Our Charity Work

Since 2007, to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of LON, we have held an annual fundraiser to give back to our community. Members are asked to submit their suggestions and then vote on the charity recipient each year. We have raised tens of thousands of dollars in support of charities such as The Alzheimer's Society, Seasons Centre for Grieving Children, the 4th Line Park, Hospice Simcoe, Gilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka, the local Firefighters, the Women and Children's Shelter of Barrie, Anne Doucette, Youth Haven, Habitat for Humanity and Seasons Centre for Grieving Children. Many local businesses are perennial  supporters of the event, either through donations to our silent auction or sponsoring a hole during the event. 

Our 2024 event was in support of THE SHARING PLACE FOOD CENTRE in Orillia. You can find out more about this important charity here. The event was held at Horseshoe Resort Valley Club course on Wednesday September 11th. The weather was perfect - the outcome fantastic!  With a number of fundraising activities both online & at the event we were able to raise an amazing amount...... $37,885.09!  A special thank you to all our volunteers, sponsors, donors, and our steadfast supporters The Backporch Boys! Also a big thanks to Horseshoe Resort for their great support of our event.


Below is a little video of the day showing how much fun we had raising funds for our charity partner.
Lisa, Barb, Sher (Green Haven Outreach Support) & Donna.

The 17th LON Charity Event was in Support of Green Haven Shelter for Women. Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 will be a memorable event for many! Perhaps most importantly for the recipients of our endeavours...Green Haven Shelter for Women, in Orillia. Pictured is Lisa, Barb, Sher(Green Haven) & Donna at a fund raising event on the labour day weekend hosted by the three LON ladies in support of our charity event.


The final total for Green Haven was $30,909.90 !!

In 2022, we worked to raise funds for Mariposa House Hospice and the final tally  was a grand total of $19,899.58!


Pictured is our MC, Carey Moran along with Bob Shatilla and event chair, Marnie Redmond. 


Bob and his team from the Backporch Boys - who support us each and every year - ran a Drive4Dough and made $900 for Mariposa House Hospice!! This is the cheque presentation. Thanks so much BPB's!!

As mentioned above, we have raised funds for many organizations, including Seasons Centre for Grieving Children.  


In 2021, in spite of the pandemic, we raised over $16,000!  On November 18th, Kim Sanderson, Bev Jackson and Jane Shiells represented the LON Horseshoe at their "Celebration of Support Feature Wall" unveiling at the Season's Centre for Grieving Children.  With our 2021 Charity Event and also proceeds from the event in 2009 we raised in total just under $25k and are recognized for our contributions on the wall.  It was a wonderful, heart warming event with two young ladies speaking to their experiences at the centre.
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