Block Parties & Matching Grants

Block Party Grants - $100

Deadline to Apply for Summer 2019: April 30
Connect with your neighbours throughout the year. Building relationships in your neighbourhood improves your sense of well-being, your sense of security and strengthens the quality of life for you and your neighbours. Online Application

$100 Block Party Grants are available to individuals who wish to organize an activity in their neighbourhood which will help families, children and individuals get to know one another. Activities that some neighbourhoods have enjoyed include block parties, Easter egg hunts, Christmas caroling, movie nights, barbecues, picnics and talent shows.

Matching Grants - $500

Deadline to Apply for Summer 2019: April 30
This is a Maple Ridge program that supports improvements to local neighbourhoods or public spaces through a project that creates relationships and brings benefits to the local area. Projects should actively involve the residents of the neighbourhood surrounding area of the project, and be inclusive. Online Application

Focus Areas for Matching Grants:

Environmental Protection – Projects that address environmental impact or sustainability. Restore or regenerate land impacted negatively by environmental damage.
Youth Initiated – Projects that engage youth and contribute positively to a youth population.
Neighbourhood Organizing – Proposals that will create or strengthen existing or non existing neighbourhood groups.
Physical Improvement – For neighbourhoods to enhance, create, build or restore a physical structure.

Who Can Apply:

Support Up to $500: Any local neighbourhood group, group of residents, or informal group coming together to work on a specific project where the outcome will be improvement and/or beautification of a specific area, public land, green space, park or any other designated area. The group does not have to be a registered non-profit organization.

Support up to $1000: In special circumstances, neighbourhood groups may apply for up to $1000 in matching funds. For more details, call our office at 604-467-7325 or email Neighbours.