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    ​HAMILTON COOKS wins top National Marketing Award for Tandia

    June 18, 2020 (Burlington ON) 

    Each year, the Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA) provides the opportunity for credit unions across Canada to showcase their finest marketing initiatives from the previous year. Earlier today, the CCUA held their annual National Awards presentation virtually and Tandia was recognized and is the proud recipient of Canada’s top Marketing Award for credit unions for our HAMILTON COOKS fundraising initiative.

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    To recap this national award-winning project, last November Tandia launched a fresh and novel way to financially contribute more funds to Food4Kids Hamilton while celebrating local businesses and restaurants. With help from community business partners and the participation of 15 featured restaurants, Tandia published a cookbook that includes a bio and exclusive recipe from each restaurant. The books sold for $20 each, with 100% of all proceeds going to Food4Kids. By early January, 1,500 copies had been sold, resulting in a $30,000 donation to Food4Kids. The impact of this donation reduced the wait list to zero and meant an additional 75 children in need would receive a generous shopping bag of healthy food to take home every weekend. (In response to COVID-19 and school closures, Food4Kids has been safely distributing grocery gift cards instead.)

    Rachel Osborne, Associate Vice President, Marketing and Business Development was honoured to make a virtual presentation about HAMILTON COOKS to credit union leaders and marketing peers across the county and accept the award. Her presentation showcased the project itself, the whole team behind HAMILTON COOKS and encapsulated what motivated and drove the project. At Tandia, core to our corporate social responsibility mandate is the belief that by assisting with fundamental needs such as nutrition and financial education, children in need in our community will be able to focus on developing life skills that will give them the chance to have a better future. HAMILTON COOKS was Tandia’s CSR mandate put into action.

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    Richard Davies, President and Chief Executive Officer had this to say, “We are extremely proud of our Marketing and Business Development team here at Tandia and the many marketing awards they have earned over the years. This one is particularly special, as the initiative shared the spotlight with our Hamilton community, restaurants and an invaluable local charity that helps children in need. Being recognized in this way is also shining an admirable spotlight on Tandia Financial Credit Union across our great country.”

    For more information, please contact:  

    Rachel Osborne,

    AVP Marketing & Business Development
    1.800.598.2891 ext. 1172
    Rachel.Osborne@tandia.com

    Tandia Financial Credit Union is a cooperative financial institution with a vision to be the financial services provider of choice in its communities and a continued commitment to serve education and government employees in Ontario. Tandia partners alongside its members each and every day to help them build a healthy and prosperous future. With a branch network that extends from Brant County through Greater Hamilton, Halton and the GTA, Tandia serves over 29,000 members and administers $1.2 billion in assets.