KAWARTHA LAKES, ON (July 13, 2023) – Call these quilters the fabric of their community when it comes to supporting worthwhile causes.

Members of Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild present a cheque for nearly $6,000The Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild has demonstrated that with its recent donation of $5,934 to Five Counties Children’s Centre. The funds were raised over the past year through the sale of raffle tickets for a large, handmade quilt, baby quilt, artwork and placemat set – a draw which Five Counties Children’s Centre helped to promote. The winning raffle tickets were announced at the Guild’s quilt show at the end of May, and the final fundraising tally was confirmed.

Members of the Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild recently presented a cheque for the nearly $6,000 to Five Counties. All of the money will be used to reduce wait times and directly fund treatment services provided by Five Counties for kids, youth and their families in the City of Kawartha Lakes.

“We’re extremely grateful to the Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild for their generosity, especially when this amount is the largest donation guild members have ever provided us,” says Linsey Kampf, the Annual Giving Coordinator with Five Counties. “Ensuring children can get the treatment services they need when they need them results in better outcomes, and these funds will help dozens of kids in Kawartha Lakes get access to quicker care.”

For its part, the Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild appreciates the community’s support in purchasing raffle tickets for the quilt draw.

“This is our largest donation ever made to Five Counties, and we appreciate the public support of our quilt raffle draw so that kids in Kawartha Lakes can get access to important treatment services close to home,” says Jennifer Currie, a member of the Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild.

For more than 15 years, the Lindsay Creative Quilters Guild has supported Five Counties with funds and also donations of handmake quilt items used by the Centre in its fundraising auctions.

Five Counties Children’s Centre provides speech, physio, and occupational therapies, as well a other kids’ treatment services, in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, Northumberland and Haliburton. This past year was a record-setting one, as the Centre served more than 6,200 children and youth in its region – including approximately 1,300 kids/youth in Kawartha Lakes and over 230 clients in Haliburton County.

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