Penticton is a welcoming community with many opportunities for social and business networking. Here are some to get started
Find Your People
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- South Okanagan Immigrant & Community Services: provide a range of free services to immigrants, temporary foreign workers, post-secondary international students and refugees, including your job search and language training
- South Okanagan Similkameen Volunteer Centre: Make an impact in your community! Browse their volunteer opportunities
- 100 Women Who Care & 100 Men Who Care (networking & charitable giving)
- Penticton & Wine Country Chamber of Commerce
- Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen: builds entrepreneurial capacity in the community through business loans, support and advisory services
- Two Rotary clubs: Penticton Okanagan Rotary and the Rotary Club of Penticton
- Penticton Women in Business
- Junior Chamber International for young professionals (JCI Penticton)
- Accelerate Okanagan: mentorship and coaching for tech and high growth companies
- Cowork Penticton coworking office space
- Penticton meetup groups
- Penticton and Area Cycling Association: a community for cycling enthusiasts of all kinds
- Penticton Newcomers Club
- Foundry Penticton: youth resource and gathering centre for ages 12-24
- Seniors Drop-in Centre
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Interested in volunteering? Or do you want to provide feedback that will help shape our community? Visit our Get Involved webpage for details.Â
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Accelerate Okanagan
Accelerate Okanagan helps develop and support creative entrepreneurs in the technology community. Based in Kelowna, they are a hub of like-minded, ambitious individuals who seek collaboration through coaching, connections, info sessions and a shared workspace.
Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen
Community Futures offers assistance and a variety of services and tools to help entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their goals, including business support services, business planning advice, loans and self-employment assistance.
Downtown Penticton Business Improvement Association
The DPBIAÂ champions business prosperity through dynamic placemaking, advocacy for business owners, and cultivating stakeholder relationships.
Interior Health
Interior Health is responsible for regulating and monitoring many public facilities and those aspects of the environment that have a direct impact on public health. If you're looking to open a business that serves food or drink, cares for children or the elderly, or is involved with personal care such as tanning, tattooing, or hair, you will need to speak with someone at Interior Health.
Naramata Bench Winery Association
The NBWAÂ represents more than twenty award-winning wineries overlooking Okanagan Lake. Member wineries share marketing costs and benefit from being associated with a positive, established brand that lends their business an immediate level of consumer confidence and recognition.
Okanagan Falls Winery Association
The OFW Association offers the same benefits as the NBWA to another group of premiere wineries just south of Penticton.
Penticton & Wine Country Chamber of CommerceÂ
The Penticton Chamber of Commerce is a not for profit, member-based association. Members benefit from networking as well as subsidized products and services (insurance, software, office supplies, gas, advertisements, etc.).
Penticton Industrial Development Association
PIDA represents the interests of industrial businesses in Penticton. They are a sounding board for business owners to address issues and concerns, and they advocate to the City of Penticton to improve the economic climate.Â
Start Here PentictonÂ
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Small Business BC
Small Business BC is British Columbia’s premier resource centre for knowledge-based business development. They have been recognized by several national and international awards.
South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services (SOICS)
SOICS is a one-stop-shop that works together with immigrants to help them get settled, find careers and learn all they need to know about starting their new lives in Canada—including business services and information about foreign direct investment.
Travel PentictonÂ
Travel Penticton markets our city and operates the Visitor Centre, open to tourists and locals alike. They also promote your event, accommodation or experiential travel business, while attracting major sporting events.
Women’s Enterprise Centre (WeBC)
WeBC helps women entrepreneurs to start, purchase or grow a small business. They provide training, business advice, resources and referrals to other services using a supportive, individual and practical approach.
WorkBC
WorkBC Employment Services Centres serve local businesses by providing key labour force information and recruitment services, including free job postings for employers. Our local WorkBC Centre is found at 50 Calgary Avenue, Penticton
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Accelerate Okanagan
Accelerate Okanagan helps develop and support creative entrepreneurs in the technology community. Based in Kelowna, they are a hub of like-minded, ambitious individuals who seek collaboration through coaching, connections, info sessions and a shared workspace.
BC Beverage Technology Access Centre
Okanagan College’s BC BTAC supports the Canadian beverage industry’s innovation and growth by providing a comprehensive range of expert analytical, commercial and sensory services and resources. We work with individuals, companies and organizations within a collaborative framework to exchange knowledge, ideas and resources leading to real-world solutions for the development of domestic beverages, including fermented, brewed, distilled and non-alcoholic products.
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Provides safety training and advisory services for manufacturers, food processors, wineries, breweries and distilleries.
Naramata Bench Winery Association
The NBWAÂ represents more than twenty award-winning wineries overlooking Okanagan Lake. Member wineries share marketing costs and benefit from being associated with a positive, established brand that lends their business an immediate level of consumer confidence and recognition.
Okanagan Falls Winery Association
The OFW Association offers the same benefits as the NBWA to another group of premiere wineries just south of Penticton.
Penticton Industrial Development Association
PIDA represents the interests of industrial businesses in Penticton. They are a sounding board for business owners to address issues and concerns, and they advocate to the City of Penticton to improve the economic climate.Â
Small Scale Food Processor Association
The Small Scale Food Processor Association is a national not-for-profit trade organization of processors, growers, and suppliers of food and agricultural products. We help members expand their businesses and grow their local economies through providing leadership, education, marketing, networking, and advocacy.