Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign

The Fourth and Final Polar Plunge
2024-12-31 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Kingston, Ontario, 53 Yonge St., Kingston, Ontario, Canada
It’s her fourth and final plunge! Come cheer on our Intrepid 80-year old Grandma Gail as she plunges into Lake Ontario’s frigid waters. Join the Kingston Grandmother Connection Polar Plunge Party at noon, New Year’s Eve, Tuesday December 31, 2024 at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour.
Bring your bling, join the fling. Gail does her water-dance to raise funds to support African grandmothers caring for their grandchildren orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Toetally show your support – dip your 10 toes into the water. Or stay warm and dry and dance with us on shore.
Families and kids, neighbours and passers by, all are welcome to join in the fun and help us raise funds. We accept donations on-site by credit or debit, cash, or cheque. Donations of $20 and over are eligible for a charitable tax receipt. If you can’t be there in person, you can still donate through e-transfer by following instructions on our website: g2gkingston.ca. All proceeds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign https://stephenlewisfoundation.org.

Join the Mariposa Grandmothers for a Book Exchange
2025-02-22 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Paul’s Church, 62 Peter St N, Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Admission by donation. Bring 6 books and/or puzzles and get 6 new ones. Jewelry sale table also.

Nelson Grans to Grans Annual African Dinner
2025-03-01 16:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | 602 Silica St, Nelson, BC V1L 4N1, 602 Silica St,, Nelson, BC, V1L 4N1, Canada
The Nelson Grans to Grans will host an African Dinner with a silent auction and entertainment. $30 for adults, $10 for children. Visit our website to learn more!

Salt Spring Grans Annual Scrabble Fundraiser
2025-03-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Salt Spring Inn, 132 Lower Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, V8K 2S9, Canada
Three opportunities to play during our March Scrabble Week. This is our 18th! Bring a friend or make new ones. Games, refreshments, prizes, fun!

Conversation & Learning: Celebrating International Women's Day at SLF
2025-03-06 10:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Stephen Lewis Foundation, 260 Spadina Suite 100, Toronto, ON, M5T 2E4, Canada
The Diversity, Inclusion, Recruitment and Retention (DIRR) Committee and SLF staff invite you to spend the day with us, in person, at the SLF office!
Join us for this FREE event in the morning to mix and mingle and hear from SLF staff about their work. You’ll be joined by Senior Leadership, Development and Program Teams and will hear about what the DIRR team has been working on.
In the afternoon, you will get a chance to meet the speakers for the Contemporary African Voices event, Alpha Nkuranga, a Rwandan-Canadian writer, in conversation with Garvia Bailey, followed by a Q&A. The webinar will be shot live in the office with you as the studio audience.
Donations are welcomed for the Contemporary African Voices event.
Please bring a bagged lunch. Light refreshments will be provided.

Salt Spring Grans Annual Scrabble Fundraiser
2025-03-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver)
Three opportunities to play during our 17th Annual March Scrabble Week. Bring a friend or make new ones. Games, refreshments, prizes, fun!

Salt Spring Grans Annual Scrabble Fundraiser
2025-03-08 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver)
Three opportunities to play during our 17th Annual Scrabble Fundraiser! Bring a friend or make new ones. Games, refreshments, prizes, fun! Tonight includes a Silent Auction with wonderful treasures!

Grandmother Goodies" Upcoming Bake Sale
2025-03-22 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-23 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | Old Strathcona Antique Mall, 10323-78 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 1N8, Canada
TREAT YOURSELF AND SUPPORT A GREAT CAUSE!!!
As many of you may know, the SLF has launched an emergency appeal to raise funds for the SLF partner organizations in sub-Saharan Africa. This appeal is in response to the threatened funding cuts to aid organizations (e.g. USAID, AMREF) proposed by the American government. Funding cuts would have a devastating impact on the ability of the SLF partner organizations to do their work.
We value your continued support and hope you are able to join us at our “Grandmother Goodies” upcoming bake sale.
A delicious array of home baked goods created by Grandmothers in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
When:
Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23
11:00 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where:
Old Strathcona Antique Mall
10323-78 Avenue, Edmonton
We accept cash, cheque, debit card or credit card.
All profits from the sale support the Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation https://grandmotherscampaign.org/about-us/?nocache=1
Go to www.edmgrandmothers.org for more information about the GANG and the Grandmothers Campaign.
Please share the details below with friends and family. Hope to see you there!

Yoga Morning and Breakfast
2025-03-29 09:30 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Hudson Community Center, 481 Main Road, Hudson, QC, J0P 1H0, Canada
An hour of regenerative yoga with Zoe Baulne, followed by a light breakfast consisting of yoghurt, homemade muffins and tea/coffee. Come join the Hudson Grannies for a morning of relaxation, reflection and great camaraderie! An update on the latest news from SLF will also be given.

