Following discussion of 2023 grant-in-aid applications at a closed meeting on May 11, the Sunshine Coast Regional District board released decisions on those awards at its May 25 meeting. Thirty-four local organizations were awarded a total of just over $117,000, as follows:
Brigade Bay Homeowner's Society $3,000
British Columbia Conservation Foundation $3,400
Coast Recital Society $500
Coast Rogue Arts Society $3,450 Deer Crossing:
The Art Farm Society $3,250 (for two projects)
Gambier Community Centre Society $1,600
Gambier Island Conservancy $4,780
Gibsons Landing Heritage Society $5,000
Gibsons Marine Education Centre Society $2,300
Gibsons Public Art Gallery $2,000
Halfmoon Bay Child Care Centre Society $4,980
Loon Foundation $3,500
One Straw Society $4,000
Pender Harbour Community Club $4,150
Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society $6,050 (for archives work and the recent May Day event)
Pender Harbour Music Society $5,000
Restorative Justice Program of the Sunshine Coast $3,800
Roberts Creek Community Association for (Earth Day and Slow Sunday initiatives $2,500)
Roberts Creek Mandala Society $4,350
Serendipity Child Development Society $5,000
Society for the Protection of Sargeant Bay $5,000
Special Olympics BC - Sunshine Coast $2,000
Suncoast Woodcrafters Guild $500
Sunset Estates at Long Bay Owners Society $626
Sunshine Coast Arts Council $3,000
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society $5,000
Sunshine Coast Conservation Association $2,300
Sunshine Coast Dance Society $3,000
Sunshine Coast Driftwood Players $2,500
Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts $4,500
Sunshine Coast Hospice Society $5,000
Sunshine Coast Jazz and Entertainment Society $2,500
Sunshine Coast Resource Centre Society $5,000
Sunshine Coast Trails Society $3,500.
It was noted that a grant submission from the Sunshine Coast Skating Club was not funded as it did not align with the board’s grant-in-aid policy. The board also approved adding mention of which electoral areas contributed to each grant in the award letters sent to the successful groups.
