Hello Centre Wellington!

Thank you for joining us. We are excited to hear from you!

The Township is creating a strategy to improve how we engage the community to inform actions, decisions, and changes that affect our daily lives. This engagement strategy is about more than a single project - it's about building lasting trust and better ways of working together.

Community engagement is about how and when you're involved in shaping change, action and decisions in our community. We know you haven't always felt heard in the past, and we want to do better.

Every voice is important, and we want to hear from everyone. Whether you've lived here all your life or joined our community yesterday. Whether you share your voice at every opportunity or listen quietly in the background. Whether you're a part of a large group, a small group, or no group at all, we want to hear from you.

How to Get Involved

  • Join the Conversation Online

    Share your ideas from now until September 21, 2025. See and respond to what others have said.

    Join the Conversation 

  • Come Say Hello

    Find us at community events, parks, markets, and more!

    Find out Where 

  • Host a Conversation

    You don't need us - get your friends, family, community, and colleagues together and host your own.

    Find out How 

  • Have Us Come to You

    Have a group in mind that might be interested in connecting? Let us know and we'll come to you!

    Find out How 

  • Lunch Talks

    Have time over your lunch break? Join us and other community members by video or phone to talk community engagement in the Township!

    Find out When 

No one wants to spend their time without knowing why. Your input will be used to help shape the Township's very first Community Engagement Strategy! We want to engage with you in meaningful, open, transparent and inclusive ways where you will feel like your input makes a difference

We will use your input along with other information:

  1. INTERNATIONAL: Best practice standards of engagement.
  2. RESEARCH: Success and learnings from other municipalities across Canada.
  3. PUBLIC & STAFF: Input from this engagement process.

The Community Engagement Charter:

  • Council, with recommendation from staff

The Community Engagement Strategy:

  • Council, with recommendation from staff

The Action Plan:

  • Staff

The Community Engagement Staff Toolkit:

  • Staff

We interact with our community in a lot of different ways for a lot of different reasons. When we say community engagement, we mean:

"An intentional process with the purpose of working in inclusive and respectful ways to shape decisions, actions, impacts, or change. It is: purposeful and goal driven, trust and relationship focused, values based and people centred, inclusive and equity centred, and impact and outcome oriented." - as defined by The International Association of Public Participation (IAP2)

Who is involved in decision making depends on the project. This can be project managers, senior managers, Township Council, or those outside the Township like County Council, the Province, or others.

What's considered in making decisions also depends on the project. For example, this might include technical studies, legislated requirements, best practices and other information including input from the community.

Project Updates

We'll post regular updates about the project here. To get updates by email, click the "Follow" button above (page header).