The Helpline Gala is an evening designed to raise funds and awareness for the services

we provide, 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year for women who have

experienced any form of abuse.

This year marks our 30th anniversary as an agency. Since 1985 the Assaulted Women's

Helpline has provided telephone crisis counselling in over 154 languages.

Join us as we bring our 12th annual fundraising gala to Toronto on Friday May 29, 2015

at the trendy Burroughes Building in the heart of Queen West.

Featuring a keynote address by Bev Wybrow, former CEO of the Canadian Women's

Foundation and founder and first chair of the 1985 Inter-agency steering committee whose

work led to the establishment of the Assaulted Women's Helpline.

Time: 6:30-10pm

Guests will enjoy:

- Evening hosted by Melissa Grelo, co-host of CTV's The Social

- Dinner by Chef Martin Aller-Stead and his budding culinary students from Monarch

Park Collegiate

- Complimentary craft beer from Beaus Brewery

- Live musical entertainment by the Samba Squad

- An opportunity to bid on silent auction items & win 50/50 draw

- All guests have a chance to win a stunning $6,000 diamond tennis bracelet door prize