President’s Message

2025 was another very successful year for the Needlework Guild of Canada, Toronto Chapter. This is due to the efforts of so many. A big thank you to all of our members, convenors and volunteers. A very special thank you to all of our donors. With your generous donations we were able to purchase new clothing and other necessities to help meet the changing needs of our agencies. Please consider making a financial donation to help with our efforts. The easiest way is to do an e-transfer to the email shown in the donate page of our website.

Distribution Day 2025 was extremely successful. We distributed 7,702 handmade items and 9,620 purchased items to our agencies, who helped 283,037 clients. Many thanks to Carole, Cathy, Wendy and Sarah for their hard work and planning to prepare for this day.

We have more followers on our social media pages, especially on Instagram, where we now have 230 followers. I encourage you to look at both our Facebook and Instagram pages and to consider following them and sharing our posts. This will get us even more followers.

In closing, I would like to thank our board and executive members for their work throughout the year. We all give thanks to Yorkminster Park Baptist Church for generously accommodating us for our special events held throughout the year.

I know that 2026 will be even more successful with all of our continued efforts and dedication.

Cathy Reith, President