Community Support

Senior Movies at the Fox

This popular event welcomes Seniors to enjoy a free movie once a month at the well-loved neighbourhood theatre."My wife and I look forward to the free movie at the Fox every month. Paris is so much fun, and we really enjoyed the Christmas lunch that Quigley's provided. It was great. Thank you Rotarians!" Barry Webster, Senior Citizen and Pensioner

Pegasus Community Project

The Pegasus Community Project trains and assists mentally challenged young adults towards independence. "The funds raised by the Beach Rotary Bowlathon have helped Pegasus to purchase mobility equipment, which has enhanced the everyday life of the adults with special needs who participate in our programs. We also enjoy being part of the event itself, where everyone feels welcome and included." Marie Perrotta, Founding Director

WoodGreen Community Services Homeward Bound Program. 

This ground-breaking program helps women acquire life-skills, computer skills, a community college education, and employment training so they can learn to provide for themselves and their children.

Geneva Centre for Autism

Since 1974, Geneva Centre for Autism has been a Canadian and international leader in delivering clinical best practice, support and training for individuals with autism and their families.  The Centre is once again breaking new ground by creating Toronto's only resource centre focused solely on adults with autism.  To achieve this ambitious goal, the Geneva Centre community will raise an historic $3 million to expand its downtown Toronto campus.

Providence Healthcare's Alzheimer Day Program

Since opening its doors in 1995, the Alzheimer Day Program (ADP) has proven to be a visionary in the areas of creative programming for individuals living with dementia, and their family members. In fact, it was the first of its kind in Canada to provide 24/7 service, a significant move as it recognized that the pressures and challenges of caring for a loved one were not confined to the 9-to-5 day.

The ADP is a nationally-acclaimed program that offers therapeutic activities and caregiver education and support to its clients, known as 'club members.' Club members have a choice of three clubs - day, evening or overnight.

Balmy Beach Canoe Club 

This busy sports club is located on the lake, and is the meeting place for our Rotary Club. We donated a Defibrillator to the club, which is accessible from the boardwalk and front entrance. Club members and anyone close to the club who requires this life-saving medical equipment are encouraged to use it. Beacher Jason Skare taught CPR and defibrillator use to the BBC staff.

BBC General Manager Charlene Provan and club President Chris Buckley (left) flank the defib machine along with Rotarians Tom Teahen and Barb Dingle. The medical equipment is mounted inside the club on the wall above the squash courts.
Photo courtesy Jon Muldoon, Beach Metro News.

Scholarships awarded to Malvern and Monarch Park Collegiates, Notre Dame and Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary Schools.
Students are chosen for academic achievement, their positive contribution to school life and their service to the community at large.

Earl Haig Public School Music Program

Police Division 55 Scholarships

Applegrove HAIG Family Resource Program
This program promotes good child-rearing skills, reading, self-esteem and a feeling of community to children six years and under and their caregivers.

Children at the Applegrove Family Resource Program play at the sand table
and other equipment donated by our Club.

Literacy through Hip Hop -- LTHH

Using hip hop music as inspiration, children living in poor neighbourhoods who have difficulty learning to read and write, learn about the issues, history and artists of the hip hop culture. This innovative program, developed by two university students, condones only positive hip hop, which contains no derogatory comments. The first literacy classes were started in Toronto; LTHH is spreading its wings into other underprivileged areas including Mexico.

Baseball Hall of Fame Summer Camp for Kids

Gardener's Cottage Restoration and Dream Tour
Through the generous contributions from the Beach Community Designers and Renovators, Beach Rotary was able to add $70,000 of needed restoration to the Cottage.

Toronto East General Hospital  

"The TEGH Foundation applauds the commitment of the Rotary Club of Toronto Beach to raise funds in support of their community. With their help we were able to provide much needed programs, supplies and equipment for our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program's Crisis Unit, a portable fetal heart monitor for our new Birthing Unit, plus funds for the  ER and Pediatric units." Justin Van Dette, TEGH Foundation.tion

Toronto Beach Rotary presents a cheque for $5,000 to TEGH Foundation,
the proceeds from the first annual Jazz Run and Walk held during the Beaches Jazz Festival.

International Support

Safe water for village in Zimbabwe

One in 5 people in the world do not have access to safe water, which is vital to survival and good health. A key thrust in Rotary Foundation is the many water projects throughout the third world. Toronto Beach Rotary along with other Clubs in our Rotary District 7070 is participating in a safe water project in a village in Zimbabwe. By building a well beside the village school, this sustainable initiative provides safe water for the children, and water for healthy gardens.

Removal of Landmines

100% of the funds are used to remove landmines and aid landmine survivors in some of the most mine-affected countries of the world, including Mozambique, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Vietnam.

Worldwide Eradication of Polio

After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk.

Help to AIDS orphans in South Africa

Nceduluntu is a project near Cape Town, South Africa, designed to house up to 60 very young orphans of AIDS parents. We, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Strand, Cape Town, have donated funds to build one of the low cost houses for six of these orphans and their "House Mother".