Daytime Warming Centre

Daily 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. until March 15, 2025

Contact the centre at 604-255-0340 or by email at info@lookoutsociety.ca

A minimum of three (3) centre staff and security are on site at all times. Collaborating service providers may also be on site including nurses, social workers, doctors, counsellors, and government ministry staff.

30 is maximum capacity.

Services offered include light meals and snacks, bathroom facilities, addressing basic medical needs, connections to service providers, which improves mental and physical well-being for centre guests.

The City of White Rock contracts Lookout Housing and Health Society & Engaged Communities Canada Society to operate the warming centre. www.lookoutsociety.ca/

There are no security cameras at the centre. White Rock Council has hired extra security to patrol the area outside the hours of operation for $30,000.

Should you observe any illegal activity or feel unsafe at any time, please call the RCMP.

Most of the people who use the Daytime Warming Centre live year-round in our community and each have their own circumstances. Currently there is no daily overnight shelter operating on the peninsula.

The City of Surrey operates an emergency overnight shelter on nights when temperatures are below zero.

South Surrey Recreation & Arts Centre EWR 
14601 20th Avenue
Tel: 604-315-0267

Open 10 p.m. – 7 a.m. Entrance located near the lower parking lot on the southeast corner of the building. 45 spaces - Adult 19+

The Daytime Warming Centre is a drug free zone. There is no safe injection site located at the centre. 

Yes. The City has created a Warming Centre Parks Ambassador volunteer program. Ambassadors have been trained to sweep the park twice per day. They alert the proper authorities who have the proper tools and knowledge to remove it safely. The sweep area is detailed below:

• West: as far as the White Rock Tennis Club, the entire parking lot and adjacent trees along Anderson and follow that down to the arena.
• South: the front of both the arena and the curling rink. East: inside the community gardens and parking lot to the daycare on the corner of Vine Ave and Oxford St.
• North: all of the play areas (pickleball courts, etc) and the grassy area with picnic benches, as well as along 16 Ave to the bus stop.

They do not go as far as Generations Playground.

Should you spot drug paraphernalia please do not touch it. 

Report it to the centre staff by calling 604-255-0340 .

Currently, in B.C., public drug use is illegal.  People are not allowed to use illicit drugs in public spaces, such as hospitals, businesses, transit, and parks.  

If you see illegal activity, or feel unsafe, please call the RCMP.

Public washrooms are available at the Centre for Active Living, 1475 Anderson Street.

$439,970.41 to operate until March 15, 2025, including the cost of security.