The S’Aints 2020 Sleighing Hunger concert raised $80,000 from ticket sales, CD sales, music downloads, and various local sponsors’ contributions.
The funds were presented to the Windsor Essex Food Bank Association ($50,500), Chatham’s Outreach for Hunger ($25,000) and the two St. Clair College student food banks Student Representative Council-Windsor ($3,000) Thames Students Incorporated-Chatham ($1,500).
“The fabled and long-standing generosity of our community may not surprise me much any longer, but its’ phenomenal degree certainly did astound me this year,” said St. Clair College President Patti France. “To set a fundraising record amid a pandemic with a concert that, by necessity, had to be staged remotely is the most heart-warming ending imaginable for this COVID-era Christmas story.”
March 4, 2021
It was a record setting fundraiser for local food banks thanks to musical group The S’Aints.
In conjunction with St. Clair College, the band staged its 2020 Sleighing Hunger concert on December 18th. The virtual concert used ticket and CD sales, music downloads, and and local sponsorship deals to raise $80,000.
The proceeds have been spread around Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent with $50,500 going to the Windsor-Essex Food Bank Association and $25,000 for Chatham’s Outreach for Hunger.
The remainder is being donated to student food banks at the two college campuses in Windsor and Chatham.
“But let’s remember that this is a year-long effort, especially in the midst of the ongoing employment difficulties faced by many of our neighbours due to the pandemic,” College President Patti France says. “Food banks and social assistance agencies such as those helped by the concert need support throughout the year, so I encourage all of the concert’s audience m