Calgary Engineers Host Mini Golf Fundraiser for Mental Health Hub
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CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 14, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- the Calgary office of SMP Engineering will host Mini Putt 2026, a staff-built mini golf course winding through the firm’s Kensington offices. The event, which will welcome close to 1,000 guests, aims to raise funds for The Alex Community Health Centre to help build a dedicated Mental Health Hub.
The Alex is renovating roughly 3,800 square feet on the second floor of its Community Health Centre to create the Hub. The project, estimated at $200,000, includes six private consult rooms for one-on-one counselling and mental health appointments. Currently, The Alex’s existing consult rooms are located in high-traffic clinical areas, making it difficult to offer the calm, private setting mental health visits require.
SMP has committed to directing all Mini Putt 2026 proceeds toward the project, with a fundraising goal of $45,000. The need is clear: of the roughly 15,000 Calgarians The Alex serves each year, 40 percent rated their mental health as poor or fair on their first self-assessment, according to data collected between April 2025 and March 2026.
Mini Putt began in 1997 as a way for SMP to bring clients and industry partners together. A charitable component was added since 2003, and the biennial event has since raised more than $200,000 for Calgary organizations including Hull Services, Inn from the Cold, Meals on Wheels, and Wood’s Homes. The 2024 edition raised a record $41,623 for The Alex’s Community Kitchen.
Demand this year has been unprecedented. Sponsorships sold out within hours of the first invitations on September 14, and more than $20,000 was raised in the first 24 hours, nearly half of the 2024 total.
SMP has committed to The Alex as its Mini Putt charity partner through 2028. Since 2024, SMP staff have volunteered in The Alex’s Community Kitchen, helped create decorations for the Calgary Pride Parade, and volunteered for National Indigenous Peoples Day. The firm is also exploring how to contribute its electrical engineering services to the Hub’s construction.
WHAT: SMP Mini Putt 2026, a staff-built mini golf fundraiser for The Alex Mental Health Hub WHEN: Friday, November 6, 2026, from 11 a.m. into the evening WHERE: SMP Engineering, 403, 1240 Kensington Road NW, Calgary WHO: Close to 1,000 guests from Calgary’s architecture, engineering, construction, and development community; SMP partners and staff; representatives of The Alex
SMP Engineering is an independent electrical engineering consultancy with more than 100 professionals in Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge. Founded in the 1970s, SMP delivers coordinated electrical engineering, lighting design, power distribution, sustainability, and life safety services across commercial, infrastructure, community, healthcare, and residential projects.
For nearly 55 years, The Alex has been there for Calgarians in the moments when life is most uncertain. When illness, hunger, trauma, or unstable housing collide, a crisis rarely has just one cause, so The Alex brings medical, mental health, and social supports together under one integrated, team-based approach. Each year, The Alex meets approximately 15,000 people where they are and walks alongside them toward health, home, and hope, offering not just care, but dignity, healing, safety, and a path forward.