The 2022 Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign has raised a record $92,608.26 for Community Care Peterborough.
The fundraising total was revealed on Tuesday morning (November 15) at the Peterborough office of Community Care, a registered charity empowering seniors and adults with physical challenges in the city and county of Peterborough to live at home by providing services including transportation, Meals On Wheels, and more.
The funds will support Community Care’s “Give A Meal” and “Give A Drive” programs, which subsidizes the cost of meals and transportation for clients in financial need.
“We are awe-struck with this year’s result,” says Community Care’s executive director Danielle Belair in a media release. “We cannot say thank you enough to our communities, the local Tim Hortons teams, and our volunteers who together made this happen for us.”
During this year’s campaign, which ran from from September 19 to 25, 100 per cent of the proceeds of sales of Smile Cookies at participating local Tim Hortons restaurant in Peterborough, Lakefield, Bridgenorth, and Curve Lake were donated to Community Care .
The 2022 Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign raised a record-breaking $15 million across Canada, with the $92,608.26 raised locally also a new record.
“(It was) our best year ever and 100 per cent of the sales of cookies were donated to Community Care,” says Mary Blair, co-owner of the Tim Hortons on Hunter Street East in Peterborough. “People also made donations in lieu of purchases and this is included in this $92,608.26 total too.”
VIDEO: Community Care’s 2022 Smile Cookie Campaign
