Central Eglinton Community Centre

Domain inferred from a board contact email on a city decisionBody document; site itself not fetched this review, so left unverified pending direct confirmation

Completeness

• Document shelf: 20 rows (20 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
• Backgrounder: on file
• Strategy-evolution brief: not written yet
• Custody audit: 20 of 20 row(s) audited, 19 flagged
• Last verified: 2026-08-06 · this org has had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)

Endpoints

• Website
• Open data: not yet verified
• API: not yet verified
• RSS: not yet verified
• Newsroom: not yet verified
• FOI / access requests: not yet verified

Document shelf (20 rows)

Backgrounder

Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.

Central Eglinton Community Centre - backgrounder

Backgrounder / GOV-Q10-WAVE1-d1 / 2026-08-04 / registry row: tor-central-eglinton-community-centre (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

Central Eglinton Community Centre is one of ten member centres of the City of Toronto's Association of Community Centres (AOCC) - City-owned or City-affiliated facilities governed by independent volunteer Boards of Management operating under the City of Toronto Act, 2006, the former City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 25, and a Council-approved Relationship Framework that defines the City-Board relationship (https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/get-involved/get-involved-my-community/association-of-community-centres/, fetched this review). The Centre's own site records that a 2006 governance review produced its current written relationship framework with the City "under the new City of Toronto Act" (https://yongeeglintoncc.com/about/history/, fetched this review).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

Delivers neighbourhood programming from 160 Eglinton Avenue East: EarlyON family resources for ages 0-6, after-school programs and camps for children, programming for older adults (50+), newcomer settlement and integration services, an income-tax clinic, and room rentals (https://yongeeglintoncc.com/, fetched this review). Citywide, AOCC centres split funding by function: "the core administrative activities of the community centres are funded by the City while the program component is funded through fees, donations and grants" (toronto.ca AOCC page, fetched this review).

Governance & reporting line

Governed by an independent, volunteer Board of Management; the Centre's site maintains a public "Board Agenda & Dates" page (https://yongeeglintoncc.com/about/board-agenda-and-dates/) but does not itself publish current board composition. Under the citywide AOCC governance model, boards are composed of appointed public members (a majority of whom must reside in the centre's catchment area) together with the local City Councillor by right of office (toronto.ca AOCC page, fetched this review). ⚠️ still being checked - the exact current board seat count and City funding share specific to this centre are not published on the org's own site this review.

Budget scale

The Centre files audited financial statements annually with the City's Audit Committee (registry doc shelf, registry id tor-central-eglinton-community-centre); e.g. its 2022 statements were reported via Audit Committee clause 2023.AU2.12 (https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/au/bgrd/backgroundfile-237729.pdf). However, the most recently registered filing - the 2024 Audited Financial Statements report (https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/au/bgrd/backgroundfile-256790.pdf, fetched and parsed this review) - is the Auditor General's four-page cover report only; the per-centre financial-statement attachment (Attachment 4, "Central Eglinton Community Centre") that would carry specific revenue/expense figures is not separately captured as its own URL in the registry. ⚠️ still being checked specific dollar figures for this centre - not confirmed this review.

Institutional history

Founded in 1976, originally known as "The Third Floor," established by community residents and groups on the third floor of the old Eglinton Public School; the City's Neighbourhoods Committee and City Council subsequently designated it the official community centre for the area (https://yongeeglintoncc.com/about/history/, fetched this review). It relocated to its current permanent home at 160 Eglinton Avenue East in December 1992 and added second-floor office space in 1999 (same source). The organization's public-facing site now operates under the rebrand "Yonge Eglinton Community Centre" - centraleglinton.com redirects to yongeeglintoncc.com (fetch-verified this review) - though the registry's org name remains "Central Eglinton Community Centre."

Strategy evolution brief

No strategy evolution brief written for this org yet.