OPPORTUNITIES

Funding & Grants

Heritage Legacy Fund

A joint project of Heritage BC and The Land Conservancy, the Heritage Legacy Fund provides matching grants up to $25,000 for the conservation of heritage resources and up to $10,000 for initiatives to increase heritage awareness, to registered associations and local governments.

Find out about new projects 
» New Projects Supported

Read about the BC150 - Heritage Legacy Fund program
» News: Heritage Legacy Fund

Visit the website to learn more
» www.heritagelegacyfund.ca

Heritage BC Workshop Program

Heritage BC provides grants of up to $2,000 to assist with the cost of training workshops for associations and local governments.
» HBC Workshop Program

Heritage Planning Funding

The provincial Heritage Branch offers funding to local government for a variety of community heritage planning programs.
» Heritage Planning

Job Opportunities Program

The Job Opportunities Program provides temporary jobs for unemployed resource sector workers. The program is provided under the Community Development Trust of the Ministry of Community and Rural Development, along with the Tuition Assistance Program which funds skills training.

Six provincial historic sites have already tapped the job and training programs, providing news skills and temporary employment for 56 individuals. The final funding round for the Job Opportunities Program runs from December 11 to January 22.  The Tuition Assistance Program funding is available until March 31, 2011.

» www.cd.gov.bc.ca/cdt

Towns for Tomorrow

A provincial program for communities with a population of 15,000 or less, provides grants of up to $400,000 for infrastructure projects including local designated heritage sites.
» www.townsfortomorrow.gov.bc.ca

Parks Canada

A new National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program will cover up to up to 50 per cent of eligible costs incurred in the conservation and presentation of a national historic site up to a maximum of $1,000,000. Eligible recipients are incorporated not-for-profit organizations, other levels of government, and aboriginal organizations.

Projects eligible for funding include technical and planning documents agreed by Parks Canada as necessary to ensure the site's commemorative integrity, and conservation projects to preserve, rehabilitate and/or restore components of a national historic site. Conservation projects may also include the development and implementation of presentation projects that focus on communicating to the public the reasons for designation as a national historic site.

The application deadline for fiscal year 2009-2010 is April 24, 2009. (Subsequent twice-yearly application deadlines to be announced.)

» Parks Canada 
pc.gc.ca/progs/lhn-nhs/ppf-csp/index_e.asp

Building Communities Through Arts & Heritage

Announced over a year ago, there are two components to this federal program:

Local Arts and Heritage Festivals
Festivals, events and activities that involve your whole community, give opportunities to local artists and artisans and/or celebrate local history and heritage.

Community Historical Anniversaries Programming
One-time commemoration through festivals or other activities that celebrate a major anniversary of a significant local person or event.

» Canadian Heritage  
www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/dcap-bcah/index-eng.cfm

Community Adjustment Fund

The federal Community Adjustment Fund is a billion dollar program to address the impacts of the global economic downturn at the local level.  Funding is available to create or sustain employment, especially in rural communities that are reliant on single industries.  Projects could include downtown revitalization, enhancing your historic site, or other possibilities.  The next deadline is June 26.

» Community Adjustment Fund
www.wd.gc.ca/eng/11269.asp#a