Less than a week after finding out their construction project had effectively been dropped, the Vancouver Island non-profit Power To Be is already seeing organizations stepping up with their time and donations to help pick the work back up.

“We’re happy to see things through right to the end,” said Marshal Mason, owner-operator of Red and Blue Heating and Cooling.

Local contractors, like Red and Blue Heating and Cooling, are volunteering their services to help Power To Be finish the expansion HeroWork could not.

“They really enjoy the sense of community,” said Mason, whose staff is offering up their free time to finish up the construction at Power To Be.

“It was so difficult for us to come to this decision because it’s meant so much,” Paul Latour, CEO and founder of HeroWork, told CHEK News Thursday.

Some HeroWork staff are back on site at Power To Be finishing what they can before the non-profit known for breathing new life into local charities shuts down at the end of the month.

Keep reading on cheknews.ca