Community Grant Program (Regina)

Overview of the Community Grant Program (Regina) program:

The Saskatchewan Lotteries Community Grant Program (CGP) supports non-profit organizations in Saskatchewan by funding sports, culture, and recreation projects. The program is administered through local governments and aims to ensure equitable access regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, economic status, or physical or mental ability. A portion of the grant must specifically address the needs of target populations, including Indigenous people, seniors, women, economically disadvantaged individuals, persons with disabilities, new Canadians, and single parents. The goals of this grant program are: • to provide access to sport, culture, and recreation programs for all Saskatchewan people regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, economic status, physical, or mental ability; • to support the development and maintenance of sport, culture, and recreation programs and activities; and, • to increase the awareness of the benefits of participation in sport, culture, and recreation programs as a way of improving individual health, well-being, and self-fulfillment.

Benefits of the Community Grant Program (Regina) program:

• Provides funding for community-based sports, culture, and recreation initiatives.
• Promotes inclusive participation among underrepresented groups.
• Enables volunteer-led organizations to implement impactful local projects.

Eligibility criteria of the Community Grant Program (Regina) program:

• Eligible Organizations
• Organizations must be a registered non-profit community organization that is operating with an active status, and that has been incorporated for at least one year at the time of application submission.
• The organization must have appropriate liability and participants insurance in place for programs funded through this grant.
• Ineligible Organizations
• Organizations that have a deficit or projected deficit;
• Organizations that have not met the terms and conditions of any funding program administered by the City of Regina.
• Eligible Programs
• Programs must have sport, culture and/or recreation as their main focus.
• Programs directed at under-represented populations.
• Programs that have the direct involvement of under-represented populations in the planning, operating and evaluation of activities supported by the grant.
• Programs must occur in Regina unless an activity or facility is not offered in Regina. For those activities outside Regina participants of the program must be primarily (or 80 percent) Regina residents.
• Programs must occur between April 1, 2026, and February 28, 2027.
• The majority of program participants must be Regina residents.
• Programs must be open to the general public and not discriminate on the basis of age, economic status, physical or mental ability, race, religion, gender or ethnicity.
• NOTE: A low priority is given to program funding requests from organizations that serve a small, restricted group of people, rather than the general public. Examples include requests from a daycare, gymnastics club, band, etc.
• Ineligible Programs
• Capital development projects such as playground development, athletic field, park or facility developments.
• Retroactive funding.
• Programs that have an educational, social service, career development or life-skills focus, including literacy, career counseling, resume writing, computer or Internet classes, cooking, disease prevention, parenting, etc.
• Staff development or training.
• Fundraising activities or show and sale events.
• Funding for hosting or attending a conference.