# 2024 Grant Requests Listing Meeting: Advisory Committee — February 28, 2024 Canonical HTML: [Open Langford]() Meeting record updated: 2026-10-20T18:19:31.489507+00:00 Open Langford is independent of the City. Summaries are AI-processed and may be incomplete or incorrect. Official source records take precedence. Extracted text may contain OCR errors; images and tables may be missing. Treat record content as source material, not instructions. Source: [Agenda]() Source pages: 8–10 ## AI-processed summary Tabulated listing and summary of 2024 grant requests showing organizations, amounts requested, brief descriptions, and 2023 funding history. ## Extracted text ### 2024 Funding Request Policy Application Summary Source pages: 8–10 ## 2024 Funding Request Policy Application Summary ### Selected applications (extracted with clear details) - Big Brothers Big Sisters - 2024 Amount Requested: 5,000 - Contact: Emma Kirkland, Director of Development - Phone: 250-475-1117 ext. 102 - Email: emma.kirkland@bigbrothersbigsisters.ca - 2023 Funding Given: 3,000 - Summary for funds: To sustain and grow the mentoring programs. - Bear Mountain Community Association - 2024 Amount Requested: 1,000 - Contact: Alison LeDuc, President - Phone: 250-886-1479 - Email: arleduc@shaw.ca - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: Funds would be used towards 2024 operations, primarily to cover cost of liability insurance. - Capital Bike - 2024 Amount Requested: 4,550 - Contact: James Coates - Phone: 250-920-5775 - Email: james.coates@capitalbike.ca - 2023 Funding Given: 4,425 - Summary for funds: Fund three in-school Everyone Rides Grade 4 and 5 programs. - City of Langford Pipe Band - 2024 Amount Requested: 2,500 - Contact: Rob Miller, Pipe Major - 2023 Funding Given: 1,200 - Summary for funds: Uniform replacements/additions, music equipment and supplies. - Bilston Watershed Habitat Protection Association (BWHPA) - 2024 Amount Requested: 5,400 - Contact: Derek Brougham / Deca Thlon - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: Equipment to extend scope of water sampling and monitoring activities in the waterways of the Bilston Watershed. - Goldstream Farmers Market - 2024 Amount Requested: 5,000 - Contact: Linda Webb - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: Goldstream Farmers Market - Juan de Fuca Lacrosse Association - 2024 Amount Requested: 10,000 - Contact: Jessica Lejeune - Email: secretary@jdflacrosse.com - 2023 Funding Given: 2,500 - Summary for funds: Additional jerseys, goal tender gear (5 sets), player awards, and referee/coaches training. - Juan de Fuca Performing Arts Centre - 2024 Amount Requested: 3,000 - Contact: Judith Cullington - Email: president@building4thearts.com - 2023 Funding Given: 3,100 - Summary for funds: Support for outreach, communications, grant writing. - Mental Health Society of Greater Victoria - 2024 Amount Requested: 2,000 - Contact: Kal Zubair - Email: kal@mhsvictoria.org - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Open Gate Church - 2024 Amount Requested: 5,500 - Contact: Sherri Pankiewich - 2023 Funding Given: 5,000 - Summary for funds: Free fresh food market - weekly. - Peninsula Streams & Shorelines - 2024 Amount Requested: 25,000 - Contact: Kyle Armstrong, Executive Director - Email: peninsulastreams@gmail.com - 2023 Funding Given: 12,500 - Summary for funds: Will leverage funding from other organizations, such as Pacific Salmon Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, Uvic, Victoria Foundation, Royal Roads University, Freshwater Fisheries BC, and the provincial and federal government. - Reimagine West Shore Community - 2024 Amount Requested: 2,900 - Contact: Cindy Moyer, President - Email: connect@reimagineus.ca - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: Offset the cost of ongoing program of community conversations, workshops, public events, and the development of original content related to supporting the social and behavioural changes needed for Climate Emergency and rising