Late funding injection saves Regina's Ignite Adult Learning Centre from permanent closure

Alex Kozroski · CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 5:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Ignite Adult Learning Centre volition continue to run successful Regina for astatine slightest different year.

Ignite provides a GED programme and resources for addiction recovery, termination prevention and lodging support. The enactment announced past period that it would permanently adjacent successful September aft its provincial backing was slashed successful half.

In a erstwhile interrogation with CBC, an Ignite bureau manager warned that the closure of the installation could summation homelessness and unemployment. Now, the province's Ministry of Immigration and Career Training has reinstated the backing for the clip being.

Dellice Saxby, Ignite's enforcement director, got the ministry's attraction by raising the contented astatine the legislature past month. Saxby said the lawman curate and the adjunct lawman curate visited Ignite aft that.

"We had a truly bully speech astir each the things we bash present and however we were hoping that different ministry would beryllium consenting to travel connected committee to enactment america arsenic well," Saxby said.

The ministry is bumping Ignite's funding back up to $580,000, from $250,000 promised successful the astir caller budget. An further $50,000 was provided by the Ministry of Justice, which was connected to Ignite's community information and well-being program. 

"We had [students] gleefully jumping around. We had immoderate that were conscionable blessed and relieved and successful tears," Saxby said. "The unit are inactive benignant of adjusting our brains from having to find caller jobs to getting to proceed the enactment that we love." 

Saxby said Ignite volition apt person to enactment immoderate of its reserve funds toward this year's operating costs, arsenic the enactment is inactive looking for astir $250,000 from the community, the City of Regina or private corporations.

"We are conscionable incredibly grateful," Saxby said. "I had nary thought that immoderate of that enactment would beryllium truthful vocal and truthful contiguous and to person this benignant of an impact. I knew determination were members successful portions of the assemblage that would decidedly enactment us, but they were truthful effectual successful their messaging that it really caused the authorities to alteration their course."