Neighbourhood Small Grants - Campbell River Community Foundation

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NSG FALL APPLICATIONS

SEP 15 to OCT 31, 2026

Share Your Gifts & Passions:

Lead a workshop, teach a craft, pass on a skill. Plan a knowledge workshop to teach gardening, cooking, knitting, language, art or music. Host a wellness workshop with speakers or activities like yoga, journaling or mindfulness sessions or any skill you want to share. The opportunities are endless!

Strengthen Community Connections:

Build local resilience through shared experiences and learning more about each other. Neighbourhood potluck picnics, community work parties, invasive species removal days, youth and elder mentoring circles. When neighbours connect, magic happens! Friendships flourish, communities grow stronger, and neighborhoods become safer, more vibrant, and more welcoming for everyone.

Celebrate Who We Are:

Bring people together to celebrate the creativity, diversity, and spirit of Campbell River. Through cultural celebrations, storytelling circles, book-sharing groups, and language workshops, we create opportunities to connect, learn, and belong. Celebrating who we are, together. Everyone is welcome!

ALL IDEAS ARE GREAT IDEAS!

A Neighbourhood Small Grant of $50 to $500 can help you bring your idea to life!

For more information or help with your application or project idea please contact us at:

info@crfoundation.ca or (250) 201-3757

Applications can be submitted at neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca

Neighbourhood Small Grant Projects

$500 – Cornelia Ritchie: Caring Together: A Community Workshop for Dementia Caregivers
$350 – Jeannie Applin: Neighbourhood Summer BBQ
$500 – Stephanie Olson: Love our Planters
$500 – Julian Clarke: Shawn’s Instrumental Music
$500 – Steven Hoedel: Willow Point Block Party
$500 – Kristie Schwanicke: Kicking It Old School
$500 – Sara Neilson: CRASH NightReach: Community Care on the Street
$500 – Sieglinde Bentham: Spring at the Pond
$500 – Erika Anderson: Basic AI for Seniors
$400 – Esther Kabugho: Vegetable Growing in the Backyard
$500 – Sue-Ellen McDonald: Summit Bat Box Project
$500 – Apsana Kafle: Connecting with Indigenous Stories & Newcomers
$500 – Jesse Herbach: Cloudburst Creativity
$500 – Danny Desrosiers: Wimbledon Cup Street Hockey

$430 – Erika Anderson: Basic AI for Seniors
$500 – Anne-Marie Long: Fieramente Choir Concert
$500 – Karina Pennock: Heart & Scraps Storybook
$500 – Ann Vansnick: Family Christmas Outing 2025
$500 – Donna Beaulieu: Land Based Learning on the Coast
$500 – Tobyn Pearson: Hope Through Mentoring – Magic & Juggling
$500 – Kayley Clark: Easter Together
$500 – Janet Anderson: Cooking Classes
$500 – Kelsey Creviston: Gift Bags – Everyone Deserves a Smile – Southgate Middle School
$500 – Sara Neilson: Community Care on the Street
$500 – Shannon Williams – Gift Bags – Everyone Deserves a Smile – Timberline Secondary School
$500 – Lucilla Girotto – Stress Reduction – Finding Balance and Art Activity
$500 – Adele Clay – Caring & Advocating for the Seniors in Our Community

$500 – Kayley Clark: Sayward Summer Nights
$465 – Lucilla Girotto: Ocean Serenity: A Watercolour Journey to Stress Relief
$500 – Elizabeth Jacques: Gender Affirming Photo Booth & Children’s Art Table at the NI Pride Festival
$500 – Laurel Sliskovic: Campbell River Reading Circle
$500 – Jean Applin: Neighbourhood Summer BBQ
$500 – Judith Perron: Free Little Art Gallery
$500 – Brian Temple: Campfire Guitar Lessons
$500 – Ann Vansnick: Wrestle Sayward Style
$500 – Stephanie Olson: Love our Planters

$500 – Graeme Smith: Neighbourhood Get Together
$500 – Kayley Clark: Dessert Day
$500 – Tim Pennock: Forever Camping
$500 – Ann Vansnick: Let’s Paint and One on One Paint Time!
$500 – Karina Garibay Garcia: My Emotional Landscapes
$500 – Sole McDougall: Ocean Grove Christmas Festival
$500 – Donna Beaulieu: Rain Upon Our Leaves
$500 – Terri-Lynne Fillion: Seaview Village Community Garden
$500 – Yuma Bailey: Portraits for Empowerment
$400 – Sue McDonald: Summit Bird and Bat Box Program
$500 – Kristie Schwanicke: Breaking Bread Dinner at Q’Waxsem Place
$500 – Katherine Rankin: Fibre Arts at the Library
$500 – Jana Modras: Cormorant BBQ
$500 – Exekiel Mithaunril – LGBTQ Learn to Knit
$500 – Ann Vansnick – Budding Artist Paint Day

