Calling all current and past volunteers, client-members, donors, board members and staff! We invite you to feed our work by answering the survey below. The purpose of this survey is to assess Santropol Roulant’s impact in the area of community engagement. By answering these questions, you are helping us determine if the Roulant’s activities are engaging people to the degree …
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The Return of Trivia Night!
Is your trivial knowledge not proving to be the ideal conversation-starter you had hoped it to be? Come share your frivolous fun facts and put them to good use! What: The Roulant is hosting a Trivia Night Fun(d)raiser! When: Wednesday March 31st from 7:30 to 9:30pm (doors open at 7pm) Where: Santropol Roulant (111 Roy east, corner Coloniale) Cost: $10/person, teams …
Job Offer: *Deadline Extended* Meals-on-Wheels Coordination Internship
A chance to work with our client members and volunteers, learn about the daily operations of our Meals-on-Wheels program, and participate in our approach to collaborative leadership – the MOW internship is an enriching way to spend 6 months at the Roulant! Read the document below for the full job posting. Please note that to apply for this position you must …
2015 AGM: Calling All Candidates!
Are you a member of the Roulant? Would you like to further your involvement in the Roulant as an administrator and join the Board of Directors? Submit your application for the election at our next Annual General Meeting (AGM) (Thursday March 26th, 2015, starting at 5:30pm)! During the AGM, members of the Roulant – that is, anyone who has been a …
Project GO: "6 à 8" at the Roulant!
Via McGill’s student group Project GO, student volunteers participate in meal deliveries (and sometimes kitchen shifts) for our Meals-on-Wheels Program on a weekly or bi-monthly basis. The initiative is primarily linked with McGill University, but is open to students from other universities as well! What: We’ll be hosting a “6 à 8” to recruit new members, to introduce new volunteers to the student group, …
Deep Democracy Community Training
The workshop is at capacity. Thanks everyone for your interest! Please write to Stephanie if you would like to be put on the waiting list. Want to learn about creating engaging democratic processes for fair group debate and decision? Join us for a Deep Democracy workshop! Aftab Erfan, a trainer from Vancouver, will be at the Roulant to give an introductory 2-hour …
Santropol Roulant’s Beekeeping Collective is seeking new members!
Calling all beekeeping enthusiasts! Santropol Roulant’s Beekeeping Collective is seeking new members! We are looking for volunteers with a broad range of experience in order to create a good mix of people to keep our hives healthy and happy. The collective’s mission is to help spread sustainable, democratic, and local beekeeping practices.We are a group of beekeepers who come together to foster and uphold …
Women & Trans Night at SantroVélo
Did you know that SantroVélo, our community bike shop, is opened the 1st Saturday of each month to welcome people who identify as female or transgender? This is an opportunity for women and transgender folks to feel empowered in a space traditionally defined as masculine! If you self-identify as such, you are invited to come work on your bike, lend a hand or …
Meals-on-Wheels Calendar: A Taste of our Program
Over the holiday season, we sent a new meal calendar to our meals-on-wheels clients, like we do every year. The meal calendar is a critical tool that enables our client-members to maintain their autonomy over their food decisions. It allows each client to be more informed about what they eat, and to choose the days that they want to receive a meal …
Check-Up: A Look Under the Hood of a Meals-on-Wheels
We are delighted to share with you the results of a three-year project in food safety and nutrition to improve our Meals-on-Wheels service and to ensure that our work has a growing impact on the well-being of elderly Montrealers. As part of this project, we developed a website called Check-up. Here, health professionals (and everyone else) can freely access tools, …
Volunteering in the New Year
As the new year begins, our volunteer program is in full swing. Throughout January, we are recruiting volunteers to help us with our meals-on-wheels service, in the kitchen, administrative tasks and especially on deliveries. If you have excellent hand writing, the fundraising team would love your help during office hours (9am-5pm). Email Meghan for more info. As a reminder, the …
Job Offer: Farm Co-Manager
After 9 fruit-and-vegetable-ful years at the Roulant, Tim Murphy is moving on to new adventures and the Roulant is looking for a new Farm Co-Manager to work with Samuel to develop our peri-urban farm in Senneville, Quebec. The application deadline is Wednesday, January 14th at 9am. Please note that the position for Apprentice in Small Scale Farm Management is also currently open. …