“They finally sent us the letter yesterday morning, which was just so very exciting for me and a little overwhelming, emotionally. I struggled all day between, you know, break-out laughter and constant tears. It was really just amazing how much weight was lifted off my shoulders and the shoulders of the board.”
Taylor says he has been working on the housing initiative for three years, which would see 20 transitional housing cabins built on local land. Taylor says for the past year and a half they’ve been working on getting charitable status.
“There’s just all kinds of things in the works and moving forward. And this one thing was holding us back from a fair amount, from accessing funding. You know, we kept being told by different organizations (and) the government, ‘Once you have this number, we can do this’ and ‘We can help you out once you have this number’. Even having a fundraiser, we couldn’t have a fundraiser because we couldn’t issue receipts for people who are donating money. And you know, you have to be able to do that.”
Taylor says the charitable status will also allow them to apply for some funding for wages and that he hopes to be able to hire the LBC community director as early in the process as possible, so that they know the organization from the ground up.
“Everything is all happening now and it would be so great to have (hire) the person that’s actually going to be working there nine to five, you know running the place.”
Taylor went on to say that a lot has been happening at LBC. Surveyors have been out surveying potential land this week and the design team is hard at work on the floor plans. A monthly board meeting will also take place next Thursday.
To find out more about little blue cabins you can check out their website here: Little Blue Cabins, a proposal for a Cabin Community. | Little Blue Cabins – Bancroft, Ontario, Canada
