The Station Arts Centre is hosting a fundraising barbecue on Saturday, June 27, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the parking lot of Crompton Home Hardware Building Centre at 101 Tillson Ave in Tillsonburg, Ontario. Volunteer board members will serve hot dogs and hamburgers, with all proceeds going directly to the arts centre.
The event is part of a summer community barbecue series sponsored by the hardware store, which rotates through local non-profit groups each Saturday. Crompton Home Hardware covers all food and drink costs, allowing the hosting organization to keep every dollar raised. In 2022, the weekly barbecues brought in a total of $5,816 for various charities.
The Station Arts Centre operates as a registered charity under the Tillsonburg District Craft Guild and receives no municipal funding. It relies on grants, program revenues, donations, and fundraisers like this barbecue to sustain its galleries, gift shop, pottery studio, and community programs. The centre is housed in two historic train stations: the Great Western Railway Station built in 1879 and the Tillsonburg Lake Erie & Pacific C.P. Station from 1896, which was moved to the adjacent property in 1994.
The barbecue location is just one block from the arts centre’s main building at 41 Bridge St. W. Residents can stop by for a quick meal and support a local cultural hub that curator Tabitha Verbuyst has called “a very important cultural pillar to the community.”
