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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Letter: Willowbank seeking funding help from community
Letter to the editor. FILE

The following letter to the community was submitted by the board of Willowbank in Queenston.

As you know, Willowbank is a unique private career college and has been on the vanguard of heritage conservation and the adaptive reuse of existing buildings since 2006.

And, as you have been hearing, we are on an upward trajectory to even greater significance.

Yet we’re wrestling with the rapidly growing financial reality of operating our storied School of Restoration Arts. Your support is crucial to its success.

Tuition covers just over a third of the annual cost of providing each student with the best education in heritage conservation.

As Willowbank is not eligible for provincial funding, we must make up the difference through the generosity of our community.

To bridge our current operating gap, we seek to raise $30,000 this season. In early 2024, we will also need to invest $125,000 to construct a third-floor external exit stair.

The generosity of our community members not only helps provide students with a great education but also assists in producing passionate heritage professionals who champion the role of cultural heritage preservation in our communities here in Niagara and around the world. Your support makes a difference.

Consider Willowbank as you think about your annual charitable contributions during this season of giving.

Contribute to Willowbank either through Canada Helps (canadahelps.org/en/charities/Willowbank) or directly to Willowbank at PO Box 212, 14487 Niagara Parkway, Queenston.

Willowbank is a registered charity so you will receive a tax receipt.

Your generosity today will make a difference to the financial sustainability of Willowbank as an innovative institution shaping new approaches to the stewardship of historic places and sustainable communities, now and for generations to come.

John Scott, chair, Victoria Broer, Patrick Little, Elizabeth Oliver-Malone, Carmen Masi, Emily Bright, Clinton Brown, Steve Hudson, Sasha Knight, Andrew Humeniuk, Frank Racioppo
Willowbank board of directors

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