The Sutton Group – West Coast Realty team in Surrey with their award.

The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board recently presented its highest honours for community giving. For the first time, the individual and corporate Realtors Make Good Neighbours awards recipients were from the same office. The individual award went to Lucky Gill, with her brokerage, Sutton Group – West Coast Realty in Surrey receiving recognition for being the most community-minded office in the Fraser Valley.

Sutton Group – West Coast Realty, located in Newton, donated significant time and money to over a dozen charities and events in 2012, including the Canadian Cancer Society, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen and the B.C. Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund. The office represents 70-plus Realtors and is lead by Ishaq Ismail, managing broker.

Ishaq Ismail and Lucky Gill

In addition to selling real estate and volunteering her time with the Mannkind Charitable Society, Lucky Gill heads Global Girl Power Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to empowering, educating and supporting women and girls locally and across the globe. She’s led annual walks to raise awareness of female feticide, organized candlelight vigils for Amanda Todd and all victims of bullying, rape and extreme acts of violence such as the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the U.S. She has also held empowerment workshops for high school girls on body image and health.