Wolfville Community Oven This grant is with the Town of Wolfville. It is a one-time funding opportunities grant. It does mention in it that it it is for a festival or event. But I think ours would count as an event as the plan is to host events at the oven. This grant can be worth 500-5000$. Some of the information needed that I did not have is: ❏ General organization information ❏ A proposed budget for the upcoming year ❏ Year-end financial statement from the previous year or business plan ❏ a report outlining the activities of the previous year’s festival or event with a breakdown of This grant would be used once the oven is built in order to have a budget for hosting community events. Other Community Ovens This section of the report provides an overview of outdoor community ovens in other communities, primarily those in Southern Ontario, and analyzes success rates, impact on communities, major problems experienced, and operational structures. Specific research went into how the community ovens operated financially and their impact on the community, including the frequency of use, acceptance by the community, and community programming. ❏ Most ovens were facilitated by a small number of paid staff as most communities commented that the time requirements and responsibility were too much to be justified as unpaid positions and, therefore, staff were hired to diminish the responsibility of the volunteers.8 ❏ Some community ovens used fundraisers, primarily bake sales, to generate funds for ingredients for free community pizza nights.9 ❏ Collaboration with local farmers’ markets was perceived as a successful and beneficial partnership by many community oven groups. The community oven groups that did not have a community garden affiliated with the oven often sourced their food materials from the local farmers’ market. Riverdale Park Community Oven in Toronto was also noted as unsuccessful partly for not operating when the farmer’s market was open.10 ❏ All community ovens had some form of nearby indoor facility in which to store ingredients, prepare dough, and for clean-up. The Regent Park community oven had this facility at a distance noted this as a problem and hindrance to programming.11 ❏ The most successful ovens were the ones in which there was an interactive, educational element in which community members could play an active role in the use of the oven, and the oven was openly advertised to community members. Riverdale Park community oven group failed to adequately advertise their oven and 8 The Community Bake Oven Handbook | The Working Centre. (n.d.). Retrieved April 16, 2018, Retrieved from https://www.theworkingcentre.org/community-bake-oven/2651-community-bake-oven-andbook 9Public Bakeovens. (2015). Dufferin Grove Park Oven's History. Retrieved from http://www.publicbakeovens.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=DufferinGrovePark.History 10 Public Bakeovens. (2015). Riverdale Riverdale Park (Park Oven). Retrieved from http://www.publicbakeovens.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=RiverdalePark.FrontPage 11 Public Bakeovens. (2018). Regen Park Oven. Retrieved from http://www.publicbakeovens.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=RegentParkOven.FrontPage 8 41
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