Blue Grouse Estate Winery is proud to announce their April fundraising campaign resulted in a $26,587 donation to Nourish Cowichan Society, a Cowichan Valley charity that offers meals and food hampers for children in 18 regional schools.
The more than $26,000 donation from Blue Grouse will allow Nourish Cowichan to provide 13,250 meals for kids and their families.
For the third consecutive year, in honour of BC Wine Month, Blue Grouse asked consumers to buy its wines with a commitment to donate $1 for every bottle sold through any channel (wine stores, restaurants, online, and directly at the winery), to Nourish Cowichan. In addition, every dollar raised from bottle sales was matched by the winery’s proprietors, the Brunner family.
With the support of their wine club, sales teams, and trade partners, the winery closed the month with 10,734 bottles sold, marking its best sales month ever and its biggest donation to Nourish Cowichan.
For those who wished to donate without the purchase of alcohol, the winery set up a fundraising page on Canada Helps, which raised nearly $5,000 from friends of the winery and members of the community.
“Over the last three years, our family has become increasingly aware of the important work done by Nourish Cowichan. We couldn’t be happier knowing that our Blue Grouse team is as passionate about this cause as we are,” says Paul Brunner, owner of Blue Grouse. “The team puts a lot of effort into our campaign and without them, we would not have exceeded this year’s $25,000 goal. We hope to make this fundraising campaign a Blue Grouse tradition so that we can help more and more families in our community in the years to come.”
Fatima Da Silva, executive director and co-founder of Nourish Cowichan thanks the Blue Grouse team for their amazing effort. “We are very grateful to Paul and Cristina Brunner and the entire team at Blue Grouse Winery for their commitment to Cowichan kids. With this donation, we are able to continue helping our community and making sure kids go to school to learn without having to worry about their next meal.” Nourish Cowichan needs community help year-round; to donate to the charity go here.
