Tradeworks is selling a selection of Vancouver 2010 street banners to raise funds for ‘The Fab Shop’, a legacy training and employment program for at-risk youth, based on the RONA 2010 Fabrication Shop that ran for more than two years prior to the Games. Each banner is a piece of history and they make great gifts.
These banners were on display throughout the city during the 2010 Games and there are several designs. Many sets are signed by John Furlong and Olympic athletes, which make them extra special collectibles. Signed banners are accompanied by a letter of authenticity.
Banners can be purchased online at the www.vancouver2010.com/store. (Check under ‘memorabilia’ if it is not up on the front page.) There you can get a complete outline of styles, pairings and prices.
We thank the City of Vancouver for donating these banners.
BC Hydro’s boardroom has a new table built at the Tradeworks Fab Shop. BC Hydro is committed to supporting the new social enterprise and training program and the first order placed with the Fab Shop was for this new table. And the octagonal maple veneered table has now been installed.
Tradeworks has received great feedback that the new furniture was well regarded by directors when the BC Hydro board met earlier this month.
The Fab Shop is capable of producing a wide array of products, up to and including custom furnishings of this kind. The table reflects high quality mill work and assembly.
Primarily, the Fab Shop is planning to provide training and employment opportunities to at-risk youth. The 2010 games legacy project is set to launch formally in October. The project is based on the RONA 2010 Fabrication Shop that operated in the run-up to the winter games. The staff team includes highly skilled carpenters who can undertake more complex design and finishing work, as well as supervise the trainees.
The Fab Shop project is being structured as a social enterprise that will provide services in the marketplace to clients such as BC Hydro. The work generated for trainees is the key bridging experience for them, as people who have little or no employment history and need to develop their workplace skills. Recruitment for new participants will start in October 2010.
The Fab Shop is also keen to talk to other prospective clients.
John Furlong, VANOC CEO, personally signing 2010 Winter Games Street Banners
The City of Vancouver donated 800 pairs of Vancouver 2010 street banners to Tradeworks Training Society to help in fundraising for The Fab Shop legacy project, a carpentry training program for at-risk youth, initially launched as a sustainable social initiative created by the 2010 Winter Games. On July 29th, 2010, The Fab Shop held a banner signing event in which John Furlong, VANOC CEO and three Olympian athletes – Kristi Richards, Tom Velisek and Justin Lamoureux, came to sign banners that will be sold online in support of this legacy project.
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Tradeworks had three women attending the Canadian Women’s Foundation ‘National Skills Institute’ last week, June 27-30, in Toronto. Carol Madsen, Kate Stewart and Arleen Dauncey met with dozens of other women from across the country, women supervising similar employment programs for women.
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Ellen Ho, a graduate of the Women’s Workshop and currently an Assistant Carpenter at Tradeworks Custom Products, turned what she thought was impossible into a beginning of a new career. At the Women’s Workshop, a pre-employment program that introduces inner-city women to the world of carpentry and registered trades, there are many women from diverse backgrounds who have done the same.
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