2025 AGM
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Otter Housing Association held its third Annual General Meeting. You can download the Annual Report from our Operations Director below. As well, a message from Olivia our Community Project Coordinator:
Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for being here. Our third AGM! It’s so nice to finally do this in person. I always mention this, but especially this year—with everything moving so quickly—I appreciated the pause and reflection on 2024 as a snapshot of everything we’ve accomplished.
It’s safe to say 2024 was the year of the money! As David mentioned, we were incredibly successful with all of our grants. Funders know who we are now—they see our vision and are supporting us to get there. We’ve secured over $2.7 million in grants, which puts us in a strong position to pursue the rest of the financing needed for the project. We’re getting so close to construction! All the work we’ve done since 2021 has brought us to these incredible outcomes in 2024.
Beyond our strong grant success, we also had a huge and very tangible win—our land and our road! OHA now owns 4 acres in Port Rexton, and we’re connected to the rest of the town. This is the first new development (outside of driveways!) in Port Rexton in a long time. I’ve loved walking the new road and seeing members of our community doing the same. It’s been really special.
All of these steps forward have led us into the next phase: setting up our design-construction team! Led by Woodford Architecture, our group of engineers and energy modellers officially began their work. It’s incredibly exciting to be a part of that process. Moving from vision to action and learning to prepare a project for construction.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without our amazing team. Chelsea, thank you so much for joining us this year! You’ve been such a valuable addition, and I truly appreciate the insight and experience you bring. Carrie, Nick, and Jill—thank you for sticking with us and continuing to see this through.
I especially want to thank you all for your support during our Information Session night. And David—thank you so much for leading that session. It was such a great learning experience for both me and our organization. Your continued support and guidance have been absolutely vital to this project, and I truly couldn’t do this without you.