New name, same mission for poverty-fighting SUMS Place in Whalley<\/p>\n
Published 11:30 am Friday, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n
After 30 years of work to address homelessness and poverty in Whalley, Surrey Urban Mission Society is now known as SUMS Place.<\/p>\n
The new name was introduced during a SUMS Place annual general meeting Thursday, June 18 at Civic Hotel, along with a five-year strategic plan for the faith-based, nonprofit charitable organization, founded in 1995.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the next natural step in who we\u2019ve become,\u201d said William Myers, CEO of SUMS Place Society.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started with the help of the local church, people who wanted to help their neighbours,\u201d he added. \u201cThirty years later, we operate more than 140 shelter beds annually and serve hundreds of meals a day. The name SUMS Place captures what people already know us as: a place to belong for everyone in need. Our new strategic plan sets out how we\u2019ll honour that promise for the next five years and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Myers, a lifelong Surrey resident, was hired as CEO in May 2024<\/a>, replacing Jack O\u2019Halloran. With a background in public health and non-profit management, Myers had previously worked for Fraser Health, Canadian Red Cross and governments.<\/p>\n SUMS <\/a>Place<\/a>, headquartered at 10776 King George Blvd., provides emergency shelter, food security, case management and care to adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New name, same mission for poverty-fighting SUMS Place in Whalley Published 11:30 am Friday, June 19, 2026 After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-747929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}