Tiny Cottager Challenge Cup Re-launch Announcement!
A Friendly Competition in Support of Local Charitable Organizations
We were delighted to be joined at our Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 21, 2025 by Jen Russell and Robyn Kaczanowski of the Georgian Bay General Hospital Foundation, who shared an interesting and informative presentation on exciting new health care developments at the Georgian Bay General Hospital in Midland, and the GBGH Foundation’s current fundraising initiatives. For more information about the GBGH Foundation and its important work, please visit the Foundation’s website at: https:/gbghf.ca
Given that the GBGH Foundation – with the great work it does to benefit our community – is a prime example of the kind of worthwhile local charitable organization which has been the focus of the Tiny Cottager Challenge Cup competition in past years, it was especially appropriate for Jen and Robyn to be at this year’s FoTTSA AGM for the official 2025 re-launch announcement of the Tiny Cottager Challenge Cup: a friendly competition between FoTTSA member associations to promote and recognize the shoreline community’s support of local charitable organizations.
As in previous years, the competition ground rules are simple and straightforward: FoTTSA member associations are asked to request their own members to report to their own association executive the dollar amount and name of charity for their charitable donations to local charitable organizations such as the GBGH Foundation in the 2025 calendar year. In early October (just before Thanksgiving) each FoTTSA member association reports its total tally (without the names of individual contributors) of 2025 charitable donations by its members, broken down by dollars donated to particular local charitable organizations, to: secretary.fottsa@gmail.com
For purposes of awarding the Challenge Cup each year, “winners” will be announced in three categories:
- small (under 50 member households) association with the highest per-household charitable donations amount;
- large (50 member households and over) association with the highest per-household charitable donations amount;
- the association with the highest over-all tally of charitable donations by its members.
In the past, individual associations have come up with fun social events and activities to promote fundraising and encourage donations towards the association’s Challenge Cup tally. The possibilities are as unlimited as your creativity!
Let’s make 2025 the most successful Tiny Cottager Challenge Cup competition ever: we all win when we work together to support the worthwhile local charitable organizations which benefit our community!
Sincerely,
FoTTSA Board of Directors