Supporting Our Hospitals

To help improve the quality of life in our communities, we are proud to partner with and support local hospitals, hospital foundations and other health-focused organizations. We dedicate a large portion of our community resources (including funds, volunteers, and food donations) toward the purchase of much needed medical equipment as well as to programs and community events throughout Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.

Help Out One Buck at a Time
Running from February 15 to March 13, 2012, the Help Out One Buck at a Time campaign raised over $64,000 through in store stales of 4lb. bags of Buck Brand certified organic Navel Oranges as well as customer and staff donations. Buck Brand Citrus owner Lisle Babcock also provided a personal donation of $20,000, pushing the grand total to $84,742.00.

"Thrifty Foods and their customers have a strong history of giving, ensuring that Vancouver Island's patients and their families have the best health care possible," said Melanie McKenzie, Executive Director of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation. "Also, my sincere thanks to Buck Brand grower Lisle Babcock, whose generosity was instrumental in this effort. Through our Building Care Together campaign, this donation will help to purchase state-of-the-art medical equipment for the Island's world-class Patient Care Centre."

Hospital foundations included in the Help Out One Buck at a Time fundraising campaign included the Delta, Peace Arch, Fraser Valley Health Care, Eagle Ridge, Lions Gate, Royal Columbian, Victoria, Saanich Peninsula, Cowichan District , Nanaimo and District, Lady Minto Gulf Island, Campbell River and St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation.





Pumpkins for Charity
Each October, our stores participate in our Pumpkins for Charity fundraiser. Since 2008, our customers and staff have helped us raise over $140,000 for local hospitals in all Island and Lower Mainland communities served by Thrifty Foods.

BC Children's Hospital Festival of Trees
Every December, Thrifty Foods employees volunteer to decorate Christmas trees in support of the BC Children's Hospital (BCCH). Visitors to the "forests" of trees - in Victoria, Sooke, and Vancouver - are able to vote for their favourite tree as well as donate funds directly to the BCCH.

Gingerbread Decorating

gingerbread2011Each year, Thrifty Foods employees volunteer their time at several BC hospitals to help young patients build gingerbread houses and decorate gingerbread men in celebration of the holiday season. Over forty our volunteers spend an evening with the kids and their families decorating Thrifty Foods gingerbread.

On Vancouver Island, Thrifty Foods volunteers join families at the Victoria General Hospital to build Gingerbread Houses and decorate gingerbread men with patients in the pediatric care unit.

Pictured at left are the employees who helped children at BC Children's Hospital decorate gingerbread on December 1, 2011.