Hello Friends,

The Providence Bay Playground Project recently received a national award from the LET THEM BE KIDS foundation! This grant assists schools and communities to help purchase and install playground equipment while strengthening the community as a whole. Every dollar raised by our community will be matched dollar for dollar by Let Them Be Kids!

Please have a look at the following letter from the Providence Bay Playground Project and take a moment to consider how we can work together to help this very exciting, worthy venture.

Thank you.

Providence Bay beach Playground Project

Vision

Providence Bay is a wonderful community that draws people from all walks of life. Our vision is that this project will foster pride and ownership by working towards a common goal and legacy, thereby creating a stronger more united community, empowered to create positive change. By actively engaging newcomers and part-time residents in the project, we also see this project as a way to create new bonds, reinvigorate our spirit, and enrich our community fabric.

Project Description

• The Need - The wooden play structure on the playground on Providence Bay beach has been showing signs of wear and tear.  Many community members have identified this as an important issue. Each summer thousands of visiting children, and hundreds of local families from Manitoulin Island, enjoy the playground and we hope to provide them with the best possible equipment!

• A National Award - Our project has been selected as a recipient of a national award and matching grant from the LET THEM BE KIDS foundation! This grant assists schools and communities like ours to help purchase and install playground equipment while strengthening the community as a whole. Every dollar raised by our community will be matched dollar for dollar by Let Them Be Kids! Along with this prestigious award the Providence Bay/Spring Bay Lions Club and the Municipality of Central Manitoulin have received funding from LAMBAC, Hydro One and the Ride Manitoulin Bike rally, which have all donated funds towards the completion of this great project.

• More Than A New Playground – This project will include the installation of a number of activity/fitness stations, benches and tables, the planting of trees, as well as the revitalization of the beach area.  We aim to create a social hub where all residents of Providence Bay, both long-term and short-term, can connect, resulting in a more tolerant and welcoming community. If our goal of $100,000 is reached (and matched by LTBK) this playground will be epic in proportions!

• A Tremendous Opportunity - Our children will learn a lesson far greater than what it means to get a new playground. By modeling active volunteerism, leadership, democracy and problem-solving skills to our children the desired outcome is the creation of a generation of critical thinking, actively engaged, global citizens.

• The Event - On Saturday April 28th, 2012, hundreds of community members, students, parents, teachers, will all join together as a team to build the new playground and undertake a number of other improvements to the outdoor play and field area, all in ONE DAY.

We are asking you to join and support us in this exciting venture and would like to THANK YOU by offering your organization or company the following incentives:

Platinum  - Donation of $1,500 or more

• Your name or logo as title sponsor on a bench or bike rack at playground
• Your name or logo located on front sign of project
• Banner with your name or logo on display on Build Day (to be provided by you)
• Your name or logo as title sponsor in all of our media advertisements (local newspapers, school newsletter)

• Your name or logo as title sponsor on our Build Day T-shirts
• A framed thank you picture signed by the kids
• Your name or logo on our LTBK website

Gold – Donation of $700

• Your name or logo on bronze plaque on quarry stone at playground
• Banner with your name or logo on display on Build Day (to be provided by you)
• Your name or logo in all of our media advertisements (local newspapers, school newsletter)
• Your name or logo as sponsor on our Build Day T-shirts
• A framed thank you picture signed by the kids
• Your name or logo on our LTBK website

Silver - Donation of $350

• Your name or logo in all of our media advertisements (local newspapers, school newsletter)
• Your name or logo on our Build Day T-shirts
• A framed thank you picture signed by the kids
• Your name or logo on our LTBK website

Bronze - Donation of $150

• A framed thank you picture
• Your name or logo on our LTBK website

IN-KIND DONATIONS

There are also many opportunities for in-kind sponsorship. In-kind donation values will also be recognized as described above. Please contact us. Possible in-kind donations include: bobcat and operator, pea gravel for surfacing, concrete, lumber, lunches for volunteers on build day, and more.

We appreciate any and all donations!

Additional Plans/Refurbishments planned for Build Day:

• Additional Benches & Picnic tables
• Activity/Fitness stations
• Playground installation

AN INITIATIVE OF:

Providence Bay and Spring Bay Lions Club

Municipality of Central Manitioulin

Community Living Manitoulin