Kempenfelt Quilters' Guild
This project was approved by KQG Executive as a new Charity Project in March 2013. Hospice Simcoe is a facility that provides for the needs of people in all of Simcoe County who are dying. There is no cost to the families to use their services and they are a non-profit agency. They asked for […]
The KQG has had a long tradition of creating quilts for charitable causes. In 2000, Brenda Wauchop attended a show at Casa Loma in Toronto at which quilts were auctioned to raise money for breast cancer research. It was decided this was a worthwhile activity for KQG. Brenda coordinated the effort for a number of […]
The Kempenfelt Quilters’ Guild has been making quilts for this program since 2000. These quilts are donated to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) two to three times a year, depending on the number of quilts. The quilts are designed to cover the isolets housing these at-risk babies, to restrict […]
Annually, the Guild makes donations to the Salvation Army. In the past, individual Guild members have created stockings or Santa Sacks for children and filled them with all kinds of things to delight under-privileged girls and boys served by the Salvation Army. There were usually 40-55 stockings brought to our December Christmas gathering to be […]