Building Our Future Together: The WRA’s 2026 Vision
In December 2025, the Woodstock Resident’s Association met for a 2-day Strategy Session to update and refresh the vision, goals, and workstreams of the WRA to work for a more effective community group. What was an engaging and fun series of sessions had us recalibrate our goals and gave us a chance to grow our work streams based on shared interests and suggestions.
What resulted was an organic and shared vision that left the committee and members feeling invested and motivated to really continue to make Woodstock a wonderful place to live! We are proud to share our updated and refreshed goals with you below. If you feel like you would like to be part of any of the initiatives, or simply join in on making a success of this fantastic place to live, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]!
Our Vision
Woodstock is a neighbourhood where people can stay, grow roots, and feel at home.
A place where:
- People live, grow roots, and feel secure.
- Streets welcome walkers, cyclists, children, elders, and wheelchair users.
- Green spaces are abundant and cared for. Housing is held as a common good.
- Community life is vibrant, shared, and deeply human.
Our Goals
- A trusted neighbourhood commons: People know WRA, communication is human and clear, and leadership is shared across the community.
- Public spaces that belong to everyone: Parks and streets are cared for, well used, and welcoming to families, elders, children, and newcomers.
- Everyday systems that work: People know where to report issues, problems are solved faster, and the pool serves as a true community anchor.
- A strong community voice in how Woodstock develops: Residents understand planning, respond together, and hold housing as a common good.
WRA WorkStreams
COMMUNITY
BUILDING
RECLAIMING
PUBLIC SPACES
INCLUSIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
SERVICE
DELIVERY
Strengthening connection, visibility, and representation across Woodstock
Strengthening belonging and shared stewardship of the places we move through
Building capacity of residents to participate meaningfully in planning, land use, and city systems
Supporting residents to navigate systems, strengthen street-level organising and everyday neighbourhood functioning
Ways To Get Involved
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Write & Share:
- Help shape the Comms Strategy
- Contribute to monthly blogs about Woodstock
- Help with the website
Connect Neighbours:
- Share/build community groups or Neighbourhood initiatives.
- Technical support or know-how to build the Woodstock Street Directory
- Support mapping partner organisations/businesses
Understand Our Parks:
Support mapping parks and champions
Create a living map of condition, use, and care, including: what’s there, what’s missing, what’s possible
Grow Local Stewards:
Join park champions group in your area
Support those developing a simple stewardship playbook
Act Together:
Connect Trafalgar clean-ups and other Woodstock Park events (including guerrilla gardening!)
Help us design a workflow for trees & planting
GREEN PUBLIC SPACES
INCLUSIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Respond When It Matters:
Join Rapid Response Group that notices and responds to planning applications
We are looking for lawyers/architects and other urban development experts
Learn Together:
Help organise, host, or attend events to share info about zoning, heritage, and objections work
You dont have to be an expert!
Make It Understandable:
- Write, edit, design, or help translate e.g. Zoning & Heritage Guides and Housing Explainer with CGH
Connect the Neighbourhood:
Help us make it easier to find help, skills, and local support – Woodstock Directory of services & businesses
Make Systems Usable:
Help us design/distribute reporting Posters
Care for Shared Needs:
Support Reopen Our Pools Campaign
Homelessness Liaison (ongoing)
Link residents, the City, and support networks
SERVICE DELIVERY
Remember, for all the areas above, you can also support by:
- Joining for one task
- Helping for one month
- Offer a single skill
- Or support the anchors