Milton community walks - #cnoy16

It was phenomenal to stand in the Milton Sports Centre hall amidst the electrifying buzz as people queued up to register with the 10 registration desks for our 3rd Coldest Night of the Year. 

Well done Milton. You should be very proud of yourselves.

Milton Transitional Housing Event Directors, Lorna Turner & Margot Johnson celebrate exceeding our $40,000 #cnoy16 goal.

We had six local councillors, our local MP, sponsors, media, volunteers and those so young they could barely walk to those have walked wiles of Milton pavements in the lifetimes. Just extraordinary.

Indira Naidoo-Harris, Milton MP welcomes back walkers to theMilton Sports Centre and praising the incredible sense of community.

More than 50% of businesses and charities cease to exist within 3-years. Milton Transitional Housing meanwhile continues to expand in the roots in the community. It was fabulous to see the kids thoroughly enjoying themselves, aided by cake at Sobeys!

Empty Bowls sponsor Lynn Dickinson, Simply Creative, goes all out!

It was amazing to witness not just in the Milton Sports Centre but in the knowledge that the first walks set out at 3.45pm ET in Newfoundland and Labrador and that at 8.15pm ET those of Vancouver Island were just stepping out. An incredible 92 communities the breadth of Canada out there walking in balmy mild weather in support of those at risk of homelessness. At 6pm we were trending on Twitter!

It is important to remind ourselves why we were all out there walking the streets of Milton to raise both funds and awareness of those at risk of homelessness in our community and others across Canada.

Wendy Schau helps describe exactly why Milton Transitional Housing is important for those at risk of homelessness.

The Coldest Night of the Year scoreboard showed 83% towards its $4million target. The money is anticipated to keep rolling in, so the target remains achievable.

The national scorecard

We could not have run this event without the generosity of our sponsors and all the volunteers. Lorna Turner and Margot Johnson however do utterly deserve to be singled out and we are all inspired by their dedication, excellence and passion. Thank you ladies.

Thanks to all our incredible sponsors

There are lots of photos on the Milton Transitional Housing Facebook page. You can look back at out @MiltonTH1 tweets or search #cnoy16 to see activity across Canada.

Coldest Night of the Year - Special Charity Spotlight

Each Friday I run a Charity Spotlight feature on my business blog. It seemed highly appropriate to devote today's spotlight feature to Coldest Night of the Year. 

Read the special Charity Spotlight - Coldest Night of the Year here

Here is what Brian Carney, CEO of Blue Sea Philanthropy added to our recent discussion for our Charity Spotlight feature.

"Charities like MTH exemplify the type of charity we love working with though. Big community involvement. Fun, engaged leadership. A big vision for the future and from our stand point in CNOY, just really great people to work with on this national event. Donna, Lorna - the whole team has been a pleasure to work with. Milton will have a great walk this year again." 

The CNOY scoreboard is great to watch as it goes up every 15 minutes. There is still time to join a team, create a new team, donate and volunteer. Good luck everyone.

I am really excited to be walking tomorrow. Go The Flakes!!! I will be tweeting too using #cnoy16. Please follow and post too. I would love to be able to take part in each one of the 92 walks across Canada.

CNOY Launch Party today

Come down to our Coldest Night of the Year launch party today at the Milton Sports Centre from 1.30pm.

The launch party runs today Saturday, January 9 between 1:30-3:00pm in the Banquet Room of the Milton Sports Centre. Bring all of your friends and family too. We will have snacks, snowflake crafts, snowball (indoor) games and prizes galore for the kids.

Come and register your team or volunteer to help

The Milton COLDEST NIGHT WALK this year is on Saturday, February 20 with registration from 4–5pm (along with team photos, games and snacks), and the walk itself will start at 5:15 from the Milton Sports Center (Banquet Room). We’ll walk through the Willmott neighbourhood. After your walk there will be warm drinks, hot soup and sweet treats waiting for you back in the Banquet Room.

Register to walk NOW

Promote #cnoy16 on social media

Show you support for Coldest Night of Year across Canada by using hashtag #cnoy16 across all social media platforms.

Please share this post.

Coldest Night of the Year Milton Launch Party

Come down to our Coldest Night of the Year Milton launch party on January 9 at the Milton Sports Centre.

The launch party runs Saturday, January 9 between 1:30-3:00pm in the Banquet Room of the Milton Sports Centre. Bring all of your friends and family too. We will have snacks, snowflake crafts, snowball (indoor) games and prizes galore for the kids.

Come and register your team or volunteer to help

The Milton COLDEST NIGHT WALK this year is on Saturday, February 20 with registration from 4–5pm (along with team photos, games and snacks), and the walk itself will start at 5:15 from the Milton Sports Center (Banquet Room). We’ll walk through the Willmott neighbourhood. After your walk there will be warm drinks, hot soup and sweet treats waiting for you back in the Banquet Room.

Register to walk NOW

Promote #cnoy16 on social media

Show you support for Coldest Night of Year across Canada by using hashtag #cnoy16 across all social media platforms.

Please share this post.

Coldest Night of the Year 2016

Giving Tuesday provided a great platform for the launch of Coldest Night of the Year 2016 which takes place on Saturday February 20, 2016.



Here is my Opencity Inc Charity Spotlight blog post about Blue Sea Philanthropy who run the nationwide Coldest Night of the Year campaign. Milton Transitional Housing will again be one of the partner charities.

There will be more information through the MTH Facebook page.