It’s back!!! The 8th Annual Lobsterfest community fundraiser is happening on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 6:00 pm at the Mary Winspear Centre ...
We are thrilled to announce that after a 2+ year “hiatus” the Rotary Club of Brentwood Bay Foundation and the Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation are bringing back our beloved community fundraising event … Lobsterfest!
As always, the event includes a lobster dinner with all the fixins’, live music (Shaky Ground), cash bar, silent auction and bucket draws. We also intend to add a 50/50 draw just to make things extra exciting and are currently working on our application for a gaming licence.
Due to the recently relaxed restrictions, we made the decision to reduce the size of our event this year to give everyone a little more space. As a result, only 200 tickets are available for purchase – so if you would like to attend, we recommend that you act quickly as we expect to sell out even faster than in the past due to the reduced number of tickets for sale.
This year we decided to offer tickets through Eventbrite rather than selling paper tickets directly in person. The tickets are $125 plus Eventbrite fees. Due to increased costs over the past 2+ years we had to increase the price of tickets. However, as in the past, a partial tax receipt (for a portion of the $125 ticket price) will be provided after the event.
You can purchase tickets by clicking on the following link:
The Eventbrite link is the only way to purchase tickets to Lobsterfest 2022.
Please note that the Eventbrite platform automatically assigns tables/seats. If you want to sit with friends or family, we suggest that one person purchases all the tickets at the same time. When completing the purchase, the party doing the purchase will be able to enter everyone’s information on each ticket so that the partial tax receipts are sent out to the appropriate people when the time comes.
The other option is for the first person to purchase their tickets and take note of the table that they are assigned. When the friends/family go in to purchase their tickets they will need to click on the “Buy on Map” option on the right of the page and see if they can select seats at the same table as their friends/family were assigned. Of course, there is no guarantee that seats will be available at the same table, which is why we are recommending that one person purchases all the tickets together in one transaction.
There are only 8 seats per table - no exceptions. There will be no seating re-assignments after tables/tickets are assigned by Eventbrite.
To select a specific table/seat you need to click on the “Buy on Map” option on the right of the page. The available seats (tables) will be green. You need to click on the green seat(s) you want to purchase, not the table in the middle of the seats (which is grey, not green).
PLEASE REMEMBER that if you want to sit with friends/family you will need to either purchase all of the tickets at one table at the same time in one transaction (which will guarantee that you will be able to sit together) or the first purchaser needs to tell the friends/family which table they were assigned when the purchased their tickets and then their friends/family will need to select green seats at that same table when they go in to purchase their own tickets (they do this by choosing the “buy on map” option) – assuming that there are still green seats available for purchase at that table. Again, there are 8 people per table and there will no seating/table reassignments after they have been assigned by Eventbrite.
The Rotary Club of Brentwood Bay Foundation and the Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation both focus on supporting of the members of the Saanich Peninsula community. Through its grants program, the Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation supports activities in the areas of health and social services, arts and culture, education, conservation and in recreation which benefit the residents of the Saanich Peninsula. The Rotary Club of Brentwood Bay Foundation raises funds to help to relieve poverty in the region of Victoria, British Columbia (and in particular, the Saanich Peninsula) by providing baskets and hampers containing food and gifts to families in need; advancing education by providing scholarships, bursaries, and awards to students in the region of Victoria, BC, and by providing schools in the area with books, equipment and other educational aids.
Thank you for your support and we hope to see you there!
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Following a very inspiring talk, the Rotary Club of Brentwood Bay presented a cheque for $1000 to support Dr. Ambrose Marsh and his team in their Bombo Palliative Care project. They were also selling some awesome African print placemats, but Elaine snatched them all up. If you get a chance, buy some before Elaine finds them! 
Our club was thrilled to present a cheque for $15,000 to Mike Nicols in support of his Seven Ravens Permaculture project in Africa. 
We were lucky to have a wealth of volunteers help out at our booth at the Saanich Fall Fair again this year. This is one of the clubs main sources of funds and would not be nearly the success that it is without the support of our friends and family.
George Lawson was awarded Honourary Membership, one of the highest honours bestowed in Rotary, on August 5th.
Our world traveler, Elaine, exchanging banners with a Rotarian from Adelaide.
Thank you to the members of the Central Saanich Fire Department for allowing us to hold a meeting in their amazing new facility. 
The club members met at Ardmore Golf Course for 9 holes, a great catered supper, to show our support and appreciation of Gary as he enters his second term as Club President, as well as celebrate another successful Fall Fair.
Our 2013 Lobsterfest fundraiser was so well received we've decided to join forces with the Saanich Peninsual Foundation and do it all over again!
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