Meet Our Sponsors – Ryan Ladner, Ladner’s Source for Sports

Ladner’s Source for Sports is a brand new Dream Cottage sponsor - they provided a Summer Fun Early Bird Prize for this year's campaign. We had a chance to catch up with Ryan Ladner to discuss some of his mentors and to learn a bit more about why supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters is important [...]
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Indigo Love of Reading Foundation Community Response Grant Ignites the Potential of Youth!

We can’t thank the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation enough, for giving us a $12,500 Community Response Grant to purchase books for the youth we serve in our community to read and learn during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the beginning of the pandemic, the youth we serve were not only cut off from their supports […]

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Thanks to everyone who made our Big/Little Christmas Party so wonderful!

We want to thank some pretty special people who helped us throw a wonderful Christmas Party for our Bigs and Littles. Our friends at the Rodd Royalty hosted our annual Christmas party again this year.  We would like to thank the staff & management for providing everything we needed – a craft room, space for […]

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Three of our amazing Big Brothers get a moment in the spotlight thanks to Brandvan!

For the past year, the Brandvan co-founders Keith Jones and Vickie Hsieh have been driving across Canada or working in their home base of Toronto, donating their services to 13 charities, and we were lucky enough to be one of them! They stopped in PEI during their Canada-wide tour to help us build a “I’m […]

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A Family Legacy Built On A Love Of Hockey And Helping Kids

Mentoring, philantrophy, and a love of hockey passed between generations can become a powerful legacy.  Sterling MacLeod, a chef at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, had a passion for hockey.  In fact, he often stayed up late to watch double headers and could regularly be found watching two games at once.  Although he was an ardent […]

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