The Village Food Market Community Fundraising Program is a way for you to contribute to the Commons Community Kitchen Project every time you buy groceries. All you have to do to get your Community Card is to go to the office at Village Foods and let them know that you would like to support the Commons Community Kitchen. You load the card with a minimum of $100 by using debit, cash or a pre-authorized cheque, then use the loaded card to pay for your groceries. Each time you load your card the equivalent of 5% of the amount you loaded will go to the Commons Community Kitchen. The card is like cash and can be used by anyone who presents it, so if your card gets been lost or stolen, let Village Food know right away and they will freeze the account. Village Foods is providing the Commons with this fundraising opportunity until the end of summer 2011. We all spend money at Village Foods and this gives us the opportunity to spend that money, get the food and at the same time have 5% go towards helping with the Commons Community Kitchen.

Our sincere thanks to our 800+ members, 300+ generous donors, and 160+ volunteers. The Gabriola Commons would not exist without your valuable contributions.
We greatly appreciate the grants from the
Coastal Community Credit Union Spirit Fund
and the Nanaimo Community Foundation, as well as an Innovative Community Development Award from the Canadian Cancer Society's Community Building Strategy.