Poppy Fund
Direction provinciale du Québec
Thank you for your donation to the Poppy Fund.
Fund
Your financial support goes directly to Canadian veterans and their families, ensuring that Canada never forgets.
Thanks to your donations to the Quebec Provincial Command’s Poppy Fund, the Branch is able to provide support and financial assistance to veterans, including members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP, and their families in need.
The Poppy Campaign is implemented and managed by Legion volunteers across the country and abroad in over 1,400 branches.
Poppy funds, at any level of the Legion, are held in trust and their use is strictly regulated and subject to a well-defined approval process.
Branch Executive Committee members are responsible for expenditures from their Poppy Fund, and are called upon to inform the public through local media of the results of their campaign, including contributions received and the allocation of funds.
You can contact your local Legion branch to enquire about the results of their Poppy Campaign.
Consult the Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Manual to learn more about the Poppy Fund.
Use of Poppy Funds
- Subsidies for food, heating costs, clothing, prescription drugs, medical equipment or appliances, essential home repairs, shelter or emergency assistance
- Housing and healthcare facilities
- Funding of transition programs for veterans that are directly linked to their training, education and support needs.
- Personal items that will bring comfort to hospitalized veterans or their widows/widowers in need
- Tours, transportation costs and day trips for veterans
- Accessibility changes to help disabled veterans
- Scholarships for children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of veterans
- Support for cadet units
- Day centers for veterans and services in communities where veterans can benefit from them.
- Community medical equipment, training and research that will benefit veterans’ care in the community
- Supporting the work of branch and command service officers across the country in assisting and representing veterans
- Donations for disaster relief, as declared by the federal government or one of the provincial governments, affecting veterans in affected communities
- Promotion and administration of Remembrance activities so that Canadians never forget the sacrifices of Canadian veterans
