2025 Annual Report

A message from our CEO and Board President shared in our 2025 Annual Report.

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2025 Annual Report Cover page Celebrating 50 Years of Hope

This past year has been a year of celebration and growth for The Hope Centre. Throughout most of 2024, we celebrated 50 years of service to the Welland community. We celebrated our founders, who, way back in 1974, identified several gaps in supports for vulnerable populations and addressed them by creating multiple service organizations. Many of these organizations continue to provide valuable supports to our community, including Birchway, Niagara Peninsula Homes and Niagara Community Legal Clinic among others.

We celebrated the 2014 acquisition of our current building on King Street and the move to a Community Hub model, a model that continues to provide multiple services for our population under one roof. Thanks to this vision, our community can access Canadian Mental Health Association, Community Addition Services of Niagara, Birchway Niagara, REACH Niagara and OATC…in addition to the multiple services provided by The Hope Centre, all under one roof.

We celebrated the current version of The Hope Centre, an organization that has continued to expand and grow to help address the ever increasing Food and Housing Insecurity crisis’s currently facing our community.

Most of all, we celebrated all of the volunteers, staff and board members who have played a role in the impact this agency has had on countless lives in our community.

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