Ignite
The Ignite Gala is St. Barnabas School’s annual premier fundraiser. It’s a fun-filled evening that includes delicious food, drinks, entertainment as well as live and silent auctions. Ignite supports the mission, vision, and initiatives of St. Barnabas School ensuring our education serves in Christian faith, service, and academic excellence as a hallmark in our community. Through past galas, we have been able to update campus security, make classroom updates, and we are in the process of creating an outdoor classroom on our beautiful and extensive campus.
Ignite Gala 2025
Purchase Your Ignite Gala Ticket(s) Here
On Saturday, March 1, 2025, St. Barnabas School will host its 6th Annual Ignite Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn in Twinsburg. This year’s Gala proceeds will go toward the St. Barnabas: Our Faith, Our Family, Our Future Capital Campaign, with a specific focus on crucial safety and technology upgrades in the church. As a Catholic school, our students use the church regularly, not only for weekly Mass, but also for holiday performances, graduations, meetings, choir practice, sacramental events and a variety of other experiences that are educational, social and faith-based in nature. Our children's safety is our top priority, and the proceeds from this year’s gala will be dedicated to enhancing the safety and security systems in this vital building on our school campus. Planned improvements include upgraded security cameras, advanced doors with enhanced locking mechanisms, and other critical measures. Additionally, funds will support much-needed technology upgrades, such as a new sound system, lighting, and new screens, ensuring our space is both secure and functional for all who use it.
We welcome any St. Barnabas community member that would like to be involved with Ignite! There are many opportunities to contribute, from joining a committee, soliciting advertisers, helping lead a class basket, volunteering to set up or work the night of the event, or even just attending the event and raising your paddle to support St. Barnabas School - we are grateful for any and all support!
Ignite Raffle
Enter for a chance to win this year's Ignite Gala grand prize of $5,000:
Click to Purchase Raffle Tickets
$25 per raffle ticket. Winner will be drawn at the Ignite Gala on March 1, 2025. Ticket purchaser need not be present to win. All ticket purchasers will receive an email with their unique ticket number prior to the drawing. Click for full raffle rules.
How To Get Involved
- Volunteer
- Join a committee or volunteer at the event
- Lead a class auction basket
- Access our Parent Toolkit
- Attend parent parties
- Donate an auction item
- Become a sponsor or advertise
- Attend! Purchase an event ticket
- Bid on auction items - Our auction catalog will be published in February 2025.
Ignite Gala 2024
Our 5th Annual Ingite Gala was an evening of glitz and glamour, spent with friends and punctuated by a flurry of excitement from both our live and silent auctions and, new this year, casino games. This year Ignite raised $165,000 to fund our Campus Safety and Security efforts. All proceeds from the gala were put toward something we can never put a price tag on; updating and improving campus security and safety for our children’s school. Thanks to Ignite 2024, we were able to install:
- New concrete bollards at all main entrances, providing an added layer of protection.
- Cutting-edge security technology to monitor the school 24/7, ensuring constant vigilance
- New exterior doors with reinforced security doors, significantly strengthening the overall security of the building.
By the end of 2024, a fence will be installed on the north side of the building, increasing the safety and security of our children while they utilize that space for recess and extended day activities.
Ignite Gala 2023
The Ignite Gala, Let's Groove Tonight, was held on Saturday, February 11, 2023 and was a GROOVY time! We raised an astounding $192,000 at this year's gala and the monies raised will go towards reimagining our Applied Arts Corridor. As St. Barnabas Parish and School expand and grow, we have the opportunity to take advantage of space not previously utilized by the school. We envision a reimagination of the space located upstairs in the west wing of the school so our students can focus on applied arts in a larger, modernized, fully utilized space. The Applied Arts Reimagination will include updated spaces for: Library, STEM/Dream Den, Music, Band, Art, and SBTV Studio. Thank you to all our sponsors, attendees, volunteers and supporters that made this event such a success!
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