Pasta Dinner in Midland, ON
2025-04-04 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | St Paul’s United Church Hall, 308 King Street Midland, ON, Midland, Ontario, L4R 3M6, Canada
Join in Grandmothers Hands Huronia for our annual Pasta Dinner. Dinner is by donation. All proceeds go to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. With recent funding cuts, the need is never been greater. Please stand with us and offer your support!

Spring Bling & Easter Things
2025-04-05 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Christ Lutheran Church 445 Anndale rd Waterloo, 445 Anndale Rd, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Fashion Scarves Purses Jewelry Easter Baskets Plants Gift Items
All proceeds to support the work of the Stephen Lewis Fdn
Christ Lutheran Church
445 Anndale Rd
Waterloo, ON (near Davenport and Lexington)
https://www.omas-siskonakw.org/

Spring Bling & Easter Things
2025-04-05 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Christ Lutheran Church, Waterloo, 445 Anndale Rd., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Fashion Scarves Purses Jewelry Easter Baskets Plants Gift Items
Saturday April 5th 10 am to 2 pm
Christ Lutheran Church
445 Anndale Rd Waterloo, ON
(near Davenport and Lexington)
All welcome!

High Tea with The Kamloops CanGo Grannies
2025-04-05 12:30 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Southwest Community Church, 700 Hugh Allan Drive, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Join us for High Tea! Scones & jam, tea sandwiches, macarons & other dainties. Music from cellist Laure Matiakh, live & silent auctions, gently used jewelry to purchase, magic show with Clinton W. Gray. Tickets $35, cash or cheque. Reserve a table for 8! Call Ann for tickets/tables, 250-374-0114.

High Tea, sale and auction
2025-04-05 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Southwest Community Church, 700 Hugh Allan Drive, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
The Kamloops CanGo Grannies are hosting a High Tea on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the Southwest Community Church, 700 Hugh Allan Dr. Doors open at 1:00 p.m. for socializing, shopping our jewellery sale and bidding on amazing silent auction items. An elegant tea, including finger sandwiches, and desserts will be served at 2:00 p.m. with a live auction to follow. Tickets will be available in the new year from several local businesses and through members. Please check back in January for more details and locations for ticket sales.

Books, Bites, Baubles
2025-04-12 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | First Unitarian Church of Hamilton, 170 Dundurn St. South, Hamilton, ON., First Unitarian Church of Hamilton, 170 Dundurn St. South,, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Always a crowd favourite – the annual Blooms for Africa book exchange, café and jewelry sale! Bring books you have enjoyed reading (optional). No text books or encyclopedias. Choose lots of books to take home! Visit the Blooms Café for coffee & light bites. Sale of gently used jewelry and accessories.

GrammaLink-Africa Fabulous Fabric Sale
2025-04-26 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta

Edmonton Grandmothers - HUGE Fabulous Fabric Frenzy Sale
2025-04-26 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Edmonton) | Strathearn United Church, 8510 - 95 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6C 1Y7, Canada
HUGE selection of fabric, yarn, notions, craft supplies at rock bottom prices. This will be our only fabric sale this year – we hope to see you there!!!
Saturday, April 26 2025 from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Strathearn United Church 8510 – 95 Avenue, Edmonton
$2 admission (cash only)
Payment for purchases by cash, credit card or debit card.
We value your continued support and hope you are able to join us at our Edmonton Grandmothers Fabric Frenzy Sale. This campaign supports grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa who are raising their grandchildren due to the AIDS pandemic.

Spring Bling Sale
2025-04-26 10:30 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | The Spot in Southland Mall, Regina, 2965 Gordon Road, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 6H7, Canada
For our first ever ‘Spring Bling’ event, we will be collecting donations of gently used jewellery, vintage and Sherman jewellery, purses and shoe bags, silk-like scarves, broken or single gold and silver pieces, jewellery and watch boxes, and much more. These items will be available for purchase at our one-day sale on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at The Spot in Southland Mall, Regina, SK. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, in support of African grandmothers.

Storytelling Afternoon
2025-04-29 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Halifax) | Saint Ignatius Church, 1288 Bedford Highway, Bedford, Nova Scotia, B4A 1C8, Canada
Listen to 11 Stories from all over the world, some originating from the African continent.
Shop our Spring Bling sale.
Enjoy refreshments and desserts!

May Mini Market Kingston Grandmother Connection
2025-05-03 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | St. John’s Anglican Church, 41 Church St, Kingston, Ontario, K7M 1H2, Canada
At the Kingston Grandmother Connection’s May Mini Market you’ll be sure to find a perfect Mother’s Day gift amid the splendid selection of crafts, sewing, baking, plants and more. Beautiful photos of nature adorn Canadian-made note cards. Unique and varied, Sandglass creations are both ornamental and useful indoors and out. Our much-in-demand African baskets are our only non-Canadian products; made by hand in Africa, they are colourful and capacious, real eye-catchers. For all you gardeners there will be a fresh crop of spring seedlings, flowers, herbs and vegetables, for house and garden. Get more bargains amid the gently used ladies clothing for spring and summer, our jewellery collection and our sustainable earth-friendly shampoo and laundry eco products. We predict you won’t be able to resist the temptation to try one of the delicious baked cookies, muffins, or cakes. All proceeds to helplesotho.org and to stevenlewisfoundation.org to assist African grandmothers supporting their grandchildren on their own.

