COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Community Partners are businesses and organizations that support our work through many different means. While Sponsors make annual payments to support our work for a number of perks and benefits (learn more at Become A Sponsor under our Get Involved tab), Community Partners all support our work in unique ways. Some offer resources, others provide discounts or services, but what they all have in common is the gratitude of our organization and community. Below you can read about them and the work they do.

THE COAST 89.7 FM

The Coast is a community-based not-for-profit radio station. They are one hundred percent locally owned and operated—not part of a large media conglomerate. 

YMCA OF CAPE BRETON

Established in 1886, the YMCA of Cape Breton is the oldest, most diverse charity on Cape Breton Island. The YMCA is a volunteer-driven, charitable organization serving several areas of the Island.

With a commitment to nurturing the potential of children, youth and seniors, promoting healthy living, and fostering social responsibility, the YMCA ensures that every individual has access to the essentials needed to learn, grow and thrive.

Serving over 35,000 individuals, the YMCA of Cape Breton provides vital services such as health, fitness and recreation, child care, education, training and employment programs.  The YMCA is an inclusive organization connecting people to life-building opportunities, to each other and to programs that will enhance their quality of life.

United way cape breton

If you care about your community, about where you live, you should care about United Way Cape Breton. United Way Cape Breton’s mission is to build stronger communities, make Cape Breton a safe place to live, free from crime, where every person has a roof over their head and food to eat, a good education to get a good job. A place where people are healthy and financially secure. A place where people want to live, raise their families and grow their businesses.

Day to day finance

Alison Giovannetti started Day to Day Finance 3 years ago with a passion for helping small businesses to fill the administrative gap between themselves and its financial stakeholders. With over 13 years of experience in the field she has expanded the business to provide, alongside her team, the services to bridge that gap and provide economic impact here in Cape Breton. 

cape breton FUDGE CO.

You may recognize their fudge from our concessions stand! They make all their products on site!! So the shop always smells amazing!!! In these times not everyone can make it in to visit them, which is why they offer shipping!!

CAPE BRETON Partnership

The Cape Breton Partnership brings together people who believe in the power of working together to increase economic opportunities and aims to transform Unama’ki - Cape Breton into the most creative and prosperous place on Earth.

cape breton Regional Chamber of Commerce

For every business within the CBRM to be a valued member of our Chamber and to work together to build a thriving, confident community where business needs to be.

Downtown Sydney

The core of Cape Breton, Downtown Sydney is home to local live theatre performances, restaurants, pubs, cafes, unique local retail shops, salons, and various services. It is the heart of our live entertainment, theatre, craft, business, and retail communities.

Their mandate is to promote retail and commercial activity as well as assist with beautification, improvements and maintenance of properties. They make it their priority to facilitate communication between business owners to ensure an efficient relay of information. They also promote and coordinate events within our boundaries.

Theatre Nova Scotia

Theatre Nova Scotia is a provincial organization that serves individual theatre artists as well as organizations in the professional and community theatre realms. Our membership is diverse – from long-standing regional theatre to recent theatre school graduates and committed volunteer teams to high school students testing the waters at DramaFest.

Theatre Nova Scotia offers programs and services to support and highlight the vibrant and varied theatre activities throughout the province.

Music Nova Scotia

Music Nova Scotia is a non-profit organization that has worked since 1989 with a mandate to encourage the creation, development, growth, and promotion of Nova Scotia’s music industry. Music Nova Scotia exists to grow and nurture the Nova Scotia music industry, retain our own natural resources, and promote investment, by:

• Providing education, information, and resources to our membership
• Acting as the advocate for the industry to all levels of government and private enterprise
• Supporting membership in the promotion of the export of Nova Scotia music regionally, nationally, and internationally