Royals Tickets

Umbrella was stoked to pick up our season tickets for the Victoria Royals for our guys at Foundation House. Robbie, our new finance guy, grabbed the tickets off of our friend Kevin from the Royals. We love supporting local sports and love that our guys get to go out and...

Community Hero

One of the residents, John H from Foundation House nominated Umbrella's own Kelsey as Hometown Hero, and Kelsey won the award! This wonderful hero award included Kelsey attending the BC Lions game, getting the spirit of the game going and being recognized as the Hometow...

New FH Addition

Foundation House had this beautiful covered area over the smoking "pit" but we wanted to extend it to cover the barbecue area so that the guys could barbecue all year round AND it would preserve the life of the two barbecues. One of our amazingly talented residents Adam,...

MLA Rob Fleming Visit

Today Evan and Erik met with MLA Rob Fleming and his advisor Rachel at Foundation House. F-House is in Rob's riding but we have never been able to make a visit work and we were thrilled that he took the time to learn more about Umbrella and our award winning recovery hou...

Harbour Cats

On Wednesday evening, some of the guys from our recovery houses took in ball game. Thanks to tickets from Mayor Alto, our residents watched the Harbour Cats beat the Nanaimo Night Owls while enjoying the sunshine and soaking up the ball park energy. Having fun and doing...

VIC PD Visit

Today, Evan, Sharlene and Erik met with Deputy Chief Constable Jamie McRae and Inspector Jeff Lawson at Foundation House. We invited these two officers to the house to learn more about Umbrella and the work we do, but more importantly, we wanted to connect so that we co...

Resident Bowling

On Wednesday night, all the residents from our three houses met at Foundation House for pizza and then they headed out to Langford Lanes for some fun bowling. Staff Zack, Kelsey and Erik all joined in on the fun and Erik beat everyone at bowling!! These events are reall...

Victoria Foundation Visit

Today, our friends from the Victoria Foundation, Tracy and Sushil, came to Foundation House for a tour and to learn more about the work we are doing in recovery housing. Evan, Erik and Sharlene shared about the house, the history and Erik shared his experience as a resid...

Annual Costco Trip

About once a year Sharlene drags Evan to Costco to do the house shopping. Today Zack was working at the hospital so Evan had to step in and push one of the two carts and follow a carefully crafted grocery list... a big ask. Costco is Evan's least favourite place, and it...

Foundation House is 4

Last night the housing staff and residents celebrated being Foundation House homeowners for 4 years. To be clear, F-H0use is much older than 4, but it has been 4 years since Umbrella purchased the house. Umbrella began operating Foundation House in April 2015, and w...