This Section Will Be Updated Regularly As Supporting Efforts Are Added!

This section will provide more details for each small business assisting our efforts here in Oshawa. The support can range from helping with building resources to helping with fundraising efforts. We are so grateful for the support of the amazing businesses with the beauty of the vision we are creating. This is our community, this is our city!

We encourage you to message us through any one of Just Oshawa's social media profiles or here on this network or e-mail us with any questions. We are more than happy to arrange a time/place in Oshawa to meet to learn more about any one of our efforts/programs/projects.

Itty Bitty Candles

We look forward to additional Itty Bitty Candles products for our ongoing fundraising efforts. 

Dyno Crystals

We are looking forward to adding more products from Dyno Crystals for our ongoing fundraising efforts.

LaundryHaven

We are grateful that LaundryHaven has made laundry services available for the LIFE Community Project in exchange for promotions through the Just Oshawa network.

Starting Point Massage And Esthetics

Many thanks to Starting Point Massage And Esthetics for having many of the fundraising products on display & sale within the spa in support of our efforts.

Are you an Oshawa small business that would like to suggest possible options or how your business can assist our efforts please connect with Just Oshawa or John.

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone

We have been making progress with a lot of the work we have been doing. As part of our programs/projects, fundraising is not the only way we have amazing Oshawa small businesses participating in our efforts. One of our goals is to help build resources to assist those most in need. 

With a growing reach and engagement for Just Oshawa, we have options to work with local small businesses. With an exchange of promotions across our extensive and growing social networks and banners within our website participants can assist with our efforts to build resources. 

LIFE Community Project has been creating assistance for those most in need here in Oshawa for many years. The creator John E Walker has been on the streets of Oshawa assisting those most in need for over 15 years now. The many years of experience have created a deep understanding of the needs and issues faced by the homeless, and marginalized and the struggles individuals face with food insecurities. The entire site has been built to create more options to support those most in need while raising awareness of small businesses.

Today are moving forward with more beautiful activities supporting our community of Oshawa! We want to welcome LaundryHaven who has joined the efforts to support the LIFE Community Project efforts in Oshawa. In exchange for providing promotions for his business, we will be able to add a new resource, laundry services! With the arranged agreement we have access to washing/drying without having to worry about taking funds from our fundraising efforts. 

With laundry services, we can provide an option for an individual within our Not Just A Food Program if it is needed to get the clothing washed/dried. As part of our Free Clothing program, all donated clothing is first washed and dried before being handed over to the person receiving the items. Having clean clothing helps with personal hygiene and maintaining a positive mental attitude. Part of our program is helping to eliminate issues faced with ongoing struggles, worrying about how to afford the money to pay for washing/drying when you do not even have money for food, we now have options. All-access to this service is managed and maintained by the LIFE Community Project and the LIFE Community Partners.

We are creative with our ability to offer promotions in exchange for helping build various resources. We will be seeking Oshawa small businesses that can provide haircut and style options, massage & esthetics options, and health or holistic options, message Just Oshawa or John to arrange a meeting to discover more about various options.

You will start to see more and more Oshawa small businesses starting to participate in our various activities. We have been making arrangements to make local small business products available for our ongoing fundraising efforts. We are looking for other amazing products that are made or provided in Oshawa, we are not looking for free products, we are looking for wholesale pricing for our fundraising efforts. The goal is to make sure that the business still makes money so that the effort is sustainable and available long term. If you are a local small business that makes or produces/has products and think you would be interested in learning more about our fundraising effort to support those most in need here in Oshawa message Just Oshawa or John.

We will be working on promotions in the coming days and you will see more additions to the various sections. With more than 24 venues with their Food/Drink Specials now listed it will be months for us to populate the more than 60+ venues. We have started work on the weekly events, and only 11 venues are listed currently, and will have many more in the coming weeks. We continue to add new images and images from previous years to our Pics In Oshawa, soon we will be opening up the option for Oshawa Photographers to add images and assist with awareness of their business/passion for sharing the beauty found in Oshawa. You can message John to learn more.

Watch for our posts about the start of our free draws for members of Just Oshawa, we have some great products planned for the draws including a large Himalayan salt lamp to mark the first 200 members of Just Oshawa group. All these draws have to be picked up or delivered in Oshawa, more details will be found when we start the promotions for the draws in the coming weeks.

In the coming weeks, we will be able to announce details about FIFE - Food Is For Everyone and the free plants being made available to members of our Just Oshawa group. The only way we can make the plants available for all is to freely give them for free. You can discover more about our efforts for options to improve an individual's overall health and well-being with the FIFE - Food Is For Everyone group. 

