Beneficiary
Each year, the
festival committee reviews applications from many area charitable organizations,
and selects one or more beneficiaries for the event. The selected organizations
then provide volunteers and other support to the committee to conduct
the event. Substantially all of the net proceeds are then given to the
beneficiary organizations. The 2019 beneficiary organizations are:
Kingswood
Youth Center - The mission of the Kingswood Youth Center
is to provide a safe, positive environment in which youth may grow,
learn and develop life skills critical to their success in the adult
world. The center serves over 300 different youth each year, offering
after school programs, one-to-one mentoring, summer programs, free meals,
community service opportunities, recreational trips, Career Exploration
Programs and much more. The funds from the Festival will be used toward
purchasing a new bus for the center.
Kingswood
Children's Summer Theatre - The Kingswood Children’s
Summer Theatre nurtures public appreciation of and participation in
the arts by providing opportunities for public performance and community
education through leadership and outreach. During the past 50 years,
over 3,000 children have participated in the KCST, with 60 students
participating in the 2019 production. Kingswood Children’s Summer
Theatre is dedicated to advancing the art of theater by creating a unified
team of young people working together in a positive and inspiring environment.
The funds from the Festival of Trees will be used to offset the increased
cost of using the Kingswood Arts Center.
Central
NH VNS & Hospice Pediatric Program - the only agency
in Belknap and Carroll Counties that provided home based healthcare
to children (birth to 18). The program provides services such as Pediatric
Home Visiting, Mother-Baby Postpartum visits, Prenatal Home Visiting
Program, Immunizations, Well Child Services, Child Development Clinics
and Pediatric Care Management. Last year the program cared for 686 children,
90% from households at or below the poverty line.
In the past years,
the festival has raised more than $330,000 to aid the following local
charitable organizations:
2018: - Lakes Region
Humane Society, Hope House and Wolfeboro Nursery School
2017 - L.I.F.E
Ministries Food Pantry and The Nick/WARA
2016 - Child
Advocacy Center of Carroll County and Global
Awareness Local Action
2015 - Friends
of the Libby Museum and Kingswood
Youth Center
2014 - End
68 Hours of Hunger and Caregivers of Southern Carroll County
2013 - Ossipee
Children's Fund and All Saints' Preschool
2012 - Appalachian
Mountain Teen Project and Granite
State Adaptive
2011 - Wolfeboro
Nursury School and Assistance Canine Training Services
2010 - Wolfeboro
Senior Center and Meals
2009 - Lions Fuel
Assistance Fund
2008 - 10th anniversary
year, proceeds divided among past beneficiaries.
2007 - Wolfeboro
Area Meals on Wheels
2006 - Wolfeboro
Friends of Music, Appalachian Mountain Teen Project
2005 - Child Advocacy
Center of Carroll County
2004 - VNA Good
Beginnings
2003 - Lakes Region
Humane Society
2002 - Kingswood
Youth Center
2001 - Wolfeboro
Area Children's Center
2000 - Life Ministries
Food Pantry
1999 - Life Ministries
Food Pantry