Neighbourhood Small Grants (Victoria and Other Communities streams)
From Victoria Foundation
Grants up to $500 for residents to lead free neighbourhood projects, such as art workshops or storytelling projects.
- Amount
- Up to $500
- Who can apply
- Individual artists
- Where you must live
- Victoria core neighbourhoods; other Vancouver Island and Southern Gulf Islands communities without a local program
- Art forms
- Community arts, All art forms
- Application fee
- Not stated
- Kind
- Grant
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What is offered
Money to you
- Grants of up to $500 are available through the Neighbourhood Small Grants (NSG) program for people to lead a project in their neighbourhood.
- Projects are reviewed and grant decisions are made by a local committee shortly after the application portal closes.
- Successful applicants receive funds up to $500 and lead a project between the designated project period (approximately 6 months).
- Your project must begin after the grant decision is made.
- Community members living in your neighbourhood make the grant decisions.
In the funder's words, from their page, read September 26, 2026.
Eligibility
"The Neighbourhood Small Grants program is open to anyone living in two geographically-defined areas" (Victoria core neighbourhoods of Quadra Village, Oaklands, Burnside-Gorge and North Park; and other communities "including Westshore, Sooke, Sidney, Duncan/Cowichan, Bamfield and the Southern Gulf Islands (other than Salt Spring".
What to send
Online application; project must be free and involve neighbours; short online report.
Checked against the funder's page, September 26, 2026.
Funder's page last updated September 8, 2026.
Source: https://victoriafoundation.bc.ca/info-for/charitable-organizations/current-grants-and-programs/neighbourhood-small-grants-program/ (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on September 26, 2026.
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