We have a busy month ahead with starting and implementing some of our projects/programs, so we have not decided to do an extra newsletter for this month yet. Best to keep an eye on the main website page and the Latest New Feeds. 

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone

You may have seen some posts about the start of a new food program and fundraising efforts, we still have more to share.

First, we have a new program starting here in Oshawa, Not Just A Food Program that will start in May.

The great news is that we have our fundraising platform now complete and ready to start with ongoing fundraising efforts. We have some great plans to help with fundraising efforts for other small Oshawa-based groups/organizations. You can find a list of all the Fundraising Products available for fundraising efforts here in Oshawa. 

Visit our The Basics Fundraising With Us to learn more. Just Oshawa is a hyperlocal network and part of our plan shortly is to have local artists who would like to participate in fundraising efforts in Oshawa to be able to list some of their products for fundraising efforts. We will be posting more about this in a future Newsletter Update, we wanted to share a little of our plans with the fundraising products. 

In the coming days, you will start to notice we will be seeking local small businesses that would like to help raise awareness of the various fundraising efforts we will have. Through a combination of print/social media posts, we will expand our reach and engagement for all of our efforts with full promotions for our signature listings. This will be an ongoing expansion, adding more Food/Drink Specials, Events, adding more small businesses with our listings in Bars/Restaurants/Venues,
Small Businesses, Artist Marketplace, and Groups/Organizations. It will be free for Oshawa small businesses to have their business listed with us in the appropriate sections, this will always be the case.

We also wanted to you know that we will be starting our first draws, these draws will be free, just for being a member of our Just Oshawa group. We love to give back, we are very thankful for your support and the support of the efforts to assist those most in need. All draws will need to be picked up/delivered in Oshawa, depending on the prizes, you may find some are in digital formats and are for our Oshawa members.

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone

We have a lot of great news to share, our new group for Just Oshawa, your hyperlocal network for Oshawa. We have started to migrate all the content from our old website to this network. This will allow us to not only allow members to join with basic profiles but also help us reduce spam and unwanted content. We have additional abilities to allow the admin to control specific groups bringing greater privacy to the work with those most in need we do.  We require all members to act with love and compassion for all, we take this seriously and will ban anyone not participating with love for all. Love is about acceptance, and celebrating our differences, this is a simple truth that guides us with all our activities. Want to learn more about this, visit our LIFE - Love Is For Everyone group. 

Most content is public and anyone can visit the website but only members can access the My Page content or Members Pages, and only members can join the conversations and add content. 

All listings are free for Oshawa small businesses, to learn more about the benefits of the free listings, visit our Social Media Collective Marketing, and for more detailed info visit our SMCM page. We will be adding more content to this section as we go that will include upcoming events.

With Just Oshawa, we maintain our signature Food/Drink Specials and Weekly Events listings, and with this new group for Just Oshawa, we have a greater set of options to help you discover the content that interests you most. We added a Daily Option and a section for Categories that we hope will help you easily find the content you seek. In the coming days, we will be adding the 30+ venues already listed and updated then adding more as we reach out to more Oshawa venues. We are also starting to update and add the Oshawa events that are weekly first then will start adding other 1 off events found in Oshawa. Once this work is complete we will add and start to promote along with methods to send us details to add your Oshawa events to our listings.  

Our Free Meals option was the first section we completed, for more than 5 years we have maintained these free meals in Oshawa list. By adding the Daily search option and the by-meal type we know this will be a valuable tool to assist those most in need, more and more find themselves with food insecurities and we hope this will be helpful.

You will start to see more and more of our Oshawa Connections being added to the following listings: Bar/Restaurant/Venue, Oshawa Artist Marketplace, Group/Organization, and Small Businesses. One of the improvements we made was that we have a Downtown option with each category. You will find that as we add more content you will start to see more and more categories added. All content is verified to be in Oshawa, we do not post or share content that is not in or from Oshawa. We know how frustrating it can be to find Oshawa content, many of the groups say Oshawa but you find content across the Durham Region or other communities, just know that when we add content to Just Oshawa we verify the content to be Oshawa content, it that simple we are hyperlocal for Oshawa and maintain that objective at all times. 

We will leave this update with the knowledge that we have started adding to the Pics In Oshawa and will find a variety of images and you can select from not just type of pics like Butterflies, and Landscapes but also the option by date taken. Again we verify that all images have been taken in Oshawa and the photographer's name is included with each pic. This will give you an idea that shortly we will be adding different photographers to the pics taken in Oshawa. 

In the coming weeks, you will see posts about the LIFE Community Project, LIFE, Fundraising, and FIFE sections when we have these sections completed. Watch for more news as we complete the work and start the various projects/programs.

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone