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North Simcoe CFDC is
your local centre
for business
coaching, leadership, innovation, loans, growth

We're Here to Help You Succeed

The North Simcoe CFDC offers business loans, tools, training and events to help you start or grow your business. Our services and strong community partnerships build and diversify our local economy.

Free Business Coaching

We’ll work with you to prepare your business plan and set you up for success.

Community Economic Development

Our team works to create and deliver the programs and services needed by entrepreneurs in North Simcoe.

Apply for Loans

We provide customized financing for business projects in the start-up, maintenance or expansion stage.

Our Services Impact Our Community

Here is how we have helped successfully impact businesses across North Simcoe over the last five years.

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Growing Your Business Is Our Business

The North Simcoe CFDC has supported the growth of local business for over 30 years. Our knowledgeable staff work with you to offer business loans, tools, training and events to help you start, expand, or sell a business. Since 1986, we have invested over $18.45 million to more than 438 local businesses, impacting over 2,450 jobs in our community. Each year, we meet with an average of 273 people like you to offer in-depth business coaching services, and we receive close to 800 business-related inquiries annually.

We look forward to meeting you.

Let's Work Together

Our proven experience and local knowledge will help you achieve your business goals.

Arthur Barrows

General Manager

Lois Irvine

Client Care Coordinator

Janet Metcalf

Office Assistant

Our Service Area

The North Simcoe CFDC provides business support to the Towns of Midland, Penetanguishene, Beausoleil First Nation (Christian Island), and the Townships of Springwater, Tiny, and Tay.

Located on the southern shores of beautiful Georgian Bay, about 90 miles north of Toronto, with easy access to major transportation routes, North Simcoe is loved by locals and treasured as a seasonal destination by others. The area has a strong, supportive, and skilled business sector that values local and lives the ideal work-life balance.

Map of North Simcoe CFDC catchment area

Latest News and Events for Small Businesses

My Main Street Applications Now Open

My Main Street applications are now open!

Applications are now open for My Main Street, a $15-million investment to support main street businesses and communities across southern Ontario. Funded by the Government of Canada, through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), My Main Street is being delivered through two new streams that open for applications on February 22, …

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