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Blind Beginnings Society

Legal name on the register: BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY

CA-E-6JAJ-X4SZFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-6JAJ-X4SZ
Address
2411 PENDER ST E, VANCOUVER, BC, V5K 2B2
Earliest record
April 23, 2019
Identifiers held
Charity registration
813290616RR0001
Business number
813290616
Vancouver licence
4722036
Vancouver licence
4860834
Vancouver licence no.
25-198586
Vancouver licence no.
26-138250
Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity813290616RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (2)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4722036September 10, 2025Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860834November 29, 2025Issued

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Board and officers on record (13)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Jugaad SinghYouth RepresentativeJune 15, 2024current
Rob SleathMember at LargeJune 15, 2024current
Jordan PodealukSecretaryJune 17, 2023current
Shawna LawsonPresidentJune 17, 2023current
Peter MoroneyMember at LargeJune 17, 2023current
Leesa SchurmanMember at LargeJune 17, 2023current
Tamara KroppTreasurerJune 25, 2022current
Fernando MerinoMember at LargeJune 25, 2022current
Amit GatenyoMember at LargeJune 19, 2021current
Kathie JohnsonVice PresidentSeptember 7, 2019current
Acacia CousinsYouth RepresentitiveJune 17, 2023ended June 15, 2024
Louise McDonaldMember at LargeJune 25, 2022ended June 15, 2024
Richard MarionPast PresidentSeptember 7, 2019ended June 15, 2024

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$203,781

across 2 agreements, 2019–2025

2019$4K
2025$200K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Employment and Social Development Canada2$203,781
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Timeline
  1. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  2. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  3. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$200,000
  4. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,781
Why this is one record

4 publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Same name and postal code V5K 2B2
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 2411 e pender, vancouver, BC
    asserted by City of Vancouver

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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