LET THEM BE KIDS Let Them Be Kids is all volunteer non-profit organization created to build community capacity on the grassroots level, while building playgrounds, skate parks and fitness parks across Canada. These projects leave a legacy of community members who are inspired and better equipped to lay a strong foundation for a brighter tomorrow.
The Prince Charles Trenton Playground Project is a school and community based initiative to build the first accessible and inclusive playground in our city. The intention of this venture is provide a much needed playground while giving the community an opportunity to come together to make a positive change for ALL our children. The playground is widely used by the students of this school and extensively by the community after school, on weekends and during summer holidays. Please help us anyway you can as we come together as one to make this long time dream a reality!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
A Special Thank You
We don't have the name, but we do have the gratitude for a special someone that donated $10,000 to our project. Thank you for believing in us and for believing in our project! us and believing that this project!
Here is Joanna Smith, committee co chair and her son Xavier, receiving a check from Gary Newman, Trenton Legion branch president, for $1000! The Legion has been a supporter of many school and youth projects and we are grateful to their many years of service supporting our community.
ROTARY DONATED $12,000. THANK YOU! What an amazing group of people. We have been so welcomed by these folks that we are looking for excuses to visit them on a regular basis. Thank you to Mayor Williams and Mr. John Smylie, and all of the Rotarians that believe in us!
To date we have raised over $53,000! We also have thousands of dollars of donations to help with our build including labour, sand, wood, paint, landscaping, advertising and more! At this time, we would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to our project: Rotary Club of Trenton $12,000 Parrott Foundation $10,000 Hydro One $10,000 Students and Parents of Prince Charles School OVER $11,000 Home Depot Foundation $3000 KIAN Award $2500 Team Home Depot (kitchen makeover) JB Print (flyers, pledge forms, sign up sheets) Smylie's Your Independent Grocer (food for volunteers on build day) Branch Electric $1200 Stevenson’s Pumps and Plumbing (labour, heavy machinery, and so much more!) Paul Kirk (Welding) Cooney Excavating (Large machinery) Legion Branch 110 $1000 Research Casting International $1000 Lange and Fetter $500 Canadian Blasts Freezers $500 BMO Financial Group $700 Quinte Mobile Concrete (concrete) Smith Quality Fabrication (welding rods) Dr. Younes and Family $300 Kawartha Curb and Sidewalk $250 Dave’s Mobile Wash (prepping playground equipment for build day) CBM Aggregates (sand) Scaletta Group Trucking (trucking) Cornerstone $500 Spry Site Supervision $200 Kate Everson, EMC (media coverage) Emily Mountney, Trentonian (media coverage)
A big SHOUT OUT to Branch Electricwww.branch-electric.com/ for their $1200 donation to our project.
Pictured here are (L to R) Liam Branch, Cathy Speedy (VP), Ted Crawford (our awesome custodian that has done so much behind the scenes for this project) and Glenn Branch.
A big shout out to Vanessa Cassalman for sharing our project with BMO Financial Group and securing a $700 donation to our playground project. Pictured below is (back row) Lisa Giles, Cathy Speedy, (front row) Keely Geesey, Nathan Cassalman, Payton Goodfellow, Isaac Giles and Vanessa Cassalman.