Since it’s inception over 75 years ago the CBBCA and our community have worked to build and expand our community’s services and facilities. A continuous series of volunteers, leaders, and projects have built, expanded, and created what and who we are today. Our mission continues to be to follow in those footsteps; to collectively build and create an even greater legacy for the volunteers, leaders, and community of tomorrow. Join us.
Project Sandhills Phase 1 started in 2012 and completed in 2015; it was all about building on our history to create new opportunities. Thanks to hundreds of donors, generous corporate donors, dozens of volunteers, and Eli, the CBBCA contributed over $550,000 to the Major Capital Partnership with the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Library. The expanded centre, now nearly 5,000 ft2 larger and 17,000 ft2, feels different; brighter, welcoming, spacious, and comfortable. Leveraging those opportunities drove utilization up over 30% in 2016 to 62,000 visits, excluding Library patrons, with new programs, from Art to Zumba, and new services, from the WOCRC’s new service centre to Foot Care, the centre’s new capacity rapidly filled up.
Phase 2 started in 2016 and, behind the curtain of a series disasters, completed in 2021 delivering opportunities to expand programs, services, and partnerships. There is a new Lounge equipped with four video screens and couches for the youth & adult programs and our new commercial kitchen that brings the joy back to group cooking. The Millenium Kitchen was capital partnership with the City and a nearly $100,000 CBBCA investment in development and outfitting. Offering over 600 ft2 of exceptional opportunities the new kitchen will do everything well; if you’d like to pop in and join a class to make a great soup for lunch, whip up something different to take home for dinner, or join a gourmet club for a great group cooked meal, the Phase 2 kitchen is a concept made for you. Once fully operational we expect to run 15 activities a week for groups of 10. People working the kitchen for one of the dozens of church and CBBCA events, weddings, and anniversaries will find the kitchen’s banquet configuration a welcome and dramatic improvement. Once completed, the Northwind Wireless Fibe Centre will add dozens of hours of popular new programming each week, generate thousands more visits, and show once again why we’re the little community that can.
Engraving is now in progress for Phase 2 of the CBBCA Donor Wall. The wall recognizes the contributions to our past, our present, and our future. New donor tiles are now available; donors of $250 or more will receive a 6×6 engraved tile with 2 lines of text up to 36 characters, donors of $750 or more will receive a 12 x 12 tile with up to 5 lines of text and 105 characters. Donations are not tax deductible.
You can order your tile here:
6×6 (2 lines of text up to 36 characters)
12×12 (up to 5 lines of text and 105 characters)