2025-2029 Surrey Financial Plan

MAYOR, COUNCIL AND GRANTS—DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS

2025

Approved Amount

Non-profit Organization

Description

Request

Funding toward a Mental Health Awareness Conference, focusing on South Asian newcomers.

Culture Chats BC Association

1,000

Health & Social Services

Movies Under the Stars is a free activity held in Downtown Surrey. 2025 events will take place August 2, 9 & 16, 2025 at Holland Park.

Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association

3,500

Community Promotion

Funding toward the Crossroads Initiative, featuring panel discussions with cultural leaders from diverse backgrounds, fostering cross-cultural dialogue. Support towards the Law Students' Legal Advice Program summer in-person clinic staffed by law students, providing accessible legal services to those in need. Funding for the Free Food Program, which redistributes surplus food from local grocery stores to low-income individuals and families. The emergency food box program recovers food that is close to expiring from retailers and distributes it to residents in need. Requesting support towards delivery costs and purchase of perishables like dairy and eggs. Funding for the Mothers and Sisters soccer program for girls & women, which aims to enhance the participation of high school girls in sports and promote well-being among new immigrant women. Funding toward the Wildlife in the Schools Program, which makes environmental education accessible to students. Support prevention workshops for children and youth which provide training in protection from sexual exploitation and sex trafficking ("Taking Care of Ourselves, Taking Care of Others", or TCO2). Funding for the Family Navigator program to support parents and caregivers of children with autism and developmental disabilities. The Repair Café is a volunteer community initiative which brings together people with repair expertise and community members with items in need of repair. Funding requested for branded aprons for Repair Café volunteers. Funding towards the "Family Place", a drop-in parent participation program for young families to engage with activities and seek out supportive resources in a welcoming, stigma-free environment. Support towards operating expenses for vessels and equipment for marine search and rescue operations stationed at Crescent Beach in South Surrey. Funding for workshops focusing on domestic violence in Muslim and ethnic communitites.

Espoir for All Society

1,000

Cultural and Recreational

Greater Vancouver Law Students' Legal Advice Society

2,500

Health & Social Services

Immigrant Link Centre Society

5,000

Health & Social Services

Kurdish Canadian Society

2,000

Health & Social Services

Nisa Foundation

2,000

Health & Social Services

North Surrey Mustangs Football Club

2,200

Cultural and Recreational

Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society

1,500

Environmental

PLEA Community Services Society of BC

2,000

Health & Social Services

REACH Child and Youth Development Foundation

2,000

Health & Social Services

Repair Café South Surrey White Rock

1,000

Environmental

Semiahmoo Family Place

2,000

Health & Social Services

Semiahmoo Peninsula Marine Rescue Society

3,000

Community Promotion

The Peer Support Program provides opportunities and events for Surrey residents with spinal cord injuries.

Spinal Cord Injury BC

2,500

Cultural and Recreational

Funding towards the SuperChefs Camp, a four-day camp in partnership with Surrey Schools where children learn cooking and nutrition skills.

SuperChefs Cookery Society

3,000

Cultural and Recreational

Funding for the 3-day Amateur Radio Field Day Emergency Exercise, which has been held in Surrey since 1975.

Surrey Amateur Radio Communications

1,000

Community Promotion

Support for the grocery voucher program used by people in need of assistance from the Christmas Bureau Society.

Surrey Christmas Bureau Society

3,500

Health & Social Services

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