“Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” This summer, Sobeys Inc. is celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday (and Sobey’s 110th) with a community giving campaign that pairs ice cream and helping kids. It’s a match made in heaven!
On Saturday, June 24, visit your local Sobeys, Safeway, or IGA store and make a $2 donation for a cold ice cream treat that’ll warm your heart!
100% of the funds raised from Canada Screams for Ice Cream on June 24 will go to more than 100 local youth-focused charities across Western Canada providing healthy meals and snacks for kids. Sobeys will match all the donations raised, to a total of $100,000.
Your donation will stay in your community and go towards helping kids right in your area. Funds raised in Vancouver will be donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Coast BC. Having used their services myself as a teenager, I can’t think of a better cause to donate to!
Curious which worthy charity your local store is supporting? Discover your local charity here.
But that’s not all! Canada Screams for Ice Cream also kicks off the launch of Sobeys’ Kids Paying-It-Forward program. 150 kids from participating charities will each receive $500 in gift cards to donate to a community group that has helped their family, friends, or neighbours. That’s $75,000 in donations going towards helping Canadian charities shape future leaders and caring Canadians!
Mark your calendar for June 24 and bring the whole family down to enjoy a cool treat and help support kids in your community at the same time!
Learn more at www.treatyourcommunity.com and connect on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
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Disclosure: This is a sponsored conversation. Nevertheless, all opinions expressed are completely honest and my own, based on my personal experience. Your experience may differ.
I always try to donate, as much as I can. I already volunteer, but will probably look for another place to do it at, too, because it’s such a rewarding experience.
I volunteer my time as i find my of my donations are wasted asking me for more donations.
It’s very important to give back in your community. The saying “It takes a village” is so true. I make an effort to give back to our local elementary school with my time and skills.
Yes, I really like being able to donate items that are needed in my community and I’ve volunteered with my dog at a senior’s home in my city, it’s a wonderful thing to do for others.
It is definitely important to give back to the community. I am not able to volunteer, but I try to donate as often as I can.
I volunteer with the YWCA in my community and it is important to me because I spent time in a womens shelter after I left an abusive marriage and this is my way of giving back.
It is important to help others and set a example for your kids so they will learn to do so too.
I think volunteer work is so important. Admittedly, I haven’t done much volunteer work in recent years because I have been busy with work and young kids. But I used to do quite a bit! I do make an effort to donate to local charities or organizations though.
It is always important to give back.
It is important for me to donate to charity so items do not end up in the landfill.
It is important for me to donate and volunteer within my community. We are all in different stages of life and at any one time could be in another. Often just helping can get someone back on their feet so they can realize their dream and goals.
It’s important to me to donate and volunteer because it makes my community a better place and I feel more connected.
Definitely important, helping other people is human spirit.
Both volunteering and donating in our community is so important. Everyone needs help sometime. That is why I love donating stuff to local businesses to help out more people locally.
I do think it is important to donate or volunteer to your community. I don’t have much, so I like to do several small donations per year.
My husband was my mentor he taught me to stand up to family members who bullied me over the years and not to take any crap from anyone
It’s important to be a part of the community and help out where you can because it brings people together and helps the whole community.
Yes it’s important to volunteer…I volunteer at the local thrift store for the hospital’s benefit
I volunteer several days a week at my local Salvation Army thrift store pricing clothing. It is very important to help other families.
So important to be engaged and active as a volunteer in your community! It helps build a civil, just, plural and equitable society. Those who are struggling or do not have access to facilities/activities are given an opportunity to get assistance or experience new things (like kids who cannot access camps). I grew up poor, never went to summer camp, never had extra-curriculars (unless they were free); my only access to any extras were through programs and the generosity of others. So I give money and a lot of my own time and skills now in various voluntary endeavours (everything from working with child refugees on the weekend, to sitting on various boards and committees, to photography for a charity event, etc. etc.). So important!
I try to volonteer when I can and to give back to my community.I think it’s very important,not only for the community as a whole, but also to define who you are as a person too.I enjoy helping others.My biggest and most helpful mentor is my husband.He is as solid as a rock and I trust in his advice too.
It is very important to donate and to volunteer. It makes our world a much better and happier place.
It is the most important thing you can do……our entire family volunteers at least once a week
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway. I believe it’s so important to give back to the community! 🙂
I think it’s important to contribute to our local community as well as the international arena. My first stint in the community was the for SPCA. I prefer to make donations to groups that spend a very low percentage on administration costs such as Doctors Without Borders.
I do think it’s important – my community IS my home; I want the best for it!
I think it’s very important. It fosters a sense of community; of being responsible for each other
its very important to give back in your community and to make contributions for a stronger community.
I do feel it’s important to give back to my community. I’ve been in a position before when I was the one needing help/donations & now it’s close to my heart to give to those who need it. We donate to the homeless shelter, women’s shelter, & to children with special needs.
Yes it is important to help out my community. It helps out my neighbours and the neighbourhood kids.
It is important for us to donate and give back to everyone who helped us out when we were in need.
I think it is important to volunteer in your community. It helps your neighbours and builds your community. It also makes you feel good and you will feel more connected to your community.
It is very important to volunteer in the community. I not only volunteer in my children’s school, but I sit on the Board of little League as well as coach both my kids in baseball and soccer.
I think it’s important to be part of your community and give back by volunteering. A community is only as good as the people are in it.
I think it’s important to the community. It’s a win win good for you and the recipient.
Yes, it is important to me to donate or volunteer in my community because it makes a community stronger when people help each other out.
It is important for me to volunteer in my community (I have worked with Big Sisters and done tons of things at my childrens’ school) and I have donated to food banks, libraries, charities, arts groups, medical causes. I stopped volunteering a few years ago since I felt that I had done way more than most people do and I was tired of doing it -now I only work for pay. Eventually I may go back to it but when you start feeling taken advantage of it is time to take a break