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The focus of the campaign is bringing awareness to the brain injuries resulting from intimate partner violence, but the full focus of the week has even more impact. The statistics tell us one in three women in Canada have encountered IPV in their lifetime. For some the bruises go away, but the resulting brain injuries last a lifetime. We all need to stop the violence. As a volunteer organization, the Canadian Royal Purple’s cause is brain injury awareness and prevention. With this understanding, members of the Canadian Royal Purple have combined events of advocacy, caring for the survivors, fund raising and education into all the events featured during the week called Purple Thursday x 7.
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Join the official launch of "Heal the Her-t" by Auroara Leigh & Ezra Croucher (Oct 9) for Purple Thursday x7. 🎟️ Get Tickets or Donate: Reserve your spot or make a direct donation to Canadian Royal Purple Society. |
5 Years of Action: Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Canadian Royal Purple’s Purple Thursday Campaign
The Purple Care Bag Campaign Over 5,000 carefully packed Care Bags—filled with hygiene essentials and comfort items delivered directly to women's shelters across Canada for individuals fleeing violence with nothing.
Cross-Sectoral Education Hosting webinars and distributing educational toolkits to ensure shelter staff, first responders, and healthcare workers can spot the signs of an IPV-related brain injury. National Fundraising & High Teas Community events held across the country to raise crucial funds for survivor support systems and local emergency shelters. |
What started as a focused day of awareness has grown into a life-changing national movement, shining a bright light on a critical but historically overlooked crisis: the heavy intersection between Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
Over the past five years, Canadian Royal Purple volunteers have proven that grassroots dedication can move mountains, change policies, and directly support survivors when they need it most. The impact of this campaign has grown dramatically. The single-day initiative has successfully expanded into Purple Thursday x7—an entire week of coordinated national action. 
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Purple Thursday - Sales Items! Support a Great Cause!
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VISIT THE NEW WEBSITE www.purplethursdayx7.org |
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Purple Thursday Launch 2023
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Sandi Lougheed - National Committee Chair
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Born in Francis, SK, Sandi was the first member of her family to graduate from the University of Saskatchewan with Bachelor of Arts and Education degrees and headed off into careers as a teacher, news editor and newspaper owner.
She joined Royal Purple in 1970 in Zealandia, SK. Her careers led her to join lodges in Kindersley, Pinehouse and Regina. She is currently the Chair of the Saskatchewan Royal Purple Charity Partnership Committee and a member of her lodge in Beechy, Saskatchewan. |
In the Royal Purple of Canada, her highlight events included coordinating the Al Howie Tomorrow Run across Canada in 1990 and serving as National President in 1993. Her theme then was "Membership begins with ME."
Since the formation of the Canadian Royal Purple, Sandi has served on the R and R Committe, overseeing the institution of seven new lodges, even amid the challenges of Covid.
ln 2021 Sandi introduced the National Executive to a forward-planning process called 'Vivid Visioning". As a resul,t the National Board began to take the leadership role in establishing the Canadian Royal Purple as a major player in Canada's volunteer world, adopting brain injury awareness and prevention as its cause, filling Canadian communities with skilled dedicated volunteers as its purpose and Purple Thursday as its national event.
2022 saw Sandi serve as the president of the Canadian Royal Purple. Her theme was"It's OUR Dream - OUR Team" as the organization turned its face to exciting projects, new lodges, and expansion across Canada.
Since the formation of the Canadian Royal Purple, Sandi has served on the R and R Committe, overseeing the institution of seven new lodges, even amid the challenges of Covid.
ln 2021 Sandi introduced the National Executive to a forward-planning process called 'Vivid Visioning". As a resul,t the National Board began to take the leadership role in establishing the Canadian Royal Purple as a major player in Canada's volunteer world, adopting brain injury awareness and prevention as its cause, filling Canadian communities with skilled dedicated volunteers as its purpose and Purple Thursday as its national event.
2022 saw Sandi serve as the president of the Canadian Royal Purple. Her theme was"It's OUR Dream - OUR Team" as the organization turned its face to exciting projects, new lodges, and expansion across Canada.