$500 – Jayne White: Summit Seed Library
$500 – Nancy Welsh: Learn to Draw
$500 – Rockford Royko: Community Coffee House
$500 – Sandra Weames: Community Inclusion
$500 – Sheila Hollanders: Surge Narrows Community Lunch
$500 – Soledad MacDougall: Ocean Grove School Halloween Breakfast
$500 – Heather Robb: Carlyle Crescent Seed Libary
$500 – Fern Peterson: Seed Library
$500 – Kris Wellstein: Rainwater Harvesting Workshop
$500 – Sue Moen: Neighbourhood Intergenerational Get Together
$500 – Carla Duffey: MMIWC2S Awareness
$500 – Janice Gladish: Reconciliation Through Reading & Reflection
$500 – Melanie Circle: Way to Go Library
$500 – Isabelle Laurin: Carhi Interact Beachfire Picnic
$500 – James Wood: Neighbourhood Concert
$500 – Sole MacDougall: Ocean Grove School Grade 5 Celebration
$500 – Sheila Hollanders: Surge Narrows Community Art Project

$500 – Ann Vansnick: Goodbye Summer Hello Fall Sayward Style
$500 – Anne-Marie Long: Discovery Islands Pride
$500 – James Wood: Music Recordings
$500 – Kiley Ketchum: Snacking Together
$500 – Laurel Cronk: Loop Day!
$500 – Nancy Welsh: Art That Anyone Can Do!
$500 – Sandra Weames: Adams Family Picnic
$500 – Sarah Wright: Active School Travel Community Day
$500 – Sieglinde Bentham: Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness & Fire Safe Community
$500 – Nevil Hand: Quadra Island Beach Cleanup
$500 – Ann Vansnick: Spring is in the Air
$500 – Sandra Weames: Strong Homes Make Strong Neighbourhoods
$500 – Sole MacDougall: Ocean Grove Movie Night
$500 – Vanessa Sharkey: Food Forest
$500 – James Wood: Music Recodings Fall 2022
$500 – Tanya Henck: Squirrel Cove Fall Fair
$500 – Carla Duffey: Portraits for People
$500 – Diane McCredie: Flower Power
$500 – Karen Floor: Larwood Library Book Bench
$500 – Louella Baker: Pickleball for Quadra Seniors
$500 – Whitney Ramm: Gold Panning
$500 – Lucilla Girotto: Book Care Box Spring 2021
$500 – Nevil Hand: Quadra Island Beach Cleanup
$475 – Richard Cronk: Owl Channel Project
$500 – Tamara McPhail: Bokashiand Vermicomposting Demo
$500 – Sulyn Cedar: Mushroom Growing Workshop
$463 – Teresa Reimer: Easy Self Watering Garden Systems
$500 – Ann Vansnick: Young Families Growing Together

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“We donate to the Campbell River Community Foundation for many reasons. We love the fact that by donating to them, we leave a legacy for our family. We appreciate the fact that the money goes back into our community to support other non-profits and charities. It makes it such an easy choice for us to donate to them because we know where the money is going and we get to see the effect it has on people in our city.”

Kyle & Sarah Leigh – the North Island Craft Beer Festival Society Fund

“I want everyone to learn about the Foundation and know what they do! As a business, we are asked so frequently for donations to events, which I love supporting, but I know that when I give to the Foundation, it gets redistributed back into the community and benefits everyone. It helps take the decision-making out of it for me, when I support the Community Foundation, I know I’m supporting Campbell River.”

Christine Lilyholm

The Campbell River Community has been really good to us through years of developing our businesses, so it has been really important on a philanthropy level and family morals level, to give back to the community that has always supported you.

Amanda Raleigh

The level of giving, and the level of philanthropy in this community is unbelievable.

Bill Matthews

The Campbell River Community Foundation is an organization that has a lot of professional people in it that manage the funds extremely well and distributes them to the individual organizations that really need them.

Randy Leigh

We have chosen to invest in the Campbell River Community Foundation because it is a way of giving back to the community and a continuing future legacy in which the funds are well managed and not heavy in administration fees. Local organizations in need are well served by this growing Foundation.

Kerry & Barry Watchorn