Your Impact
Summer 2025

Here's a snapshot of how your support strengthens our community. Thank you!

2025 Mission Breakfast
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You don't want to miss this year's fundraiser!

Guy Felicella will speak on his theme: Overcoming.

Guy Felicella turned his life around after years of homelessness, gang involvement, and surviving overdoses in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, overcoming a two-decade long substance use disorder.

Now, he is an international public speaker and advocate for drug policy reform. Guy passionately promotes harm reduction, trauma therapy, and faster access to treatment, using his story of resilience and recovery to inspire others and push for compassionate drug policies and addiction support.

This is your opportunity to hear Guy’s story. And the breakfast is a great place to network, meet our staff and volunteers, and learn more about our work.

Tickets are $145 each or $1300 for a table of 10.*
To purchase by phone, call Matt at (902) 292-6187

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* A portion of each ticket purchase is considered a donation and you will receive a donation receipt.

Art with Ed
A colourful afternoon

We had a colourful afternoon with local artist, Ed Coleman. Ed introduced folks young and old to painting! Food Bank users and Café guests spent a few hours learning to paint or honing their skills. Paints and creativity flowed all afternoon, with everyone making their own version of a classic Coleman flower piece or something of their own design.

Our Café has become a hub of activity during the summer, providing free snacks and meals, plus activities and added support for those most vulnerable. When our doors open, program users beeline to the Café for a cup of coffee or a quick snack before starting a load of laundry or using the food bank.

Thanks to your support, we're able to meet folks where they're at. Some simply need groceries for the week, or a chance to put brush to canvas.

We witnessed a permanent smile on one woman while she painted.

She came for the food bank, and walked out with groceries and a masterpiece of her own making.

Thank you.

Brunswick Street Garden
Greening our food security programs

Our garden is still growing! Corn, squash, peas, and peppers are starting to fill up our garden beds. Some vegetables will go straight to our Food Bank, and others will be used as ingredients for the freshly prepared meals we serve in our Café.

Pride Parade
BSM has Pride!

Thank you Canada Summer Jobs Students

Kenneth, Cas, Baisa, and Alex

We had another great crew of summer job students this year. Kenneth, Cas, and Baisa made our garden flourish with plants and added beautiful murals to the space. Alex joined our kitchen crew to support breakfast guests.

Art Gala
Photos from an evening of Art and Music

Our Art Gala raised $10,000! Thanks to the artists, our musician Sam Wilson, and to all those who attended our evening of art and music.

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