Senior Centre
It was also noted that there are local seniors’ clubhouses in two residential subdivisions, which are not affiliated with the Town, but provide additional services to seniors in these neighbourhoods. If these are run by formal groups in public settings, there may be opportunities for the Town to collaborate with them in providing neighbourhood- based services. Recommendation
As part of the Community Centre, the Tillsonburg Senior Centre is Town owned and maintained/cleaned. It is leased and fully operated by a volunteer board with two paid staff who run programs and accommodate rentals. Regular membership totals 500, of which 92% live in Tillsonburg and the balance comes from Ingersoll and other communities. The group reported that future membership is expected to remain stable, and the facilities they use at the Community Centre are well suited to their program/activity and event requirements. As a component of the larger complex, however, these facilities should be part of overall considerations related to updating/improving the design and function of interior spaces. Individual dedicated spaces (e.g., woodworking shop) could be repurposed if they are not well used. The Senior Centre could also be more strongly integrated with the larger complex, by providing programming specific to seniors in new shared space (e.g., seniors fitness in multi-purpose space) with needed dedicated spaces (e.g., social space, kitchen, games room, etc.) comprising the seniors’ building component.
F 8. Include the Tillsonburg Senior
Centre as part of planned integrated design and functional improvements to the Community Centre.
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