Volunteer run · Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver
Seva Sangat Foundation is a community society, open to every person of every faith and background. We work on the ground: blood donation drives, hot meals handed out in person, and basic needs for families having a hard month.
Our name
Seva is selfless service. It is work done because it needs doing, expecting nothing in return, and never done from above. Sangat is the community that gathers to do it. Put together, the name is a promise: service given freely, by a community, to a community.
These words come from Sikh tradition, and that is where our values come from. What it means in practice is simple. The door is open to everyone. Nobody is asked their faith, their status or their story before they are helped, or before they are handed a box and welcomed in.
We are young and we are volunteer run. We would rather tell you exactly where we are than sound bigger than we are.
Coming up
Both are being organised right now. Dates are not fixed yet, and we will announce them here and by email the moment they are.
We are putting together a Seva Sangat team to give blood and plasma with Canadian Blood Services. Canadian Blood Services runs the clinic and does all of the collecting. Our part is filling the appointment book and getting people there.
A hot meal handed out in person to people living outside. Pizza and drinks ordered from a licensed restaurant and taken out by our volunteers. No queue, no forms, no questions, no photographs.
What we do
The Sikh faith we promote and serve, practical help for neighbours going through a hard stretch, and the gatherings that turn a set of households into a community.
We promote the Sikh faith and hold Sikh religious services. Gatherings through the year, learning for anyone who wants it, and making sure the language and the practice reach the next generation.
See the programs
Hot meals handed out in person, grocery hampers, hygiene and menstrual supplies, help for seniors and newcomers, blood and plasma drives, organ donor registration, and a fast response when a household loses everything.
See the programs
Gatherings and celebrations through the year, heritage and language kept alive with our elders rather than about them, and mentorship for young people looking for somewhere to be useful.
See the programs
Where these programs actually stand today
We are new and we are still building. Some of this work is starting now. The rest is planned. Nothing on this website should be read as a service that is already running, and we will mark each programme clearly as it opens. If you need help today, our contact page lists the numbers that can help you right now.
How we work
We are not building an institution. We are a group of volunteers who show up where the need is, hand over what is needed, and go home.
How to take part
A foundation this new does not need much money yet. It needs hands, and people willing to be the first ones out the door.
Handing out meals, carrying hampers, driving, interpreting between Punjabi and English, or helping behind the scenes. Tell us what you have and we will find the fit.
Restaurants, businesses, schools, clinics and other community groups. We would rather join work that already exists than duplicate it.
New and sealed household basics, hygiene items and warm clothing. There are things we can accept and things we cannot, and we list both.
Right now
Both are free, both take minutes, and neither one needs to wait for our first seva day. We would rather you go straight to the people who run them.
Canadian Blood Services takes bookings directly. One donation can help several people, and there is no synthetic substitute for plasma. Every dose starts with a donor.
Book online, or call 1 888 236 6283.
Two minutes on the British Columbia Organ Donor Registry. You need your BC Personal Health Number, your name, your date of birth and a BC address.
If you are 19 or older your registration is a legally valid record of your decision, and BC Transplant shows it to your family at the time. Telling the people close to you now makes that conversation far gentler.
Canadian Blood Services and BC Transplant run these programs, not us. Their names and marks appear here only so you can recognise where the links go. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with either organisation.
The hands that serve are holier than the lips that pray.
A saying long held in seva
Stay with us
No newsletter machine yet, and no list bought from anyone. Send us an email and we will add you by hand. We will only write when something real is happening, and you can ask us to stop at any time.
