West Broadway Community Organization will be hosting 4 workshops as part of a series in January 2021.

TENANT RIGHTS: ADVOCATING FOR YOURSELF, BUILDING SOLIDARITY WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS

Jan 19, 3-4PM  Evictions and Tenant Rights, led by Dan Gilson from Legal Aid Manitoba

Jan 21, 3-4PM   Evictions and Tenant Solidarity, led by Yutaka Dirks from the West Broadway Tenants Committee 

Jan 26, 3-4PM   Rent Increases and Tenant Rights, led by Dan Gilson from Legal Aid Manitoba

Jan 28, 3-4PM  Rent Increases and Tenant Solidarity, led by Yutaka Dirks from the West Broadway Tenants Committee

Workshops will take place virtually. Participants are invited to attend one, some, or all!

For more information or to register, please email housing@westbroadway.mb.ca

Thank you to everyone involved: Legal Aid Manitoba, West Broadway Tenants Committee. Thank you to our funders: Manitoba Law Foundation, Province of Manitoba, City of Winnipeg.

The Facebook event is linked here. Please feel free to share the event and posters below.

The West Broadway 2020-21 Small Grants Fund is accepting applications. (DEADLINE FOR FIRST INTAKE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 6th at Midnight.) Note that all projects must be completed and reports submitted by March 15, 2021. Please see the Small Grants page of our website for details and applications forms.

West Broadway Community Organization is creating a new Housing and Community Plan that will direct our work over the next 5 years. Community consultation and survey responses are critical to this work. 

The survey can be accessed here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/WBCOsurvey 

If you live, work, volunteer, or use services in the West Broadway neighbourhood, we want to hear from you!

Please support the creation of an Indigenous led, permaculture garden and meeting place at the old Klinic Building (545 Broadway) in the heart of West Broadway. Elder Audrey Logan has been educating and guiding inner city gardeners for decades, sharing her vast knowledge of traditional agricultural practices with anyone lucky enough to listen. Audrey made a list of everything she would like to see brought to this site, our organization is providing the land, HTFC Architects donated drawings, and our new neighbours the U of W Community Renewal Corporation and Bockstael Construction are donating over $15K worth of labour. We have fund raised half of the proposed budget but we need your help to make this free public space as meaningful and powerful as Audrey envisioned. This garden will be a permanent, visible, celebrated feature of our community, at the corner of Broadway and Colony on Treaty One land!

Every dollar counts! Click here to donate!

Grants are still available! Apply as soon as possible!

There will be rally happening tonight (Friday, June 5) at the Manitoba Legislature in support of Black Lives Matter. West Broadway Community Organization stands in solidarity with those calling for an end to police brutality due to systemic racism against black and Indigenous people. We believe that change is not only possible but urgently necessary, and we hope that events like tonight will bring Winnipeggers together toward a more equitable shared future.

Are you having challenges with mental health or with dealing with all the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic? If so, you are not alone! This has been a difficult time for many of us. For example, a recent survey suggested that 80% of people in Italy need mental health support to cope with the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

There are a number of free and low-cost resources that are available to people in Winnipeg during the COVID-19 pandemic. See below for a list of free and low-cost counselling and mental health supports.

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The West Broadway Community Organization (WBCO) Board of Directors invites you to attend WBCO’s 2020 Annual General Meeting –  Thursday, June 11 at 6pm

Due to COVID19 social distancing guidelines, we will be hosting this meeting by video conference. If you live, work, or volunteer in  West Broadway and would like to attend the meeting, please email Executive Director, Greg MacPherson at director@westbroadway.mb.ca 

Instructions will be sent to you explaining how to participate. View the Board’s full invitation letter here – Invitation to AGM 2020

We invite you to participate in the West Broadway Spring Clean-Up. While we cannot hold an event as in previous years, you can still show your community pride by pitching in to clean the neighbourhood on your own time (6 feet apart from your friends). Come to the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre (185 Young Street) garage between Tuesday, May 12th to Saturday, May 16th from 10am to 12pm to pick up supplies and information on how to clean safely. You can use these supplies to clean up the neighbourhood throughout the week. The first 200 people that come by can sign-up to receive a free specially designed West Broadway t-shirt. Post a photo of yourself (and family/friends) cleaning the neighbourhood and use the hashtag #westbroadwaybeautiful.Thanks for your help to make West Broadway an awesome place to live, work, and visit!