Sponsor  the FWB Program

Why does the Sherwood Heights Community League run the Friends with Benefits Program? 

It's more than just a membership, it's part of our community's continuing legacy of fun, caring and sharing.  ​

Selling memberships allows our League to continue to provide valuable resources, connection, networking and fun events for our community members, regardless of membership status. Although we love selling memberships, we never require a membership to participate in any of our activities or programs (except voting at the Annual General Meeting). 

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Some of our goals of fundraising through membership sales include:

• Procurement of assets required for programming and events

  • Currently we rent or borrow equipment when necessary; purchasing equipment would allow us to save on rental fees, alleviate pressures of needing to borrow equipment, and allow us to loan equipment if community members require it.​

• Raise new funds for community events

  • Self-explanatory - the more funds we can raise, the more events and activities we can host! Our goal is to organize a handful of completely free or "pay what you can" events each year. This helps us to ensure all members of our community are included and able to participate without financial barriers.​

• Advertise to increase awareness and membership

  • You've made it here, so obviously you know we exist. But did you know, there is a portion of our immediate and surround community who have no idea we're here and doing awesome things? Our League uses funds to help advertise through mailouts, printed poster, newspaper, sponsored ads on social media, radio ads, etc. We have a large demographic of people within our community and not everyone uses social media. We need to make sure we reach everyone in some form!​