Spring Sale
2025-05-10 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver) | Comox United Church, 250 Beach Drive, Comox, British Columbia, V9M 1P9, Canada
The Comox Valley Glacier Grannies will be holding their Spring Sale on Saturday May 10 from 8 am to 12 noon in the car park of Comox United Church, 250 Beach Drive (corner of Comox Avenue)
Enjoy the music of the Swing Valley Two while you:
Get a start on your summer garden by purchasing vegetable and herb starts
Add colour to your yard or home by choosing from our selection of perennials and house plants
Pick up a bargain from the gently-used items we are selling from our car trunks
Buy local – we will have our own beautiful crafts for sale, plus pottery made in Comox and lots of home baking
Browse our selection of fashion jewellery

Plant Sale and Market Place
2025-05-10 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | 65 Knudson Drive, Kanata, ON K2K 2L5, 65 Knudson Drive, Kanata, ON, K2K 2L5
The Grassroot Grannies are holding their very successful Plant Sale and Market Place spring event. In our 17th year our neighbours look forward to finding healthy perennials, vegetable and herb seedlings, unique hand-made garden art, gently used gardening tools, fabulous floral and African granny-made note cards and flowering pots to celebrate Mother’s Day. Over the past 16 years we have proudly raised over $100,000 through this event only.

Timeless Voices: A Tribute to Female Artists from the 60s to the 90s
2025-05-10 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | East End United, 310 Danforth Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A live benefit concert featuring Cheryn Lyn and the Catalysts, a 5-piece band known for their high energy and engaging music. This concert will celebrate female singers including Karen Carpenter, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and more.
Enjoy a glass of wine and light bites while browsing the excellent Silent Auction items.
Tickets before March 31, 2025 – $45 ($55 after)
All proceeds to support the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Annual Mother's Day Plant Sale ~ Quesnel Farmer's Market 8:30 to 1:00
2025-05-11 08:30 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Helen Dixon Center, 241 Kinchant Street, Quesnel, BC, V2J2R3
We are back again this year with our beautiful tomato plants which are started from seed by one of our members. There are numerous varieties and they look great. Other garden plants available: berries, lilies and shrubs.
Cost: By Donation Please

Plant Sale and Beyond
2025-05-17 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Hudson, QC, 466 Main Road, Hudson, QC, J0P 1H0, Canada
As our gardens burst back into life, Hudson’s Grannies Aid for Africa is busy getting ready for our annual “Plant Sale and Beyond” fundraiser. Come out and join us on Saturday, May 17th between 10am and 2pm at 413 Lakeview in Hudson. You will be able to browse through the perennials and other plants, pick up some delicious home baked goodies and garden treasures, or simply pop by for a visit and enjoy a coffee among friends. All this for a very worthy cause.

Annual Multi-Family Garage Sale
2025-05-31 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | 1187 Moffat Ave., 1187 Moffat Ave., Quesnel, BC, Canada
Join the Gold Pan Grannies at the Johnson Neighbourhood Multi-Family Garage Sale 9:00 ~ 1:00 Saturday May 31, 2025.
Cost: By Donation Please

Fashion for Climate Action
2025-05-31 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Edmonton) | Southminster-Steinhauer United Church, 10740 - 19 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6J 6W9, Canada
A fashion show with a difference! All of the original designs have been crafted to increase our knowledge and help us to continue the conversation about climate change. These amazing fashions have been created by Ellen Monaghan from the Calgary Ujaama Grandmas. Join us at Southminster-Steinhauer United Church in Edmonton on May 31. You can register online at: edmgrandmothers.org or at the door.

VanGogos Theatre Night Out with Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband
2025-05-31 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Vancouver) | Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
VanGogos invite you to join us for a night at the theatre for the United Players of Vancouver performance of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, a witty play revolving around blackmail and political corruption, touching on themes of public and private honour. Though written in the 1890s, it seems very appropriate for today!

Treasures from the Trunk
2025-06-07 09:30 - 15:00 (America/Regina)
We are planning for our third Treasures from the Trunk event. This is like a garage sale on wheels – the parking lot on the east side of Grant Road School will be filled with several vehicles, loaded with all sorts of bargains and treasures for the price-conscious shopper. Mark your calendars and join us on Saturday, June 7, 2025 at TREASURES FROM THE TRUNK on the east side of Grant Road School, 2502 Grant Road, Regina, between 9:30 am and 3:00 pm. Please follow us on Facebook for the latest information.
