LHBA In The
Community
Building great communities through giving back and being active and engaged in our local area and beyond.
building great communities
through giving
LHBA members are committed to building great homes but also to building great communities through giving back and being active and engaged in our local area and beyond. You may have seen our members out and about in your community helping with the Business Cares Food Drive Grocery Store Weekend, collecting socks for the #519Pursuit, and raising money for the Health and Homelessness Fund for Change and Threads of Life through events like LHBA’s Constructors Cup Charitable Soccer Tournament or the Parade of Renovations and more.
Business
Cares
LHBA and our members have proudly been a part of the Business Cares Food Drive for over 25 years, supporting the London and Area Food Bank and over 70 connected programs including Mission Services, 519 Pursuit, Homeless Lunch Program, The Unity Project, Anova, Soup Kitchen, and school breakfast programs.
LHBA captained 9 stores across the city during the 2024 Grocery Store Weekend (Nov 30/Dec 1), rallied volunteers for the weekend, called their friends, families, clients and business connections for donations and donated themselves, together raising $345,731+ in food and monetary donations during the campaign! Topping our 2023 total of $320,952!
Thank you to our 2024 store captains: CLAY dcc, RBC Royal Bank, Nieman Market Design, The Better Bin Company (TBBC), TRY Recycling, The Tricar Group, Sloan Stone Design, Strik Baldinelli Moniz, Verbeek Kitchens, CCR Build + Remodel, Wastell Homes and Duncan Harwood Custom Homes along with our MANY LHBA volunteers over the weekend.
Keep an eye out for 2025 campaign updates and reach out to get involved.
#519
Pursuit
1130 pairs of socks donated to the 2024 @519pursuit Official Sock Drop event! Thank you LHBA Members for collecting and donating towards this incredible cause! Each pair of socks represents a ripple effect of impact. From conversations that lead to donations of new socks to the new socks getting onto the feet of someone in need.
LHBA’s
Constructors Cup
Each year, LHBA in partnership with The Tricar Group, present our Annual Constructors Cup, Corporate Recreational Soccer Tournament with proceeds being donated to charity including most recently the Health & Homelessness Fund for Change and Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU). Visit our events page to find out more about our next tournament.
Parade
of Renovations
Each year LHBA RenoMark Renovators and the home owners of recent renovation projects offer an exclusive look at incredible projects in London, opening their homes for our parade. Proceeds from the parade are donated to charity, most recently to Threads of Life, a Canadian registered charity dedicated to supporting families after a workplace fatality, life-altering injury or occupational disease. Our 2024 Parade featured 10 home and outdoor living renovations, visit our Parade page to find out more about our next event.
Green Home
Build Projects
LHBA’s unique Green Home Build projects combine the generosity of LHBA members, local businesses, innovative green products, and community spirit, together building a home to raise funds for charity.
The first build of its kind, supported the creation of LHBA’s Cancer Survivor Garden located on Riverside Drive/Wonderland Road in London. The second, a net zero ready home built over 2023 and 2024 shared proceeds with Kids Kicking Cancer Canada’s (KKCC) Heroes Circle and ongoing LHBA programs and initiatives.
Partnering with Local Educators
& Connecting with Students
LHBA is committed to supporting careers in the trades and the future of the home building industry. Our members partner with local educators and regularly connect with high school and post secondary students to promote the opportunities and benefits of a career in the trades.
Many of those involved in our career’s initiatives have been inspired by the excitement the students show while being supported by the industry from the very beginning of their journey and in addition many have made valuable connections with future employees!
Find out more about our programs:
Community Service
Historical Listing
It means a lot to LHBA members!
In a typical year, the members of LHBA generously volunteer in excess of 5,000 hours for Association activities and donate in excess of $100,000 annually to the Community.
Since 2010
- Annual Renovation Design Contest with Fanshawe College
- Annual Amazing Building Challenge with London & area elementary & secondary schools
- Annual Community Build by Renovators’ Council
- Fundraising at Golf Tournaments donated to Children's Hospital, Make A Wish, Ronald McDonald House, Cancer Survivors Gardens, London Abused Women’s Centre, Hockey Helps the Homeless
- Food Drive at Golf Tournament for the London Food Bank
- Participation in the Annual Business Cares Food Drive
- $2000 in scholarships awarded annually to local students entering the industry.
- Members speak multiple times a year at various Secondary Schools to provide information on the vast number of careers in the residential construction industry
- Annual Protecting Our Future program with donation of hard hats to Fanshawe College Students in the Construction Carpentry Techniques program.
- In partnership with the London Fire Services Department, the Renovators' Council provides smoke alarms to houses that do not have any in our Annual Smoke Alarm Blitzes.
- LHBA's legacy project the Cancer Survivors Garden is in McKillop Park, provides a place of strength and hope for all of those touched by cancer.
- The LHBA Green Home was built with the generous donations of materials, products, and labour from members of the London Home Builders' Association. The proceeds from the sale of this home helped to fund the Cancer Survivors Garden.
- Partnership with Cancer Society for Fields of Gold Daffodil planting in the Cancer Survivors Garden.
