Interact and Energize-Empowering Teeny Tiny Locations
We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 Teeny Tiny Summit sequence, themed “Interact and Energize – Empowering Teeny Tiny Locations.” These thrilling occasions will happen on April 29 in Manitouwadge, Might 1 in Picton, and June 17 in Strathroy-Caradoc.

Teeny Tiny Summits concentrate on financial growth for small communities. They supply sensible examples, instruments, and alternatives to be taught from leaders in these areas. Attendees can community with professional volunteers and energetic neighborhood leaders who share a ardour for teeny tiny locations. Whether or not you’re a neighborhood chief, rural volunteer, financial developer, or entrepreneur, this summit is good for you.
Manitouwadge and Picton Summits:
Peter Kenyon, a famend neighborhood fanatic and social capitalist from the Financial institution of IDEAS, Australia is the keynote speaker on the Manitouwadge and Picton summits. These summits promise to have interaction, energize and empower communities by domestically pushed growth actions.
Peter Kenyon will cowl a spread of matters together with:
- Frequently rising and diversifying native management and capability.
- Fostering a constructive and can-do mindset.
- Actively encouraging wholesome neighborhood behaviours associated to inclusion, dialog, engagement and collaboration.
- Encouraging asset, thought and alternative obsession.
- Growing neighborhood “wow issue”.
- Enhancing life-style choices associated to housing, childcare, recreation, schooling, well being, retail companies and staying native.
- Creating an atmosphere that helps local-based employment, enterprise and financial growth.
The workshop will concentrate on these seven actions, offering neighborhood builders with the required rules, frameworks and instruments to drive neighborhood change. The format will embrace displays, interactive group workout routines and an open house expertise illustrated by tales, sensible examples and humor.
Native audio system will tackle necessary points:
- housing
- supporting youth
- rising neighborhood well-being
- funding of native initiatives
Strathroy-Caradoc Summit:
The Strathroy-Caradoc summit will spotlight concepts and those who have contributed to constructing a powerful neighborhood. Extra info to observe.
Register now!
- Strathroy-Caradoc, June 17 – registration hyperlink coming quickly!
Don’t miss this chance to attend a Teeny Tiny Summit and be a part of a transformative expertise.
About Teeny Tiny Summits
The Ontario Ministry of Rural Affairs (MRA) in partnership with the Rural Ontario Municipal Affiliation (ROMA), helps Ontario’s smallest communities by Teeny Tiny Financial Improvement Summits. The Summits are centered on well timed matters and challenges dealing with small rural communities. Since 2016 the Summits have reached over 2,750 individuals from throughout Ontario.
About Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyon, Director of the Financial institution of IDEAS, has over 40 years of expertise in neighborhood and financial transformation. Peter is enthusiastic about small rural city reinvention and has labored with over 2000 rural communities to spark their very own concepts and spend money on constructing sustainable financial futures. He has hosted the Nationwide Rural Help ‘Small City Reinvention’ nationwide webinar program, lectured in graduate ‘Rural Entrepreneurial Improvement’ models, coordinated the “Neighborhood Builders” grassroots management program throughout Australia, formulated 200+ small city ‘Neighborhood Motion Plans,’ and authored 25+ publications within the fields of neighborhood, enterprise, and youth growth.