News and Updates

Blue Prints for Construction
Making Home Video

View a video of the Making Home construction at 97 Victoria St. N,

Our Annual Impact

156,000

Meals shared

54,600

Shelter nights

78,000

Visits to St. John's Kitchen

70,000

Used Goods Redistributed

In the Community

Work and Livelihood

Helping people find work, access benefits, and make ends meet

St John’s Kitchen and Outreach

Serving a daily meal embedded in a web of place-based and mobile supports

Housing and Shelter

Access to supportive and affordable housing and shelter

Community Tools and Enterprise

Community enterprise projects that support engagement and skill building

400

Volunteers engaged in the work

5,000

Job Searchers supported

2,500

People connected through Outreach supports

100

People housed in TWC Housing
A stack of Good Work News newspapers from The Working Centre, highlighting community stories and initiatives.

Good Work News

Good Work News is The Working Centre’s quarterly newspaper telling stories about community building. In our fourth decade we increasingly look at emergent ideas, how to see the wider wholeness of our interconnected world, and how to develop regenerative practices to respond to climate change. First published in 1984, we have 150 issues with a print circulation of 13,000 and a growing online version.

A stack of Good Work News newspapers from The Working Centre, highlighting community stories and initiatives.
A group of individuals gathered at the entrance of The Working Centre in Kitchener, Ontario.

About Us

The Working Centre is a mature community-based organization, creating access to tools for those without work, those without housing and the most vulnerable – a web of community building. We build dynamic spaces where community forms and people find places of belonging, practical supports and ways to contribute.