The St. John's Status of Women Council has been open for 42 years. It opened in 1972. It was opened by 10 very strong women in our province who organized that. They opened it with very little funding, and then in that fall they opened the women's centre.
Currently, the St. John's Status of Women, which runs the women's centre, and the women's centre are actually two different organizational entities. The St. John's Status of Women receives from the Women's Policy Office $127,000 a year. The women's centre is totally funded on fundraising and donations.