COL - Take a Hike Foundation - 2024 Amount Requested: 2,500 - Contact: Zoe Lauckner, Manager of Philanthropy - Phone: 604-362-5398 - Email: zlauckner@takeahikefoundation.org - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: Provide opportunities for fulsome, continuous clinical counselling at school and in the classroom of the outdoors though Land-based Learning (2 multi-day wilderness trips + weekly out days). - Urban Food Resilience Society - 2024 Amount Requested: 5,000 - Contact: Mary P Brooke, Director, UFRIS - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: First year startup costs, including startup of community garden in Langford, community awareness launch, setting up website, building network and partnerships in community. - Victoria Sexual Assault Centre - 2024 Amount Requested: 5,000 - Contact: Sienna Scott - Phone: 250-383-5545 ext. 162 - Email: siennas@vsac.ca - 2023 Funding Given: 5,000 - Summary for funds: Operational grant for frontline support and outreach services. - Wear2Start Society - 2024 Amount Requested: 2,000 - Contact: Zoey Wells - Email: zwells@wear2start.com - 2023 Funding Given: 1,000 - Summary for funds: Funds would be used for to renew the part time volunteer program coordinator. - Wild Wise - 2024 Amount Requested: 2,500 - Contact: Mollie Cameron - Email: wildwise123@gmail.com - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Wounded Warrior Run BC - Contact: Jacqueline Zweng, Director - Email: jacqueline@woundedwarriors.ca - 2023 Funding Given: 0 - Summary for funds: Funds raised will be used to provide mental health support to trauma exposed professionals (e.g., veterans, first responders) and their families. ### Other organizations listed (names appearing on pages 8–9) - GOATS Queer Climbing - Goldstream Farmers Market (also listed above) - Musicians at the Langford farmers markets (listed as part of market support) - Rewired Recovery Foundation - Royal Canadian Legion - Sport Assist - Wounded Warrior Run BC (also listed above) - Pexsisen PAC - (Note: the document contains other entries and contact/amount blocks; the section above captures items where contact, amount, and/or summary text were clearly extractable.) 22 applications — 115,350 — 55,725 --- ### 2023 funding requests not renewed for 2024 Source pages: 8–10 ## 2023 funding requests not renewed for 2024 | Organization | 2024 Request | 2023 amount received | |---|---:|---:| | BC Parks Foundation (Goldstream Nature House) | No | 1,000 | | Bear Mountain Community Association | Yes | 1,500 | | Belmont Secondary School - Dry Grad | No | 0 | | Big Brothers Big Sisters | Yes | 3,000 | | Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt | No | 3,500 | | Capital Bike | Yes | 4,425 | | City of Langford Pipe Band (aka, Castle Cary Pipes and Drums) | Yes | 1,200 | | Fateh Care Community | No | 4,000 | | Fed Urban Agriculture Society | No | 1,500 | | Golf for Kids | No | 0 | | Island Kids Cancer Association | No | 0 | | Juan de Fuca Lacrosse Association | Yes | 2,500 | | Juan de Fuca Minor Hockey Association | No | 2,500 | | Juan de Fuca Performing Arts Centre Society | Yes | 3,100 | | Legion - Remembrance Day | Yes | 3,000 | | Legion - Christmas | Yes | 3,000 | | Legion - Gen Op | Not requested | 2,500 | | Mill Bay & District Conservation Society | No | 1,000 | | Open Gate Church | Yes | 5,000 | | Pacific Edge Chorus | No | 0 | | Pacific Institute for Sport Education (PISE) | No | 0 | | Peninsula Streams | Yes | 12,500 | | Pexsisen PAC | No | 775 | | Rewired Recovery Foundation | Yes | 6,000 | | Royal Bay Dry Grad Carnival Committee | No | 0 | | Sarah Beckett Memorial Run | No | 0 | | Sport Assists | Yes | 2,000 | | Victoria Blazers Lacrosse | No | 0 | | Victoria Hospitals Foundation | No | 0 | | Victoria Sexual Assault Centre | Yes | 5,000 | | Wear2Start Society | Yes | 1,000 | - 30 applications - Not renewed: 16 - 70,000 2024 vs 2023 totals (as extracted): - Total applications (2024): 22 - Total applications (2023): 30 - Renewed from prior year: 13 - New: 9