Employee Giving
Victoria is the current RBC Employee Giving Champion in our area, organizing several community-giving activities throughout the year, encouraging colleagues to participate and to donate to worthy causes across our region. Since taking on this important role in the Fall of 2023, Victoria has organized clothing drives for both Dress for Success Kingston and Well Suited Kingston, a toy drive for Toy Mountain, and volunteer groups at Partners in Mission Food Bank to put together food baskets, Martha’s Table to serve a Christmas lunch to those utilizing their services, and at Kingston Humane Society to clean various staff areas within the facility. Rudy, Shawn, Stephanie and Valerie are always there to support Victoria in her efforts, whether it be with their time or donations.
To find out more about these incredible initiatives in our community, follow the links below.
Dress for Success Kingston
Well Suited Kingston
Toy Mountain
Partners in Mission Food Bank
Martha's Table
Kingston Humane Society
Fighting Food Insecurity
In January 2024, Valerie and Victoria, along with Victoria's husband PJ and son Reed, had the opportunity to join close to 100 other volunteers to package 14,500 nutritious “rice meal packs”. The life-sustaining meals were distributed to various schools in the region as well as local charities, like the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Kingston, and the Partners in Mission Food Bank. The collaborative effort was made possible by Kids Against Hunger, the Food Sharing Project, Rotary Kingston, and Lionhearts Kingston.
Global News story - Fighting food insecurity
Blood Donors
Victoria, Valerie and Stephanie are all avid blood donors. Victoria is on the RBC Gives Blood for Life employee committee as area champion and organizes team blood donation clinics for colleagues, family and friends to donate together throughout each year, saving lives, bringing awareness, and recruiting new donors.
Canadian Blood Services
MS Walk
Annually, Stephanie joins the team Little Creek, Big Steps to walk in support of Multiple Sclerosis. The walk is focused on raising funds to make a difference for everyone living with MS, helping them make life a little easier and bringing us that much closer to a cure. Alongside family and friends, she completes the 5k walk in Napanee at the home of her very good friend, who’s dad and brother both live with MS. An estimated 90,000 Canadians live with MS and, on average, 12 Canadians are diagnosed with MS every day. For more information and to join the movement you can visit MS Walk.
Partners in Mission Food Bank - Rudy Spurr, Board Chair
Rudy volunteered to become a member of the board in 2018 and chaired the nominating committee shortly after joining. In 2022, he was then asked to chair the board and has remained in that position since. The PIMFB Heroes of Hunger are a dedicated group of volunteers who donate their time helping us tackle food insecurity. These volunteers build food hampers, help in the office, distribute food at our pick up windows and help govern our organization.
Partners in Mission Food Bank
Santa Shuffle in support of The Salvation Army
Stephanie runs the Santa Shuffle every December in Kingston and, with it, raises funds for The Salvation Army. The last two years she made it a family affair, with Mike, Briar and Mikey joining in on the fun!
The Santa Shuffle is a 5km Fun Run and 1km Elf Walk for all ages and skill levels. Participants fundraise throughout the season to make a difference in their community. On event day, participants are encouraged to wear their funkiest festive running attire for a day of laughter and fun.
Santa Shuffle
Hockey Team Sponsorships
Spurr & Clarke Wealth Partners sponsor the rep hockey teams of Rudy’s sons, Grayson and Beckett, each year. During the 2023-2024 season, the KAMHA Canadians U15A (Grayson’s team) and U12AA (Beckett’s team) teams both did sock drives in support of St. Vincent de Paul Society of Kingston.
Shawn Clarke, the Basketball Coach
Shawn’s daughter, Grace, is following in her dad’s footsteps with her passion for basketball. When Grace’s Kingston Impact U10 Competitive Girls team, consisting of 8-10 years olds, needed someone to step up to coach, Shawn was there to answer the call. The 2023-2024 took the team to tournaments in Ottawa, Smiths Falls, Brockville and Belleville. Fun Fact: This was the first season Kingston has had U10 competitive basketball teams.
Shawn went on to co-coach the U12 Girls team in the Kingston Impact Spring League, also acting as the convener, and pulling triple duty by coaching in a new player development program called “Art of the Game”, which is for girls in grades 4-8. Grace also participated in this program as a Grade 3.
The Secret 3K
Stephanie and Victoria have been a part of this run annually since it was first introduced in Kingston in 2020. Stephanie's team, The Marysville Movers, has been the largest team in the world 4 years running. The Secret 3k is held during the week of International Women’s Day, this race celebrates our right to be free to run by coming together in solidarity and supporting the right all humans should have to walk or run, free of fear in their community. This not-for-profit race supports groups that are advancing gender equality, access to sport, and education for women and girls in Afghanistan.
The Secret 3k
