Park Board announces latest Neighbourhood Matching Fund recipients

We are pleased to announce the latest cohort of projects funded through our long-standing Neighborhood Matching Fund (NMF). Together, these seven new projects will help build community connections through art, gardening and environmental conservation.

Since 1994, the NMF has provided funding and support for community-led projects that showcase and celebrate the unique character of Vancouver’s neighborhoods. The NMF awards each successful group up to $10,000 in matching contributions, including donations in kind and volunteer work.

funded projects

These projects have received funding to continue their work and improve Vancouver’s vibrant park system:

• Cottonwood community garden will develop a self-guided walking tour focused on urban agricultural production at the Community Garden in Strathcona Park.
• Free the Fern Stewardship Society will integrate place-based learning (ecology, arts and indigenous teachings) into the process of creating a native food forest on South Vancouver’s Red Alder Trail.
• Maps, Medicines and Meadows: Nurture replenishment together with the land project, sponsored by Hives for Humanity, will continue its work to restore native species to the berry patch in Beaconsfield Park. This project structures practices of tending, harvesting, and giftgiving to replenish collaborative relationships by sharing participants’ skills, stories, and communities through shared tending of the land.
• Collingwood Neighborhood House Society received funding to revamp Joyce Street Community banners. This cross-cultural and intergenerational art project brings seniors and youth together to create banners to be installed in the neighborhood. Participants will share stories of belonging through art making as inspiration for the banners.
• Bog restoration in Stanley Parksponsored by the Stanley Park Ecology Society, focuses on restoring the small swamp at Stanley Park’s Beaver Lake and enhancing the surrounding wetland habitat.
• Still Moon Arts Society will construct with the community an elaborate corn cob garden shed that will serve as storage for hoses and garden tools and as a surface for art on the exterior walls.
• Medicine Wheel Mosaic, organized by the Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation, will be installed in Oxford Park. A circular paddling pool that is no longer in use will be transformed into a community-created medicine wheel mosaic design.

Apply to the Neighborhood Matching Fund

If you have a creative project that actively engages your local community and builds neighborhood relationships, we want to hear from you.

The application for the next NMF funding round begins in spring.

Learn more about the Neighborhood Matching Fund program