The Age-Friendly Business Guide and Award Program promotes increased awareness of the County’s aging population and helps businesses and organizations to evaluate their business environment and service delivery to older adults.
2024 Age-Friendly Business/Organization Guide and Award Program
The 2024 Age-Friendly Business Recognition Award Program has been extended to December 31, 2024!
New this year! Your valuable customers and clients can nominate your business for an Age-Friendly Business Recognition Award.
The Age-Friendly Business and Organization Awards Program instruction brochure helps business owners assess if their business is designed to serve everyone. An Age-Friendly business/organization is people-friendly— appealing to all ages and abilities. As an integral part of the community, businesses/ organizations can be key to making a community more livable and engaged.
This program provides guidance, resources and tools to enable business owners to identify, promote and be recognized for implementing age-friendly practices. As our population ages, it makes viable business sense to adapt to meet the changing needs of communities as it represents a major trend for investment and spending.
The program wishes to acknowledge those who are working towards implementing Age-Friendly practices and who have demonstrated a willingness to continually maintain and improve by instituting and promoting best practices for serving individuals of all ages and abilities.
If you are currently implementing age-friendly business practices or are in the planning stages of helping to make your business become more age-friendly, we want to hear about it. If you have implemented new age-friendly practices since a previous Age-Friendly Business Recognition Award, we want to hear from you too!
Age-Friendly Business Recognition Application
Age-Friendly Business Recognition Award winners will receive a one-time complimentary digital marketing package valued at over $350 (conditions apply), a certificate, decal for their window, along with being recognized through a County press release, social media and on the County website.
Complete an Age-friendly Business Recognition Application Form today!
Age-Friendly Business Recognition Nomination
Qualify for an additional Digital Marketing Package valued at over $350 (conditions apply)! Nominated businesses are encouraged to complete the full Business Recognition Checklist and Application to qualify for this additional package!
Businesses nominated that meet the Age-Friendly criteria on the Nomination Form will receive a certificate, decal for their window, along with being recognized through a County press release, social media and on the County website.
Customers / Clients – Complete an Age-Friendly Business Nomination Form today!
Questions? Tracy Hill at 705-726-9300 ext. 3127
An Awards Ceremony will be held in early 2025. Watch this page for more information coming soon!
2023 Age-Friendly Business Recognition Awards Recipients
In January 2024 the County of Simcoe celebrated the contributions of businesses and individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to creating age-friendly communities during the inaugural County of Simcoe Age-Friendly Recognition Awards ceremony.
Businesses honoured included Sandycove Drug Store (Innisfil), Seniors at Play (Orillia), Right at Home Canada (Collingwood), Hunt Family Movers (Innisfil), Hearing Life (Bradford West Gwillimbury), and Focus Employment Services (New Tecumseth). They were each recognized for the progress they’ve made to improve services for seniors within Simcoe County.