Bring out your pumpkins, and light up Sandown Park. We request that you keep yourselves appropriately distanced when viewing the pumpkins.
This year we will be doing a random draw for prize packs. It’s open to anyone who drops off a pumpkin at our parade! See a member of the SBCA to learn how to enter!
Why do we host a Pumpkin Parade? It’s a chance for us to meet the community in a community-built event. It’s about sharing and admiring people’s creations, seeing kids play with new and old friends and sometimes we’re lucky enough to see a second go-round of costumes! The founder of Toronto’s Pumpkin Parade feels the same way. See her interview here.
Join us for our Fourth Annual Front Garden Contest
The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association has partnered with the Birchcliff Garden Club again this year to bring the community “Bluffscapes” – a “Fun and Friendly” Garden Contest. Open to all residents of Birchcliff, Cliffside and Cliffcrest, the Bluffscapes Residential Front Garden Contest showcases beautiful front gardens that are visible from the road.
This is a wonderful opportunity to share your gardening enthusiasm with our Southwest Scarborough community. By doing so, we encourage others to beautify their own little piece of our neighbourhood.
Your garden could be simply green or a plethora of magical colours! You don’t need to be an expert to enter – all levels of experience are welcomed!
Gardens will be evaluated on Visual Appeal, Overall Design and Originality. No professionally installed gardens allowed. Homeowners are encouraged to clean up, design, and plant their gardens themselves.
This year we again feature our NEW category: Pollinator Gardens
Judging will be held in early August.
If your garden is dedicated to helping the pollinators please submit under this category.
Vegetable gardens are excluded from this contest.
Judges consist of Birchcliff Garden Club members and Board member of the Scarborough Bluffs Community Association. Judging will take place at the beginning of August with a winner declared by August 20th.
Join us again for Bluffscapes Garden Contest. Open to any resident of Birch Cliff, Cliffside or Cliffcrest who have visible roadsidefront gardens and pollinator gardens. Deadline to submit – July 31st, 2022
For full contest details and to register, click here.
We are currently seeking vendors who are local to Scarborough Southwest for our 2nd Annual Scarborough Arts, Trades and Family Festival, being held on Saturday Sept 10th, 2022 in partnership with Scarborough Arts and Birchmount Community Centre.
If you’re interested in becoming a vendor at the event, please complete this form at the link below. This is to gauge interest. Payment is not due at this time and we will confirm details by June 30th, 2022.
The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association’s Board of Directors invite you and/or your representative to join us for our 2022 Annual General Meeting on March 24th, 2022 at 6:30pm.
We will introduce our new 2022 Board, share our successes from 2021, and showcase our schedule of events for 2022.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Share in this opportunity to get to know us along with fellow community members and volunteers. Even if you don’t participate as a Board Member, there is always room for volunteers and sub-committee participants. It looks as though we’ll be able to plan for some in-person events this year and we could use extra hands.
This year when we were planning Fire & Ice for Family Day, Omicron closed everything down. We weren’t sure if we’d be able to book permits and decided to revisit out Family Day Hike and Scavenger hunt as a way to explore our community, and spend time with your family!
We have a number of beautiful areas to hike in and hopefully you’ll find something new!
Some hikes are easy and accessible, others are a bit more challenging. You may chose to enter the scavenger hunt as well. We’ll have a random draw for prizes for those that send in photos/videos.
Scavenger Hunt and Hike rules
Choose a hike (all will be found within Birch Cliff, Cliffside or Cliffcrest)
Explore at your own convenience – it doesn’t have to be Family Day itself
Be careful as some trails and pathways may be slippery, muddy or steep
Please only stick to the path and obey all signs
Send your photos at events@sbca.ca by the end of day Feb 22 to be entered in our random draw (prizes to be announced soon)
Take photos of interesting things and have fun!
BONUS – if you have one of our toques, caps or hoodies – make sure you wear your swag!
To be considered for an entry in our draw, we can only accept email submissions. We may post submissions under a #SBCAFamilyDay2022 post on Instagram or Facebook.
The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association (SBCA) has recently entered its 5th year. With help from you – our community, partners and sponsors, we have had tremendous success with our vision: By the community, for the community, for a stronger community.
With this new year, we have some significant changes in our Board Executive. Hector Catre, Co-founder and Chair has retired from his position.While you may still see him occasionally volunteering at SBCA events, his day-to-day involvement with the SBCA has ended. We would like to thank Hector for his dedication, leadership, hard work, and guidance on engaging our community to come together in unity.
