A Message From Our President of the Volunteers of Trillium Health Centre

Percy Elliott, President, Volunteers of Trillium Health Centre

This has been a year of celebration for the Volunteers of Trillium Health Centre. Our corporate holdings and various fund raising activities continue to produce exceptional profits, allowing us to turn over $800,000 to Trillium Health Centre.  Our greatest moment of pride came at the Annual Volunteer Banquet where we made the final installment on our $5-million pledge to the Trillium Health Centre Foundation.  This is a remarkable accomplishment and a testament to the strength of our volunteer team.  Since 1998, the Volunteers of Trillium has donated $8.3 million to our health centre.

The Volunteers of Trillium took on a new role this year, assuming responsibility for retail property management within Trillium.  Among our first tasks was successfully leasing the commercial space in the new Clinical and Administration Building.  On the horizon, we will soon be launching a new 50-50 lottery for staff and volunteers.

A new fundraiser in conjunction with the public school board was launched. Entitled 'Have a Heart for Change', we partnered with the Peel District School Board where children donated coins in support of our Cardiac Challenge fundraising campaign.

With Trillium's expansion of the new inpatient wing in Mississauga and at our West Toronto location, we needed to recruit more volunteers. A recruitment campaign by the Volunteer Resources Department provided very successful, generating over 600 applications. To date, 150 new volunteers have been trained and are now active across Trillium.  They have become part of our 1,100-strong volunteer team who is always willing to lend a hand anywhere within Trillium.  Our volunteers generously gave over 100,000 hours of their time last year.

We always welcome new volunteers to our group and encourage you to give serious consideration to offering Trillium a few hours of your time each week.  It pays you great rewards.

Board of Directors

Back row: Doug Mabee, Ajay Chadha, Treasurer, Percy Elliott, Past President, Umar Farooq, Joseph Ferraro.
Front row: Margaret Power, Jacqueline Jabbour, Barbara Zelenczuk, Marianne

DiLullo, President, Carol MacKay, Pat Comartin, Secretary, Debbie Mookerjee.
Absent: Faye Falconer, Navpreet Rana, Mark Stevens