made a four-year, $120,000 contri-
bution to School Lunch Association,
helping increase assess to complete,
healthy meals for over 5,400 students
a day across the North-East Avalon.
As well, it made a similar four-year
commitment to The Gathering Place,
assisting with providing hot meals to
needy persons.
It’s a vital part of the Trades NL’s
wider strategic plan to increase com-
munity engagement and give back
to the communities in which it, and
its member unions, work. On behalf
of its 16 union members, Trades NL
has given back $20 million in the last
five years, with a focus on health care
and children’s charities. “It is impor-
tant to give back to the community
every chance we get, whether that
be volunteering on boards, or putting
money back into the community,”
says Darin King, Executive Leader for
FEBRUARY 2018
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