The local residents formed an Association that organized events; raised funds for road maintenance and flood prevention; established a church, a school; operated a fire station as volunteers; and lobbied for municipal services such as electricity, garbage collection, and eventually sewage.

[3] In the 1930s, Stanley Mann, a real estate manager hired by Tuckett, helped the local residents form the Pickering Beach Community Association to address issues such as poor condition of roads and flooding.

The Association consulted with Tuckett, and came up with a plan to raise funds for improving the poor condition of the gravel roads leading to the Beach.

[4] The vendors at the Beach were now required to pay a license fee (up to a maximum of $15 per season); the collected amount would go towards the road maintenance.

It had a nominal membership fee ($1 for residents, 25 cents for visitors), which paid for police presence during the events organized at the beach, among other things.

It lobbied for lower electricity rates, and negotiated weekly garbage collection from the cottages for a fee of $3 per season.

The first home built for the purpose of a year round dwelling was the Corbet "Beach House" in 1951 located at the former 101 Orchard Drive.

The local taxpayers formed the Pickering Beach Ratepayers' Association, which lobbied for facilities such as street lights, fire station, and upgraded telephone and power lines.

The festival featured shortcakes and entertainment, and the proceeds were donated to charitable causes including the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital.

In 1949, he founded the Pickering Beach Mission, and donated a lot at the corner of Lakeview Boulevard and Cherry Street for building a church.

He started the construction of the Pickering Beach Community Church, with help and donations from other local residents, and from his friends based in Oshawa and Whitby.

The local Home and School Association raised the funds for equipment and other costs through bingo, euchre, plays and carnivals.

The women also helped raise funds for the costs not covered by the Township, by organizing bake sales, euchre nights, and dances held at the local school.

In 1989, the South East Pickering fire station shut down, and the town's Parks and Recreation Department started using its building as storage.

[2] Among notable Canadians who were born in, lived in, or visited the beach are grocery chain founder T. P. Loblaw, wrestler 'Whipper' Billy Watson, artist Florence Helena McGillivray, and pioneering woman school board trustee Alice Charlotte Corbet.