2024 Spirit Gala raises over $450,000
Thank you to our whole community for the huge show of support for our 2024 Spirit Gala. We asked you to Dream in Gold with us as we recognised 50 years of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital, and you truly helped us achieve a night to remember.
The Mary Winspear Centre was transformed into a vision of gold and white; guests wore their finest (and sparkliest) outfits; we were entertained with music, surprises and enjoyed a delicious meal. The support for the Saanich Peninsula Hospital was felt throughout the night and through the incredible donations and pledges made.
We had been excited to receive a donation from PavCo and the BC Place Community Benefit Program of two tickets to the SOLD OUT Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert in Vancouver. The tickets were a feature lot in our online Silent Auction allowing the whole community (and Swifties everywhere) to place a bid. As the minutes ticked down to the Silent Auction close at 8.30 pm it was obvious that there was fierce competition to be the final bidder, but we didn’t realise that one of those bidders was in the room with us! The whole room cheered when we learned that the winning bidder, at $10,000, had decided to turn the tickets over to the Live Auction so that someone else had a chance to bid again! Our Auctioneer kept the total rising and there were cheers again when they sold for $10,000! No one could have anticipated what happened next … yes, that winner turned the tickets back to auction and they were the subject of another hot contest. The final winning bid for the two Taylor Swift tickets was $10,250 from a local business owner and SPHHF supporter. In total that generous donation of tickets raised $30,250 towards our evening’s total!
Another stand out moment during our cash appeal was the announcement of a $100,000 donation from the Dan-On Foundation to our Acute Care Campaign – thank you to Mr On who wasn’t able to attend the event in person for this significant gift, the first of a total half a million dollars pledged to the campaign.
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of sponsors, guests and supporters our 2024 Spirit Gala raised over $450,000!
Thank you to everyone who helped make the event so special and so successful including our presenting sponsor Peninsula Co-op and to sponsors: Island Paving, Twig & Bloom Floral Studio, CIBC Private Wealth – Gale Wealth Advisors, Citta Group, Sidney All Care, Graphic Office Interiors, Pacific Heat Pumps, Amica Senior Lifestyles, Henley & Straub, Peninsula Rock Products, Holy Cow Communication Design, Coast Dental Care, Island Floor Centre, Finlayson Bonet Architecture, Holmes Realty Group Coldwell Banker Oceanside Real Estate, Chartwell Vista Retirement Community, Printing By Innovation, Riptide, Oakwood Manor, Sidney Waterfront Inn & Suites, Scotia Wealth Management; Tabletop Curated Rentals, Peninsula Lifetime Eyecare, Seaside Magazine, Chek, Peninsula News Review.
Thanks to our live auction donors: Truffles, LML Cleaning Services, Cascadia Board Co., Blue Jellyfish, Peninsula Co-op, Stone’s Jewellery, Deep Cove Chalet, d.g.bremner & co. and Good Bones Clothing Company.
Gratitude to the silent auction donors: Alexanderʼs Coffee, Amica Senior Lifestyles, Arbutus Ridge Golf Club, Barbaraʼs Boutique, Blue Jelly Fish SUP, Brentwood Community Wellness – Angela Leavey, Butchart Gardens, Cameron Rose, Canadian Tire, CastArt Studios, Chartwell Vista Retirement Community, Chek News, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Communicanine Training, Cottons & Blues, Country Grocer, Craigdarroch Castle, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada, d.g.bremner & co., Driving Miss Daisy Victoria, Eurosa Farms, Fickle Fig Farm Market, Flavors of India, Float House Victoria, Floydʼs Diner, Four Paws Pet & Grocery Boutique, Fresh Cup Roastery Café, Helmet Head Canada, Holmes Realty Group Coldwell Banker Oceanside Real Estate, House of Lily Koi, Hughesman Morris Liversedge CPA, Hunter Coaching and Consulting, Il Terrazzo, Infinite Roots – NatureRx, Julia Lucich Art, Karen J. Booth, Kiddinʼ Around, LA Limousine, Level Ground Coffee Roasters & Roastery Café, Lifetime Eyecare, Linda Haskell, Macaloneyʼs Island Distillery & Twa Dogs Brewery, Mango Tango Interiors, Marion Evamy, Matshop Art Supplies, McTavish Academy of Art, Metropolitan Hospitality, Mount Washington Alpine Resort, Muffet & Louisa, Nancy Michell, Oakwood Manor, Oceanna Hall, Pacific Coastal Airlines, Pacific Heat Pumps, Panago Pizza, Panorama Recreation, PavCo and the BC Place Community Benefit Program, Peninsula Panthers, Rachel Meadows, Rancho Vignola Distributors Ltd., Rascals Pet Market, Rivershore Estate & Golf, Robert Bateman, Rogersʼ Chocolates, Royal BC Museum, Russ Hays The Bicycle Shop, Salvador Davis & Co, Sawmill Taphouse & Grill, Sea Cider Farm and Ciderhouse, Seaside Magazine, Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea, Shelley Davies Art, Sheringham Distillery, Sidney All-Care Residence, Skin By Angela, Smart Dog Training, SPHHF Board Directors, Star Cinema, Stones Jewellery, Summergate Quilters, Terry Czap, The Ice Cream Truck, The Market Stores, The Sidney Pier Hotel & Spa, The Vista Inn, Tim Maloney & Karen Morgan, The Noble Pig, Thomas Philips Woodworking Ltd., Unsworth Vineyards, Vancouver Canadians Professional Baseball Club, Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Victoria Symphony.
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