The SBCA is thrilled to welcome Julie Torani as our new Chair of our Board! Julie has been with the SBCA since 2019, and brings with her a passion for community building and engagement.
Looking Forward
The SBCA is currently recruiting dedicated, creative, and enthusiastic community members to be a part of our Board for 2022. We are a fresh and dynamic group of like-minded community members, with a passion for event planning, building community, and enhancing the neighbourhoods of Birchcliff, Cliffside and Cliffcrest in the Scarborough Bluffs.
This year we are looking for 2-3 people with a “can do” attitude, strong communication skills, ability to problem solve, and a fun-loving spirit to join our Board. Time commitment for Board Members is between 5-10 hours per month.
Please note that you will be expected to participate in and/or lead community events. We invite people from all backgrounds to send us an email, along with their resume or a letter with related skills defined, expressing interest for joining the Board at: join.us@sbca.ca
If you’re not interested in joining the Board, we’re always looking for volunteers. We are currently planning 2022 events, and will be hosting our AGM next month (stay tuned).
Donate before Nov 24th, and get some awesome community gear!
We are running our swag fundraiser again – and due to overwhelming demand – we’re offering toques and hoodies as a thank you for minimum amount donations!
This is a great way to support your community association and show your communitypride!
Due to production costs, we can only offer hoodies to those that donate before Nov 24.
Hoodies are sized as follows:
Adultunisex
Youth
Last year, our toques were gone in a week, so this is the best way to ensure you get yours! Toques will be available until they’re sold out.
Fill out the Google Formfor instructions on how to make a donation and request your swag! Any questions, please contact us!
FAQ
Hoodies are screen printed.
Sweatshirt details: Gildan Heavyweight Sweatshirt. Made with 50% Cotton / 50% Polyester, this custom hooded sweatshirt features a double-lined hood for comfort. A pouch pocket is perfect for warming up cold hands.
Toques are embroidered.
Toque details: The Sportsman Knit Toque is made of 100% acrylic.
We can offer pickup or delivery within the Birch Cliff/Cliffside/Cliffcrest areas.
Items will take approx. 10-12 days after we close off the hoodie ordering – we will reach out to everyone once the toques and hoodies have arrived.
We are allowed to host our annual event in person this year! Bring out your pumpkins, and light up Sandown Park. We request that you keep yourselves appropriately distanced when viewing the pumpkins.
This year we will be doing a random draw for one of these prize packs. It’s open to anyone who drops off a pumpkin at our parade! See a member of the SBCA to learn how to enter!
We will also be featuring Hallowe’en short films (only if the weather holds)
Why do we host a Pumpkin Parade? It’s a chance for us to meet the community in a community-built event. It’s about sharing and admiring people’s creations, seeing kids play with new and old friends and sometimes we’re lucky enough to see a second go-round of costumes! The founder of Toronto’s Pumpkin Parade feels the same way. See her interview here.
The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association has partnered with the Birchcliff Garden Club again this year to bring the community “Bluffscapes” – a “Fun and Friendly” Garden Contest. Open to all residents of Birchcliff, Cliffside and Cliffcrest, the Bluffscapes Residential Front Garden Contest showcases beautiful front gardens that are visible from the road.
This is a wonderful opportunity to share your gardening enthusiasm with our Southwest Scarborough community. By doing so, we encourage others to beautify their own little piece of our neighbourhood.
Your garden could be simply green or a plethora of magical colours! You don’t need to be an expert to enter – all levels of experience are welcomed!
This year features NEW categories: Pollinator Gardens and Container Gardens
If your garden is dedicated to helping the pollinators please submit under this category. If you have small spaces and/or are balcony gardening and your gardens are not “roadside” visible – please submit under container gardening – we will ask that you provide photos of your containers closer to the judging date.
Vegetable gardens are excluded from this contest.
Judging will be held in early Septembter.
Judges consist of Birchcliff Garden Club members and Board member of the Scarborough Bluffs Community Association.
Join us again for Bluffscapes Garden Contest. Open to any resident of Birch Cliff, Cliffside or Cliffcrest who have visible roadsidefront gardens, pollinator gardens, or container gardens.Deadline to submit – August 10th, 2021
The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association’s Board of Directors invite you and/or your representative to join us for our 2021 Annual General Meeting.
We will introduce our 2021 Board, share our successes from 2020, and showcase our schedule of events for 2021.
We are also be accepting applications for 2 open Board positions and event committee volunteers. Time commitment varies during the year. If you are interested in joining us, please send a short CV of your community work, skills that you feel would be an asset to our Association and why you’d like to join!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Share in this opportunity to get to know us along with fellow community members and volunteers.
