Updates
Thanks for your support!
We raised a little over $12,500 at the Dinner/Auction April 28! This is awesome! Thanks to those who organized, cooked, donated, set-up, cleaned up, bought tickets, and gave their time and/or money to this great cause. It would never go forward without all your support!
Win/Win Fundraiser Sale
Riverside Music in Trenton is holding a “Win/Win” sale to benefit the Frankford Youth Centre, starting April 19 at 2pm. Come out to support our youth centre and get some great deals (40% off!!!). The more you buy the more benefit for the youth centre!
http://www.facebook.com/riversidemusictrenton
Fundraising Banquet and Auction
The 1st annual Frankford Youth Centre Banquet will be held on Saturday, April 28th at 6:00pm in the Frankford Lion’s Centre (at the arena). There will be:
- a full roast beef dinner
- a silent auction
- live music by Matt & friends
- a live auction
Tickets are $40 each – $20 for the meal, $20 for a tax receipt. Contact Lois Thompson or Mary Fagan to purchase tickets. If you need their contact info call the Frankford Community Free Methodist Church at 398-6386.
We’re Moving Ahead!
At our last board meeting we decided we have enough money pledged on a monthly basis to go ahead with starting something run by volunteers. This is an exciting step for us because it means we are this much closer to opening the doors!
We are still collecting funds – monthly pledges are most needed – to fund hiring a staff person for the centre. Our hope is that getting something in motion using volunteers will help show that this is something our town really needs and bring in the last bit of fundraising that we need.
We have not yet set a start date, but we are hoping to get something going as soon as possible. In the meantime we are finishing up our policy binder and getting job descriptions completed so that we can begin recruiting and training volunteers. We are also going to need help finishing up the reno’s on the King St. house we will be occupying.
If any of these areas of need spark your interest and you would like to help, please contact us!
Donations Online!
We are now able to take donations online through PayPal! This is an exciting development that we hope will help make it easy for people to give to this project. Our goal is for as much of this as possible to be funded directly by our community, for our community, and we hope people will see this project as a worthwhile cause for some of their charitable giving.
PayPal is a well established and secure company for facilitating online transactions, and all donations are tax-deductible. Options are available for people to give either a one-time donation or a recurring monthly donation. PayPal can take donations from a credit card, or can link securely with a person’s bank account to transfer the funds directly.
Let us know what you think!
Location!!!
NEWS, NEWS!!! We have a location for the Youth Centre! It is 11 King Dr. – the old brick house across from the LCBO. It is currently being renovated by the owner – a new roof was just put on and some work is now being done inside (wiring, etc). We will be using the main floor, approx. 1200 square feet. Here is a picture from before the new roof was put on.
Hooray!
Facebook!
We have a page on Facebook! Like us!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frankford-Youth-Centre/225662600835159
Welcome!
Welcome to our new website for the Frankford Youth Centre. We hope this will be helpful as this project moves along, and we will try to keep this page up-to-date with developments in the project.
If you have any ideas or questions about the website, contact Brandon Shillington through the contact form on the “Contact Us” page, or by emailing directly or phoning.