Every One Every Day: TO

Making our neighbourhood better, one project at a time!

The CSI Institute has teamed up with Every One. Every Day in London, England to share the Our Neighbourhood project.

Our Neighbourhood Workshops and Project Starter Kits help you build practical projects in your neighbourhood, like planting trees or planning a community celebration. These projects enable neighbours to gather and learn from each other.

About Our Neighbourhood Workshops

Regent Park is a vibrant neighbourhood, with a rich diversity of people, languages, culture and skills. These workshops are all about learning practical and creative skills with your neighbours. They are easy to attend and designed by local people and organizations in Regent Park for everyone to participate in!

Come and join your neighbours for a 6 week program of workshops where you can learn from each other online in your home or in-person with physical distance measures in place.

Through November and December, there are workshops scheduled for you to take part in and enjoy something new in your community! This is a great opportunity to gain a new skill or explore a new hobby and meet other people.

Workshop List

Our Neighbourhood Paints: A painting project where each person gets to create a unique piece of art that comes together to create a mosaic community mural!

Our Neighbourhood Grows: Learn the basics of growing food right at home, without using soil or taking up too much space, using hydroponics

Our Neighbourhood Explores: A journaling exploration of your values and your community, using reflective activities, photography, found objects and innovative thinking

Our Neighbourhood Cooks: Learn to cook in big batches, sharing nutritious, delicious, and budget friendly recipes and ideas

Our Neighbourhood Plants: A community tree planting project, raising indigenous tree species from seed to plant in the local community

Our Neighbourhood Learns: Practise fun skills and hobbies with your neighbours and share some of your own!

The Program will run from Monday, November 2 until Friday Dec 11. Make sure you sign up to reserve your spot!

Download the Our Neighbourhood Booklet now for more information!

About Our Neighbourhood Starter Kits

Our Neighbourhood Project Starter Kits are perfect for a group of neighbours who want to participate in projects that strengthen our neighbourhood.

There are 12 Project Starter Kits to help you plan things like neighbourhood parties, pollinating gardens, swap n’ shop events, and chicken coops! They are all practical ideas that will help to enrich our great community.

Each of the Our Neighbourhood Starter Kits include materials, equipment, training, support, and helpful hints and tips!

Materials can include anything from soil and pots, to bee hives, to seed packets, to thought journals, to arts materials to project planning tools.

The starter kits are a way for you to join with a mini-neighbourhood ecosystem to plan and execute projects that will help make our community better and stronger.

There are different-sized kits for different-sized groups of people. Each of these kits have a minimum of 3 people, and can accommodate groups of up to 15 (depending on the kit). If you want to join but don’t know other people who would like to start these projects, we can help you find more people in your neighbourhood.

Kit List

Our Neighbourhood Celebrates: a winter lobby party

Our Neighbourhood Feasts: a community potluck

Our Neighbourhood Pollinates: build beehives and plant pollinator gardens

Our Neighbourhood Plays: open access community activity boxes

Our Neighbourhood Reads: children’s stories and activity programming

Our Neighbourhood Blooms: beautifying our community with bulbs and blooms

Our Neighbourhood Composts: reducing waste, and keeping our soil healthy

Our Neighbourhood Recycles: find ways to reuse our community plastic waste

Our Neighbourhood Shares: swap things with your neighbours, to reduce waste, and get the things you need

Our Neighbourhood Swaps: organize a cloth swap. It’s fun, creative and money saving

Our Neighbourhood Stories: collect and share stories of our vibrant neighbourhood

Our Neighbourhood Farms: chickens! Right here in Regent Park

Download the Our Neighbourhood Booklet now for more information!

What will I get out of this program?

Our Project Kits enable people to get together and learn from each other. Each kit focuses on practical project ideas to make our neighbourhood better.

You will learn new things and meet new people, all while strengthening our neighbourhood! It’s all about neighbours making the neighbourhood more wonderful!

Who will be there to help?

The Every One Every Day: TO Team is made up of CSI staff, project designers, and community researches. We’re all here to help!

You’ll also build connections to friends and neighbours in your community that will lend their skills to each of the neighbourhood projects. We’re making Regent Park better, together!

How much does the program cost?

The Our Neighbourhood Project is free to all residents of Regent Park. Anyone who lives in the neighbourhood can sign up to participate in up to 3 projects.

Why is this happening in Regent Park?

CSI has been involved in the Regent Park community for over 7 years.

