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Smell This Aromatherapy Visits Beauty Night

January 15, 2013 By Caroline Leave a Comment

Every month our friends from Smell This visit our Beauty Night ladies. They set up a scent bar. For those who have never been to a scent bar, this is an opportunity to create your own “pure” fume. Smell This brings the essential oils and you are able to create your own scent.

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Every month, they visit our Beauty Night ladies. One of my favourite sights is seeing the ladies naming their “pure” fumes. As they sit around the round tables and decide which scents they love the most, they share names. “My Own Creation”, “Heavenly”, and “Tyla” are some of the names of “pure” fumes they created.

While the Scent Bar is in session, our Team Beauty Night volunteers are offering services. Hair cuts, foot care, manicures, mini facials, brow shaping and relaxation massage are some of the services offered by our volunteers. The conversations, the laughter and friendships that blossom during our events are the threads that build the tapestry of our community.

If you would like to join Team Beauty Night, our next volunteer orientations are:

January 27 in Surrey

February 5th in Vancouver

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Beauty Night Featured on My Vancouver

January 14, 2013 By Caroline Leave a Comment

After being the recipient of BC Ideas National Impact Award, we are thrilled to be featured on My Vancouver.

Filed Under: In the Media Tagged With: BC Ideas, beauty night society, charity, DTES, my vancouver, telus tv, vancouver bc, volunteer

Santa’s Helpers Gear up for 12 Days of Xmas Campaign

December 5, 2012 By Caroline 1 Comment

During the holiday season, one of my favorite parts is watching community come together to spread joy. One of the ways we do that is through our 12 Days of Xmas Campaign. Fashion Designer, Nancy Perreault designs a stocking. Community members sew and decorate them.

Some of our Santa’s Helpers collect donations to fill the stockings and help deliver them to women and youth in shelters, 1st and 2nd stage housing, drop in centres and hospitals. From December 12-24th, volunteers dressed as elves deliver stockings and Christmas cheer.

Volunteer Paris Mallin started volunteering for Beauty Night with her mother, Tamara three years ago. For the 2nd year, Paris has asked her classmates at Ecole Sherwood Park to help. On December 3rd, Paris and her grade 3 class decorated stockings that will be filled by volunteers this weekend.

We’ve had hundreds of volunteers help sew, decorate and fill the stockings. Some of the volunteers are from York House, Carson Graham Secondary, Bal Moral Secondary, churches, girl guides and corporations. Here are some of the snap shots of our elves at Ecole Sherwood Park and the stockings they have decorated.

Paris Mallin and her classmates at Ecole Sherwood Park hold up the stockings they have decorated.

Filed Under: Donations/Fundraising, Events, Xmas Stocking Drive Tagged With: 12 days of xmas, beauty night society, charity, Christmas, DTES, Ecole Sherwood Park, Paris Mallin, Tamara Mallin, xmas

Beauty Night Wins BC Ideas National Impact Investment Award

November 29, 2012 By Caroline Leave a Comment

On behalf of Beauty Night, thanks to all of you that voted for us in the BC Ideas Competition. Over 466 ideas were submitted. There are 33 BC Ideas winners and recipients of $270, 000. We are pleased to report that we are the recipient of their National Impact Investment award of $15,000 provided by J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. This money will be put towards expanding our current programs and activities to better serve women living in poverty in the Downtown Eastside and beyond. For more information about Beauty Night’s award, as well as the other award recipients please visit BC Ideas.

Filed Under: In the Media Tagged With: Ashoka, BC Ideas, beauty night society, change makers, charity, downtown eastside, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, poverty

BC Ideas Finalist - Beauty Night Society

October 26, 2012 By Caroline Leave a Comment

Finalist in BC Ideas Contest - Beauty Night Society�
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“We are thrilled to be one of the 11 finalists for the BC Ideas competition and need your help to be one of the top three finalists. If we are chosen, $15, 000 would be invested in our cause. This would help us in our mission to build self esteem and change lives for women and youth living in poverty. In the past twelve years, we have given 26, 000 makeovers thanks to 500 volunteers. Just imagine what we could do with additional support,” says Caroline MacGillivray, Beauty Night Founder and Executive Director.

BC Ideas is an online competition, which asks British Columbians like you to bring forward innovative ideas and programs that address the challenges facing our province.

Starting at 9am, please vote for your favorite finalist beginning October 26. The two-week voting period (Oct 26th-Nov 9th) is your chance to engage your network and community of innovators to cast their vote for your innovation! The top three vote getters after the voting period will each receive a $15,000 People’s Choice investment.

More than $250,000 in investments will be awarded to top entries. Entrants will also have the opportunity to access additional investments following the competition. Please vote and ask your friends to vote for our cause too. This can be done through facebook or the BC Ideas website.

Join the BC Ideas community, where you can connect with like-minded British Columbians, read the latest news on solutions working in BC, and share your thoughts with leaders, experts, and people just like you. Check out some of the solutions below. Welcome to a community of possibility, of problem solvers, of British Columbians