• SILENT AUCTION
  
• OPEN HOUSE - DEC 2, 2011
  
• Clean Up in New West
  
  • Media Background
    
  • 2011 Sponsors and Donors
    
  • About the Acorn
    
  • Sponsorhip
    
  • Gratitude in our Words
    
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Clean Up In New West

Westminster House

About our Event
Just as we get clean n New Westminster, Westminster House will turn our attention to the environment we live in and adopt a public space to clean up once a year. We want the community we live in to know about us and to feel proud that hundreds of women have been given a chance to become active and responsible members of the community.

On Saturday September 10, 2011 Westminster House will host our third annual Clean Up in New West event.  Westminster House current residents, staff, board members and alumni, together with their families, friends and the community will be turning up to show their gratitude. Their sleeves will be rolled-up and ready for clean up action!

Our event will feature a clean up march, pie eating contest, charity raffle, family games and more! Participation includes a complimentry lunch!

Event Details
11:00 am – Registration
12:00 pm – Clean up march
1:00 pm – Complimentary lunch
1:30 pm – Flash MOB dance team featuring Lady GaGa’s Born this Way
1:45 pm – 3rd Annual pie eating contest
2:00 pm – Prize announcements including 2011 charity raffle draw

About Westminster House
Westminster House is a residential recovery centre located in the heart of New Westminser. Founded in 1981, Westminster House is a non-profit organization that offers access to women from across British Columbia and beyond.

It is a testament to the program that many of our graduates stay connected to Westminster House as alumni and volunteers. This long term connection both aids stability and encourages women entering the program.

The team at Westminster House chose the acorn as our symbol because of its similarity to the recovery process; it has to hit the ground hard in order to open, grow, and reveal the strong oak tree within.

Sponsorship

Recognition of Sponsors And Donors
Westminster House is grateful for our sponsors and supporters and recognizes them in a number of ways. All sponsors and supporters names are printed in the welcome package. Sponsors will be recognized on our website, in our newsletter, in the local media and in social media broadcasts after the event.

All sponsorship funds raised at Clean Up in New West will go directly to client programming at Westminster House. The special project that has been selected this year is the Client Bedroom Project estimated at $9,856.00.

Registration Sponsor
At the 3rd annual Clean Up in New West event we are excited to be handing out grab bag to the first 100 participants who register for the clean up march.  Donations could include items such as gift certificates, small gifts and items that will help to promote your business and reward our participants for cleaning up the community of New Westminster.

Hospitality Sponsor
Westminster House is seeking donations that could include food, beverages and condiments. We welcome a representative of the sponsor organization to help at the event and to display a banner at the hospitality booth.

Local Business Supporter
Local businesses will display posters about our event and/or hold a sidewalk sale on the clean up route. Westminster House will provide the posters as well as hellium filled balloons to complement your store front the day of the event.

Donations Made In-Kind
Westminster House is a non-profit organization and is always in need of prizes and donations for our community events and program. Donations over $25.00 will be issued a charity tax receipt.

Volunteer & Participate
Contact Susan at 604-524-5633 to find out how volunteering and participating at this event will make a difference in our community of New Westminster.

We are Grateful

Testiment
I arrived at Westminster House paralyzed by fear. Everything of which I valued- self-respect, hope, pride, and honor- were stripped of me. Unable to go on living the way I was living, but terrified of change- of which I thought was so unimaginable.

I went through the days just stringing one day with the next. The women of Westminster House carried me. Myself, being too defeated and exhausted to make any sort of decisions on my own.

As days turned into months, I gained a sense of self back. I learned to trust, to love, and to laugh again. I developed unbridled relationships with women. I found my “place” within myself, my home (Westminster House), and my community.

All of which I believe in, I have gained by the unconditional love and support from the women of Westminster House. I have purpose. I have value. I live with honor and integrity.

I see my fallibility as a human. And I can now recognize trust and reliance on women that want to hold me up. Hold me up high, to my greatest potential. “Life on life’s terms” is something I trust I can cope with now, because I now put value to life- to my life.

Westminster House has given me spiritual contentment, love in my heart, and personal freedom. Westminster House has allowed me the ability to live with dignity, to love myself and others, to laugh, and to find great joy and beauty in my surroundings. Westminster House is my home and my family to which I am forever grateful.

Tanya T.

Westminster House Mission Statement
To provide and maintain a structured environment within a therapeutic community that is both beneficial and critical for women to develop and rediscover their life skills; to foster a space supportive of shared experiences free from alcohol and chemical dependency, as well as facilitate the process of integration of women back into the community.