Community Futures Ventures

10/13/2026

Flexible, Affordable Loans for Your Business!

Community Futures offers loans tailored for start-ups, expansions, or buying a business in a rural community. Decisions are made locally, so your business gets the support it needs.

Loan Guidelines:
🟢 Up to $150,000 per business
🟢 Fixed interest rate & amortization set at application
🟢 No repayment penalties

Resources Available Online:
🟢 Loan Application
🟢 Business Plan Guide
🟢 Cash Flow Worksheet

Get started today: www.cfsask.ca/ventures
Your rural business deserves support—let’s make it happen!

10/12/2026

A great time to give thanks for our loved ones, for health, our community, and for the great opportunities that are yet to unfold for you.

Have a happy Thanksgiving from Community Futures Ventures!

Our office is closed today.

10/08/2026

✨ Meet Side Hustle Graduate Courtney Carroll! ✨

Courtney, from Theodore, SK has completed the Ventures Community Futures Side Hustle Program and is bringing a little more sparkle into the world with Dancing Lights Studio. ☀️🌈

Courtney creates handmade suncatchers and keychains, with plans to expand into whimsical earrings and other fun accessories.

We love seeing entrepreneurs take an idea, explore their creativity and turn it into something of their own.

🎉 Congratulations, Courtney, on completing the Side Hustle Program! We can’t wait to see what’s next for Dancing Lights Studio.

10/05/2026

Meet Sandra Binkley and 360 FOCUS Fitness, Recovery & Wellness!

Sandra has officially completed the Community Futures Ventures Side Hustle Program, and we’re excited to introduce the business she’s bringing to Kamsack — 360 FOCUS Fitness • Recovery • Wellness.

Sandra came into the program with a vision to create something different: a fitness and wellness space built around privacy, choice, community and rural access. Her concept includes individually bookable fitness spaces as well as a group studio where local and regional coaches, instructors and wellness professionals can offer classes, workshops and programs.

And now that vision is becoming a reality at 242 Third Avenue in Kamsack!

The FOCUS Studio is being designed as a welcoming space for everything from movement and fitness to active aging, balance, mobility, rebound, spin, wellness workshops and more.

Sandra is also looking for certified coaches and instructors interested in bringing their own classes and ideas to the studio.
📧 Interested in being part of FOCUS Studio? Email [email protected]

Congratulations, Sandra! We can’t wait to watch 360 FOCUS take shape and see what it brings to Kamsack and the surrounding area.

10/02/2026

Ready to grow your business skills — for FREE?
We’re hosting three upcoming webinars designed to help local entrepreneurs and small business owners learn, connect, and thrive!

📅 Save your spot today at https://cfsask.ca/training-and-events

10/01/2026

Flexible, Affordable Loans for Your Business!

Community Futures offers loans tailored for start-ups, expansions, or buying a business in a rural community. Decisions are made locally, so your business gets the support it needs.

Loan Guidelines:
🟢 Up to $150,000 per business
🟢 Fixed interest rate & amortization set at application
🟢 No repayment penalties

Resources Available Online:
🟢 Loan Application
🟢 Business Plan Guide
🟢 Cash Flow Worksheet

📌 Get started today: www.cfsask.ca/ventures
Your rural business deserves support—let’s make it happen! 🚀

09/30/2026

🧡 Today, Ventures Community Futures recognizes National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

We honour the children who never returned home, the Survivors of residential schools, their families, and the generations who continue to carry the impacts.

Truth and reconciliation is more than one day. It means taking the time to listen, learn, reflect, and better understand the history and experiences of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Today, we encourage our communities to make space for reflection, meaningful conversations, and continued learning.

Every Child Matters. 🧡

09/29/2026

Do you remember Lucy from the EDP- Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Program - Community Futures Just Watch Me Video Contest?

More than eight years ago, Lucy Sloan won the Just Watch Me! video contest — and this November, she’s coming to Moosomin to share her story in person at the first-ever Two Provinces, One Vision summit!

Lucy is the Founder & Director of Lil’ Steps Wellness & Lil’ Steps Wellness Foundation and has built an incredible journey from an entrepreneurial idea into work supporting children, youth and families.

🎥 Watch Lucy’s original Just Watch Me! video below — then come hear what’s happened since.

📅 November 1–2, 2026 | Moosomin, SK
🎟️ Tickets & details: twoprovincesonevision.eventbrite.ca

Six Community Futures offices. Two provinces. One vision.

Get to know Lucy Fouasse, owner of Lil' Steps Miniatures & Wellness...

09/28/2026

🌟 Small Business Tip of the Week! 🌟

➡️Understand Your Cash Flow:
Knowing what’s coming in and what’s going out is one of the strongest tools you have.

09/25/2026

🌟 Small Business Tip of the Week! 🌟

➡️Leverage Local Grants & Programs: Grants, programs, and resources designed to help small businesses like yours.

🔗 https://www.rickhansen.com/BarrierBuster
🔗 https://www.spra.sk.ca/funding/spra-grants/
🔗 https://www.saskculture.ca/programs/our-grants
🔗 https://suma.org/resources/grants