Developer Ryan Beedie and wife Cindy Beedie’s philanthropic Stanley Park concert on the weekend raised $2.5 million for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank (GVFB), Ryan Beedie told BIV Tuesday morning.
He explained that the approximately 3,000 attendees at the Aug. 23 concert, which featured Def Leppard and others, raised about $1.15 million. He then more than matched that amount to get the total to the round number of $2.5 million, he said.
That amount exceeded the previous record of $2 million for the food bank from a Beedie concert. That was the haul at the 2023 concert, when Beedie double-matched attendees’ donations.
Beedie said Lululemon founder Chip Wilson gave a “generous” donation but it was one for which
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