SOS News

See below the highlights of the Spring Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon. Thank you everyone for coming to our annual SOS Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon! To all the volunteers, dignitaries and our special musical guest Jesse Epp, thank you for celebrating with us...

SOS is working with Blue Sky Fundraising to help fundraise for SOS. They are a local company who produce savings books to help raise funds for charities and local schools such as SPCA and Ballenas Secondary School. Each book will retail at $20 each and sold at SOS...

Dreaming of a better you this year? This is the place to begin. The SOS Personal Growth Group helps residents enhance their quality of life and develop their potential while gaining new skills and confidence. Outcomes include: a better connection with yourself and...

Join SOS for a free seminar on creating a healthy resilience practice on Saturday, February 11 from 10 a.m. to noon, at the SOS Community Services Centre in Parksville. The seminar will be led by Cindy Thompson ACC, M. Sc, RCC, who is a Registered Clinical...

Red Apple Fill the Sleigh Day A big shoutout to Red Apple, all the staff there, and everyone who supported their Fill the Sleigh Day and Toy Drive for SOS this year SOS received a cheque for $1,203 from 10% of the sales on Dec. 5, PLUS $1,520 in cash donations...

Tigh-Na-Mara Toy Drive Thank you everyone who came out to the Tigh-Na-Mara Christmas Toy Drive this year! We received an outstanding and record-breaking amount of cash and gift card donations this year! And it's the most toys we have received in the last few years!...

Do you know a local family in need of a mattress for their child? M&N Mattress & Sofa Gallery is partnering with SOS this year to provide the gift of good sleep to residents in need. M&N Mattress & Sofa Gallery will donate 12 mattresses, mattress...

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The Oceanside Task Force on Homelessness (OTFH) is relaunching the Project Connect Health Fair Wednesday, Oct. 12 in the hopes of reconnecting those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with essential community resources and supports.   The Project...

Thank you to our partners at the PQB News for including SOS as recipients in their new "Walking Club - Delivering a Strong Community." Please contact the PQB News for more...

  SOS is launching a free quarterly series of public learning seminars starting this fall. This series will discuss topics that are most important to the social safety net that supports the wellbeing of our residents now and in the future. The first seminar...

  Our first ever #SOSTeenShop event was so much fun! Coinciding with SOS Thrift Shop's 19th anniversary at its current location, around 60 local youth enjoyed live music, food and a shopping extravaganza at SOS Thrift Shop on Sept. 8. “We were really pleased...

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We are hosting our first ever #sosteenshop! This event, for local 13-19 year-olds, will be held at SOS Thrift Shop on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 5-7 pm. We will offer great back-to-school deals, plus we will have live music, food, a DJ, prizes, a scavenger hunt,...

Dress up and join us on Canada Day!

SOS AGM to take place June 29, 2022 SOS will be hosting our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, June 29 at 5:30 pm.The AGM will take place at the SOS Community Services Centre in Parksville. For more information on attending and how to RSVP, please click here....