- Donation to ALS Society raised by members in a Dinner Meeting Competition
- Donated bags for the Canadian Cancer Society to use as volunteer appreciation gifts
- Supported “Kendra’s Bake Sale” at the Cancer Survivors Gardens to raise money for Childcan
- A clothing drive brought in truckloads of professional clothing donated by our members to ClothingWorks
- Annual Parade of Renovations raises funds for various community organizations through donation of Parade entrance fees - Unity Project, Sanctuary London, London Food Bank, etc.
- Partnership with ReForest London’s Million Tree Challenge. Planted fourteen trees, and gave away over 150 seedlings for planting.
- Partnered with Southdale and Limberlost Chaplaincies in Mug-nificent – an event that provided 70 children in the community with the opportunity to give gifts to their mothers for Mother’s Day!
- Donations to Bereaved Families, Habitat for Humanity, and Camp Kee Mo Kee after office renovation.
- Annually at the Lifestyle Home Show, LHBA provides space to many community organizations to help raise their public awareness - Bereaved Families, Bibles for Missions, Cancer Survivors Garden, Kids Kicking Cancer, London Abused Women’s Centre, London Food Bank, Need Help Now, ReForest London, Text Books for Change are examples over the years.
- Food Drive and media awareness conducted at the Lifestyle Home Show for the London Food Bank.
- Donation to support programming for Kids Kicking Cancer
- Spring Golf Tournament to support Kids Kicking Cancer
Since 2000
- Annual Amazing Building Challenge with London & area elementary & secondary schools
- Annual Community Build by Renovators’ Council - decks, doorway widening, kitchen conversion for Wellspring London. room of shelving for the London Children’s Museum and extensive renovation for May Court Club - exterior repairs and interior refurbish - including electrical panel, plumbing, lighting, cabinets, counter tops, accessible change rooms and complete repainting.
- Annual Birdhouse Raffle by Renovators’ Council with proceeds to MS Society
- Annual Chili Blast luncheon to celebrate Renovation Month in October, with ticket proceeds to MS Society of Canada.
- Southdale Chaplaincy renovation to combine two housing units into one to expand space and function for community programs supporting area residents.
- Donated to London District Catholic School Board safety boots for students on Katrina relief mission.
- Friends of the Games silver sponsorship for Canada Summer Games
- Supported George Bray Hockey Association with proceeds from Renovators’ Council Hockey Tournament.
- Raised $15,000 for the Diabetes Association and $10,000 for London’s New Children’s Hospital as support for Paul Rawlings, Honolulu Marathon.
- Fundraising at Golf Tournaments donated to Children's Hospital, Make A Wish, Ronald McDonald House, Cancer Survivors Gardens, London Abused Women’s Centre
- Food Drive at Golf Tournament for the London Food Bank
- Participation in the Annual Business Cares Food Drive
- Float in the Jaycees Annual Christmas Parade
- Home at Last renovation valued at $80,000 in partnership with the London St Thomas Association of Realtors, CMHC and the London Affordable Housing Foundation, to support a family moving from assisted housing to home ownership
- Victoria Park - Stone wall completing Richmond Street face of park.
- TREE – Team Reforestation Enhances our Environment - 2000 trees planted; Basil Grover Park, Springbank Park, Greenway Park, park bench in Basil Grover Park near future grove.
- Over $3000 in scholarships awarded to local students entering the industry.
- Sites not for Play awareness campaign with London area elementary schools and A Channel promotion aimed at keeping children away from potential injury on construction sites.
- Renovation Rescue for a homeowner whose renovation went horribly wrong, valued at $40,000.
- Annual Protecting Our Future program with donation of hard hats to Fanshawe College Students in the Construction Carpentry Techniques program.
During the 90s
- Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, LHBA raised total of $30,000.
- Supported Jesse’s Journey
- Renovation of eight camp cabins at Stevenson Camp, valued at $100,000.
- Built and donated children’s playhouses to Merrymount Children’s Centre, Children’s Aid Society and Second Stage Housing
- Painted apartment building hallways for Battered Women’s Shelter, Second Stage Housing
- Annual Renovation Design Contest with Fanshawe College
- Annual Model Building program with London & area elementary & secondary schools
- Constructed and donated new home, valued at $260,000 as first prize in Hopes & Dreams Lottery.
- Assisted Bethanys Hope Foundation in obtaining over $500,000. In secondary prizes for Hopes & Dreams Lottery
- Annual Community Builds by Renovators’ Council - decks, conversion of bedroom into full service handicapped washroom, etc.
- Renovation and food-raising for London Food Bank - refinished concrete floor in office and constructed 40’ of shelving for storage of large boxed foods.
- Annual Children’s Playhouse Raffle by Renovators’ Council - proceeds to MS Society
- Annual Chili Blast luncheon to celebrate Renovation Month in October -proceeds to Habitat for Humanity & MS Society of Canada.
During the 80s
- United Way - Raised $25,000 - $30,000 annually
- Completed extensive renovation for London & Middlesex Lung Association with materials and labour donated by LHBA members, valued at $95,000.
- Constructed and sold new home valued at $150,000 with proceeds to Sunshine Foundation and members participated in the Dream Lift that funds were used for.
- Won Community Service Award for all of Canada from Canadian Home Builders’ Association in 1988 and 1989 in recognition of the outstanding contributions made by members of the London Home Builders' Associations to better the way of life of people in our community.
- Our first Community Service project: Constructed and sold a new home valued at $225,000 with proceeds donated to Community Living London.
