At Chalmers Community Services Centre (CCSC), we offer a warm and respectful place where our guests can receive food, choose clothing and enjoy company and conversation. In addition, such items and services as diapers, household items, mending, personal support and referral tocommunity resources are available. All of this is offered free of charge and in […]
Donor Management Clerk At Chalmers Community Services Centre (CCSC), we offer a warm and respectful place where our guests can receive food, choose clothing and enjoy company and conversation. In addition, such items and services as diapers, household items, mending, personal support and referral to community resources are available. All of this is offered free […]
“Respect & Dignity for All” – It’s our motto, our mission and our guiding star. It dictates how and why we do what we do. Our first priority has, and always will be, to create a safe and welcoming space for all. We work hard to ensure that Chalmers is a place where guests, staff […]
As community services continue to close, Chalmers’ Food Pantry remains open and becomes even more important to the people we serve. We are already seeing more guests in April than we did in March and we expect those numbers to continue to increase as the ongoing pandemic pushes more people in our community into food […]
Every year, the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination publishes an Emergency Food Services Guide which lists all the organizations which offer essential emergency food in our community. In the 2019 guide, there are 21 emergency food services listed in Guelph. Chalmers makes up two of those services with our Downtown and West […]
Hillary Schlaht is a member of our board of directors. If you’re Hillary, you do a lot of wonderful things, beyond her regular board-type obligations. You manage all the social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, by making a monthly social media plan and keeping all CCSC’s followers super informed. Hillary has ramped up our […]
This email newsletter is a terrific thing, isn’t it? We get to communicate with you once a month and you get a good sense of what’s happening here at Chalmers Community Services Centre. Well, the email newsletter is written, designed, developed and consistently sent out to all of you on a monthly basis by one […]
At Chalmers Community Services Centre, we run on the power of volunteers. You’ve probably met a lot of them if you’ve walked into either of our locations when we’re open to the community during the week. However, there are a lot of volunteers you may never see, because they are busy working behind-the-scenes. For instance, […]
Here at Chalmers Community Services Centre (CCSC), we work really hard to ensure both our locations are welcoming and safe places for all. We prioritize a dignified approach and our volunteers and staff are tasked with treating everyone who walks through our doors with respect. In practice, though, respectfully welcoming every single person can be […]
In partnership with Immigrant Services, we will be offering a social group at our Chalmers West location on Thursdays between 9 and 10 am, where we’ll be knitting and playing games together. Fun, right? So, we are seeking donations of yarn, needles, scissors, beads, string. As well, donations of games like chess, backgammon and decks […]
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