Regent Park has a vibrant history of community action, activism, and advocacy. Regent Park residents are highly engaged, and highly motivated to make the community better.

With the Our Neighbourhood Project, CSI is offering a tool to engage neighbours, build ecosystems, and plan projects that will make Regent Park even better than it already is!

How do I connect with my neighbours?

You might already have connections with friends and neighbours in your community – encourage them to get involved so you can work on a project together! The Workshop projects you can do alone, or with your family. For the Our Neighbourhood Project Starter Kits you will need groups of between 3-15 people, depending on the project.

If you need help, the Every One Every Day: TO Team will help you recruit neighbours, and connect to others in the community that are interested in the same projects.

Who provides the project needed materials?

Many of the necessary items to get the Our Neighbourhood Projects started are included with your kits, provided by CSI and Every One Every Day:TO.

The workshops you sign up for will have a materials list – often using found objects from your home or community, or cheaply purchased locally.

The Project Starter Kits include most of what you need to get the project started, but you and your crew may decide to add additional items to enhance your project. The Every One Every Day: TO Team will help source items and resources with your group.

How much time will this take?

The beauty of the Our Neighbourhood Project is that you get to decide what works for you!

The workshop schedule is listed in the program calendar (Hyperlinked to PDF), and you can decide which sessions work for you.

As part of an Our Neighbourhood Starter project, you can work with your group to figure out what needs to be done, and which roles are best for you.

Everyone can participate, based on what they have to offer to the project.

I have barriers. What kind of accommodations are there?

Everyone is welcome to participate in the Our Neighbourhood Project, regardless of language, finances, mobility, access to technology etc. The Every One Every Day: TO Team can help.

When you register fill out the accessibility section, and the team will work with you to build a plan that works for you.

How can I get involved as a facilitator?

The Our Neighbourhood Project is just the beginning of the Every One Every Day Community Strategy!

We highly recommend getting involved in the Our Neighbourhood Project and get involved in your community.

The Every One Every Day TO Team can help you design new projects and initiatives in your community, and find opportunities for you to get more involved in facilitation.

I have more questions - who should I talk to?

The Every One Every Day: TO Team would be glad to hear from you!

Shoot us an email at everyoneeveryday[at]socialinnovation.ca

Community Partners

Thank you to our Partners Just Vertical, Green Thumbs Growing Kids, Art Heart, Paintbox Bistro, Regent Park Social, RPNA, Eva’s Print Shop and Daniel’s Corp.

Program Sponsors

EOED: TO is inspired by the model in London, UK, Participatory Canada is a national initiative established by McConnell and Participatory City Foundations and co-funded by McConnell and Employment and Social Development Canada.

STEP 1

APPLY FOR OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECT

Fill out the application form. Get excited about the options right here in your community and choose the projects that interest you!

Applications are open from Monday, October 5 – Saturday, October 31. Don’t wait to apply!

STEP 2

TALK TO OUR TEAM ABOUT HOW THE PROJECT WORKS

After you fill out the application and submit it, an Every One Every Day: TO team member will be in touch. You can ask questions about how it all works and talk through next steps.

STEP 3

SELECT AND CONFIRM YOUR PROJECTS

With a mix of individual and group projects, you have lots to choose from!

Confirm your interest in a workshop, and/or the starter kit projects you would like to be a part of.

Remember, you may be a part of any 3 Our Neighbourhood kits. You choose the mix of workshops, and/or starter kits that work for you.

STEP 4

GET GOING ON THE NEXT STEPS

If you are participating in a workshop, plan your schedule, what materials you need, and whether you will join online or in person (with covid precautions).

If you are participating in a starter kit project, you can get support from the Every One Every Day: TO team, to build your crew to get the project started.

Share photos of your progress with your neighbours on Whatsapp and Facebook.

STEP 5

START WORKING ON YOUR PROJECTS!

The Every One Every Day: TO team will provide the details on how to collect the materials needed for your kit. With either a pick up or drop off process, once you get your stuff, get started! Don’t worry, we are here to help!

Contact everyoneveryday[at]socialinnovation.ca if you have any questions that aren’t answered on our FAQ page!

Making our neighbourhood better, one project at a time.

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Every One Every Day: TO

Making our neighbourhood better, one project at a time!

About Our Neighbourhood Workshops

Workshop List

About Our Neighbourhood Starter Kits

Kit List

Community Partners

Program Sponsors

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