Why Volunteer

  Give back to your community

    Share your knowledge and experience

    Develop and practice new skills

   Be appreciated and needed

     Meet new people from all walks of life

    Contribute to a cause that you care about

     Stay active

    Experience personal fulfillment and satisfaction

       (From Eagle Ridge Hospital Auxiliary brochure)

You can make a difference!

So come join us!

*    We are Antonymous Organization within Royal Inland Hospital.

*    Membership decides where the funds are allocated and spent.

*    Members convene Fundraising areas, Caring Programs, and serve on committees.

*    Elections held at AGM, February.

*   Regular monthly meetings held 1^st Monday of the month except July & August.

*    All members encouraged to partake.

*   Member of the British Columbia Association of Health-Care Auxiliaries (BCAHA).

*    84 Auxiliaries are members.

*   Member of the Okanagan Mainline Area (OMA), Auxiliaries within the Interior Health Region.

*    Both hold annual conferences, hosted by a member Auxiliary.

*    Some members sent to learn and network with other Auxiliaries.

History

*    Afternoon Auxiliary is over 110 yrs.

*    November 11, 1899, 34 ladies of

     "good character" met and formed the Afternoon Auxiliary.

*    2003 Purchased Thrift Seller building.

*   2010 Auxiliary transferred the service programs to the new RIH Volunteer Services Coordinator

Accomplishments

*     Since 1990, approximately 2 million has been raised to purchase special equipment such as, Pulmonary Function System, Instrument Tables, Breast Feeding Pumps, assorted stretchers, ECG Carts, Birthing Beds and Cancer and ICU Renovations.