Riverside Local Love is back October 6th! Here’s How it Works

Do you love supporting local businesses? Riverside Local Love is back starting October 6th until November 6th, 2025!

Riverside Local Love invites everyone to shop, dine and use local services and submit their proof of payment or leave a Google Review to enter our raffle for fabulous local prizes!

 

First piloted earlier this year, the Riverside BIA created the Riverside Local Love campaign to highlight and support the many amazing small businesses in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood.

If you were able to participate in the raffle last January/Febraury, then you know how simple and easy it is to enter! For those of you who are new to Riverside Local Love, here’s a quick rundown of the campaign:

HOW DO I ENTER?

  1. Shop, dine, use services or leave a Google Review for a Riverside BIA business
  2. Enter our raffle up to once a day during Oct 6-Nov 6 (link to go live via Riverside Local Love on Oct 6th!)
  3. Riverside BIA will contact you by email if you’re a weekly or grant prize winner and you get to pick your gift card from our list of local businesses!

WHAT CAN I WIN?

Weekly Prizes

  • A $250 gift card to a local independent business of choice from our list x three (3) lucky winners per week! (Gotta LOVE the odds!)

Grand Prizes

  • A $500 gift card for two (2) lucky winners to a local independent business of choice from our list!

WHERE IS THE RIVERSIDE BIA?

The Riverside BIA covers Toronto’s Queen St E between Davies and Empire Ave + East Don Roadway and Baseball Place  -there are over 100+ local businesses in our area, You’ll find a more detailed map over on the Riverside Local Love event page. You can also check out the Business Directory for the full list of businesses in the Riverside BIA. 

Photo credit: Tabule Middle Eastern Cuisine

To view the full contest rules and important raffle information about Riverside Local Love (and the submission link for the raffle), click HERE!

Follow @riverside_bia on Instagram for regular updates on Riverside Local Love!

Thank you to the City of Toronto and Government of Canada’s Transit Construction Mitigation Fund for support of Riverside Local Love as part of the ‘Riverside Ramps It Up’ project.

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