For more information and to participate, please email Mary at marymc@vwth.bc.ca.

The Board of Directors invites you to attend Victoria Women's Transition House's Annual General Meeting. Join us for updates and highlights as we mark another year serving women and children escaping intimate partner violence and abuse.

RSVP to Laura Reniero at laurar@vwth.bc.ca. We hope to see you there.

A big thank you to superhero Tory for her generosity and thoughtfulness in choosing to support VWTH. With heartwarming philanthropic support from community members like Tory, we can continue in our work to help and empower children and women impacted by intimate partner violence and abuse.

On June 4, our Charity Champion Karlee ran alongside thousands of Goddesses to support VWTH—one of three selected Charities of Choice for the Victoria Goddess Run.

Dressed in costume honouring the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Karlee completed the Victoria Goddess Run feeling energized and accomplished. With support from generous donors, Karlee raised over $1,500 in donations to support Transition House programs and services.

Thank you to Walmart at Hillside for including VWTH in their opening weekend celebrations on June 17.

VWTH volunteers hosted an information booth on-site and shared information, resources and friendly conversations with shoppers.

VWTH had a wonderful time at the Pride Festival in the Park on June 26. Thank you to Victoria Pride Society for the opportunity for VWTH to participate in the festivities as a vendor and share information about available Transition House programs and services for women (cisgender and transgender) and non-binary and two-spirit people who identify as part of the women’s community. We look forward to next year's celebrations!

A big thank you to the Huntingdon Manor Hotel who hosted their annual Pancake Breakfast Celebration on Canada Day. The pay-by-donation event included a yummy pancake breakfast and fun activities with all proceeds going to support Victoria’s Women Transition House's programs for women and children escaping intimate partner violence and abuse.

A big thank you to the Rotary Club of Victoria—Harbourside for their continued support of the PEACE/Children Who Witness Abuse spring and summer camps.  

We are grateful to have been selected by FreisenPress as one of two recipients of their 2022/23 Employee Directed Giving Fund. FreisenPress Operations Manager Heather Stevens (left) and President Tammara Kennelly (middle) visited our community office in May to meet Susan Howard, VWTH's Communications and Development Director, and present the cheque donation.

On May 10, VWTH was invited by the Victoria Foundation to attend the Vital Youth Year-End Celebration as a recipient of generous grant funding from Vital Youth Program committees at Pearson College and Reynolds Secondary School.

Karlee, VWTH Senior Program Manager (second from the right) and Development Manager Christine (far right) attended the celebration and enjoyed the uplifting event filled with engaging conversations with the inspiring committee and grant representatives.

Funding from the grant will help VWTH expand our Healing Through the Arts program. The program inspires survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse to develop their skills, relieve isolation and engage with others in shared interests and experiences, create time for safe, quiet reflection and build resilience as they heal from abuse. Thank you to the Vital Youth Program committees for this incredible gift!

Thank you to the Odd Fellows—Victoria Columbia 2 chapter who hosted a wonderful fundraiser dinner and auction and raised close to $5,000 in support of Transition House programs and services back in May. Vice Grand Billy Sanderson (far left) and Nathan Kamula (middle) presented the cheque to Susan Howard, who accepted the cheque on behalf of Transition House.

On June 18, the Modern Real Estate Team hosted a delicious Sweet Treats for Shelter ice cream fundraiser for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation in Beckwith Park. Proceeds will go support four local Women's Shelters, including Victoria Women's Transition House. Pictured from left to right are colleagues Bill Ethier, Sarah West, Laura Roberts, Saira Waters, Sonya Conn, Lindsay Block-Glass and Sommer Fernandes. Thank you, all!

A big thank you to the City of Victoria for donating an array of colourful, blooming plants as part of their Get Growing, Victoria program.

The flowers and greens were planted in our garden at the Emergency Shelter earlier this week and we look forward to seeing them grow.

It is with much respect to the Lkwungen and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples of the WSÁNEĆ, Esquimalt, and Songhees Nations, on whose traditional territories the Victoria Women’s Transition House Society is located, that we make this acknowledgment with the expressed shared hope to live in communities free of intimate partner violence.