chocolate chunk Smile Cookies are donated to local charities, hospitals and community programs from coast to coast.

It's a great cookie for a good cause and you can help just by indulging your sweet tooth.  And when the Smile Cookies are gone, the difference they make in the community will last forever.

Pennies for Pounds

On August 4, Jordan Liberman bench pressed 250 pounds in World Police and Fire Games’ and raised $7900 for BC Children’s Hospital's Heart Centre.

Jordan was inspired by his son, a patient of the Heart Centre. Thank you to his family, friends and supporters who helped Jordan far surpass his original $750 goal.

The 30th Avenue Car Show

Barry and Ruth Adair, with the help of their family, friends and neighbours, have gone the extra mile with their annual neighbourhood car show. With the help of local businesses who donated silent-auction items they raised $8354 for the Campaign for BC Children.

Wildland Firefighters trade hard labour for kids' health, Houston BC

The Nadina Mountain Unit Fire Crew’s 3rd annual Firefighters for Kids silent auction in Houston, BC was a great success. Raising $5,895 over the past three years the Crew has made a significant contribution toward the Hospital's most urgent needs. The lucky silent auction winner received eight hours of labour from the hard working crew of 20 wildland firefighters, putting them to work falling trees, clearing land, making firewood and cleaning up old children's tree forts. Thank you Nadina Mountain Unit Crew for being Superheroes in your community!

Junkology - Recycling for Kids

On Saturday, May 30, Oliver Samonte and his family turned Junkology into Funology - all in the name of BC's kids. Oliver,with the help of his son, Nathan, turned empty containers and milk jugs into penguins, swans, and more at Kokopelli Cafe and Stong's market. Their creative works of art raised $185 through donations to the Hospital.

Elks Lodges Donate $5,000

On Saturday, May 23, 2009 the Burnaby Elks Lodge #497 and Burnaby Royal Purple Lodge #260 donated $5,000 to BC Children’s Hospital.

In photo: President Doreen Peniuk (Royal Purple Lodge #260), Aaron Sanderson (BC Children’s Hospital Foundation), and President Wally Govet (Elks Lodge #497)

For Shane and Margaret Mayer of Penticton, raising money for BC Children's Hospital not only helps them honour the life of their son, Calvin, who passed away last November after being born with a complex congenital heart defect, it also helps them show their appreciation for the Hospital’s staff. “I guess the reason Shane and I feel so strongly about Children’s is the care our family received during our stay. [They] were so kind to us and truly did everything they could to help save our son’s life,” says Calvin’s mother, Margaret.

Shane & Margaret have already hosted several fundraising events in the Penticton area, including one golf tournament, a scavenger hunt, and various bottle and penny drives. To date, they have raised approximately $2,000 in Calvin’s memory, and hope to add to this total following their upcoming golf tournament (planned for July 25) before traveling to Vancouver next Fall (around the anniversary of Calvin’s passing) to present the Hospital with the final total.

For more information about their past and upcoming events please join the Calvin Zachary Mayer Memorial Fund Facebook group.
 

The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
Joins our Growing League of Superheroes!

On April 14, 2009 BC Children's Hospital Foundation announced a partnership with the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group. Under the partnership, Pattison Broadcast Group stations will support the foundation in its efforts to promote the $200-million Campaign for BC Children around the province. As campaign radio partner, Broadcast Group stations will run a series of public service announcements featuring campaign information, as well as featuring children from around BC who have received care at the hospital.

With 19 stations across the province, the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group gives the hospital access to a host of listeners. More than 67 per cent of the 75,000 children who come to BC children’s hospital each year live outside the City of Vancouver. The Pattison stations have enormous potential to provide coordinated radio coverage to reach more of the communities served by the hospital!

For more information on the campaign, click here.

Watch a video and learn more on Ledcor’s commitment to child health.

Thank You Ledcor Group

BC Children’s Hospital is excited to announce that Ledcor, together with the Dave Lede Family Charitable Foundation, is donating $5 million dollars to BC Children’s Hospital for the Hospital’s new Ledcor Emergency Department.

From their earliest days in 1947, when Bill Lede set up shop in the oil patches of Leduc, Alberta Ledcor has always been a company rooted in family and community. This tradition continued and grew through the thousands of Ledcor employees working across North America — men and women raising their families and shaping their communities.

The $5 million dollar donation is a welcome first step in improving caregivers ability to help the 40,000 children helped by the Emergency Department every year.