Our New Build

Honouring Our Shared Home

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Housewarming Celebration

Upon the completion of the buildings, Power To Be invited a group of our participants and community group partners to join us on site and celebrate our new space for a housewarming event. This occasion brought participants, volunteers, and staff together in a place that has come to mean so much for our organization.

Ecostar Award Winner

Power To Be is honoured to be a 2022 Ecostar Award Winner for the category of Innovation. Since 2015, the Ecostar Awards have recognized outstanding environmental achievements and leadership on Vancouver Island. We are proud that our new build was constructed with accessibility and sustainability at the forefront of its design.

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Putting Down Roots

With this new site, we can give back by creating a space where our community can come together to learn, innovate and inspire others to explore the outdoors.

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Explore the Build

Be sure to check out the details of our new build. This exciting space includes innovative, inspiring, and inclusive designs.

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Gratitude for Place

PROVIDING A GATEWAY TO NATURE

Power To Be‘s Prospect Lake site has become a source of healing, infinite discovery, and unconditional belonging; we had found a sense of place, and with that, a home. We are proud of the series of innovative, sustainable, inclusive buildings we have created that allow us to enhance our programs and elevate our impact.

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Project Values

This innovative project is allowing us to tell our story and share our values through a physical space. The four core values of the project are:

INCLUSION

Everyone has access and is welcome

ENVIRONMENT

Celebrating nature while being sensitive of our surroundings

FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Building the best for today and the future

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Promoting the health of our community and the earth

This project has been made possible by the Annual Foundation in recognition of Ted and Loretta Rogers and the following supporters

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BUILDING DETAILS

Every person deserves to feel a sense of belonging at our Prospect Lake site, no matter their abilities, mobility, gender identity, age, race or socio-economic background. This is reflected in our site design, with elements that respect gender inclusivity, stimuli sensitivities and limited mobilities, to name a few.

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“Power To Be matters because it gives people the chance to be out in nature and explore their local surroundings, it also gives people a community to be part of and in times like these, that might be the most important thing.”

-Participant