Board members, staff, volunteers, participants, funders, guests, residents all are invited to bring you their latest thoughts, likes and head shakes about matters that count in our community.

FoodFit starting in January!

We’re SUPER excited to be offering FoodFit!
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Building new Gardens!

The first step in any new building project is scribbling out plans and considering many possibilities for size and location. At first, I envisioned a huge garden bed divided into
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Long-term Landlord Housing Initiative Update and Charter

The Meeting Place is happy to announce we have selected an Advisory Group for the Long-term Landlord Housing Initiative. Tanis Henderson, Mike Brown, Dominik Franken, and Karen Phillips will be
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SPARK Housing Initiative: New Funding for Project to Address Housing Stock

In early March The Meeting Place in Tobermory received confirmation from Bruce County that it will receive $110,000.00 in funding for the Long-term Landlord Housing Initiative, a project that emerged
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SPARK Housing Initiative – Phase Two: Problems with Solutions

The Spark Housing Initiative of The Meeting Place Tobermory has undertaken further investigation into the potential for increasing long-term rental housing in the community. This second phase of the housing
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Launching Report on the SPARK Housing Initiative – ‘Growing the Long-Term Rental Housing Inventory’

The Meeting Place Tobermory and report author Hazel Smith are pleased to release this new report focusing on long-term rental accommodation in the Northern Bruce. This is an investigative report
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New Food App Launched by United Way Grey Bruce

The United Way of Bruce Grey and their associated food programs work tirelessly to address the increased need in our community and provide fresh and healthy food to an ever-growing
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SPARK Project Newsletter, Issue #6

SPARK – Seasonal Workers & Entrepreneurs Spark Ideas (for our Community) As we follow the Spark project objectives, all the Tobermory Spark initiatives have been developed to their Prototyping stage.
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Re-Opening Plan under Stage 3

Consultation discussion and site visit; participating – Noreen Steinacher & Jace Weir (Board Members), Ryan Deska (MNBP), Chantal Lefebvre (volunteer) The Meeting Place Tobermory is a registered charity and is
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Will Getting to a New Normal Include a Basic Income Guarantee?

By Noreen Steinacher and Brian McHattie This our third and final letter (for now) on the concept of a basic income guarantee (BIG), reflecting on whether the idea would improve
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