The Hub provides opportunities to sharpen your business and personal skills through education, networking, brainstorming and peer support. The Hub is a non-profit initiative supported by the Town of Erin.

This bite sized workshop will go over the key phases of Market Research, resources to utilize for gathering useful and accurate information, and how to analyze the data from your findings into actionable information.

Presented by Angela Poirier, Program Coordinator at the Business Centre Guelph-Wellington (BCGW). The Business Centre Guelph-Wellington provides the entry point for entrepreneurship in Guelph and Wellington County, helping individuals get into business for themselves. BCGW support the growth and expansion of small businesses in our region.

Offered through the Town of Erin, in partnership with the Business Centre Guelph-Wellington and sponsored by Innovation Guelph.

The Town of Erin will be carrying out a "Erin Photo Challenge" for the month of June.

This initiative is to encourage Erin residents and local businesses to participate in promoting general well-being during the pandemic, as well as promoting local businesses in the area.  

We are looking for participants who would like to participate on social media, the criteria is listed below. 

Your photo collection will be best suited for Instagram, but we encourage you to post on all social networks, with the use of the hashtag - #ErinPhotoChallenge 

The option is yours, if you would like to post one topic daily.. or all at once in a “slide format” for easy viewing. 

Please feel free to be creative.. Ideally this is meant to showcase your business and anything you’d like to share in a fun and unique way. 

Topics to choose from:                   

1. Something yellow 

2. Something that makes you happy 

3. Something you had to eat from a local restaurant/cafe

4. Something you did today, maybe baked a dessert 

5. Something unique, a special product from your business

We look forward to your photos! 

Guelph-Wellington businesses can now sign up to join the Circular Economy.

The digital passport helps businesses develop circular business models, and methods to reduce emissions and increase sustainability. Participating businesses will have access to one-on-one guidance on how to achieve their circular goals and can browse the various services offered throughout the Our Food Future ecosystem.

The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, has released its Roadmap to Reopen, a three-step plan to safely and cautiously reopen the province and gradually lift public health measures based on the provincewide vaccination rate and improvements in key public health and health care indicators.

The Ontario government announced it is providing one‐time payments of $10,000 to $20,000 to support eligible small tourism and travel businesses struggling to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the new Ontario Tourism and Travel Small Business Support Grant. Deadline to apply: Friday June 25, 2021

The economic profiles of communities across Canada were chosen to ensure regional and linguistic diversity. These profiles use labour market information to show the role that immigration has played or could play to help communities flourish. The economic profiles were created using publicly available Statistics Canada data, largely from the 2016 Census.

Through the Immigration Matters initiative, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC) is working to combine the power of storytelling with facts about immigration to promote positive engagement between newcomers and Canadians. We hope to inspire balanced and informed conversations about immigration in communities across Canada. If you are interested in hosting a community conversation about immigration locally, please download the toolkit and reach out to us at IRCC.ImmigrationMatters-ImmigrationCaCompte.IRCC@cic.gc.ca

On October 30, 2020, The Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tabled the 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan, which set out a path for responsible increases to immigration targets to help the Canadian economy recover from COVID-19, drive future growth and create jobs for Canadians. While travel restrictions remain in place to protect the health and safety of Canadians, IRCC has announced new ways for those who have already been hard at work to stay in Canada permanently. 

Stay up to date with the Town of Erin's efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, while ensuring businesses and residents are continuing to receive service excellence.