Each year a generous group of Sandycove men & women donate all their time & energy to organize a very successful Community Fashion Show to support RVH Hospital Cancer Centre. This fashion show has a different approach to stocking items for the show by allowing residents to clean out their closets over items that have “shrunk” over the past year to donate to this two day sale & show.
Preparations begin months ahead and the Sandycove Ladies run a well organized army of volunteers to gather all the clothes, accessories, jewellery & small home decorating items then spend days sorting & pricing items for sale while the men set up all the racks of clothing & tables for the big event. There is also a barbeque lunch for all the hungry shoppers.
The real fun begins Saturday evening with the fashion show. Sandycove residents model some of the items donated to the sale and the long awaited grand finale is the men’s comical skit on the women’s fashions. The sale continues with a final day of everything you can fit in a shopping bag for a small fee. All remaining items are donated to local shelters & goodwill.
This charity event donates 100% of the money raised from ticket & clothing sales to the Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre at Royal Victoria Hospital. Last year this group raised $6,525.00 at their event. This brings their generous total to $36,160.00 in donations from past fashion shows from 2005.
Putting on this event is no easy task and shows the generous heart of our Sandycove community as they rally behind community causes. The Sandycove residents are the heart of Innisfil – embracing life, enhancing the lives of others and reaching out to help those who need a helping hand.
Congratulations to the many hard working women and men of Sandycove.
