✔ Make a visible impact in your community
✔ Help protect local ecosystems
✔ Meet like-minded people
✔ Gain hands-on experience and skills
✔ Flexible opportunities to fit your schedule

Bonus:

• Training and safety guidance provided
• Volunteers are covered under SCRD insurance for approved activities
• Recognition through signage and online features (for Adopt programs)

• All activities are low risk and will either be approved and led by SCRD staff or approved and led by volunteers
• Training is provided before activities
• Volunteers may need to bring:
  • Gloves
  • Appropriate clothing
  • Basic tools (for some group-led activities)

• SCRD staff will review your application.
• You’ll be contacted about upcoming opportunities or next steps.
• For Adopt programs, staff will work with you to match parks or trails and plan activities.

This is a volunteer-led program to help care for a local park.

What you’ll do:

• Organize and lead volunteer work parties
• Support activities like clean-ups, invasive species removal, and vegetation management
• Help keep your adopted park safe and welcoming

Time Commitment:

• 1-year term (renewable)
• Minimum 2–4 volunteer events per year

Group Size:

• Minimum 4 people

This is a volunteer-led program to help maintain and monitor local trails.

What you’ll do:

• Conduct monthly trail condition checks
• Organize volunteer maintenance activities
• Assist with clean-ups and stewardship

Time Commitment:

• 1-year term (renewable)
• Monthly trail checks + 2 events per year

Group Size:

• Minimum 2 people

Protect local ecosystems by removing invasive plants.

What you’ll do:

• Participate in guided removal events
• Learn proper techniques to prevent spread

Time Commitment:

• Single-day events (up to 4 hours)
• Join as often as you like

Keep parks clean and enjoyable for everyone.

What you’ll do:

• Remove litter and debris
• Support community clean-up days

Time Commitment:

• Flexible, single-day events (up to 4 hours)

Help reduce wildfire risk in local parks. In collaboration with the FireSmart program, SCRD staff will lead FireSmart events. If you know of an area that should be assessed or treated, please let us know.

What you’ll do:

• Assist with vegetation management
• Support FireSmart activities

Time Commitment:

• Seasonal events (typically fall/winter)
• Single-day events (up to 4 hours)

Dakota Ridge runs on the energy and enthusiasm of incredible volunteers. They help create memorable experiences for everyone who comes to enjoy our cross-country and snowshoe trails.

What you’ll do:

• Welcoming guests
• Share trail tips
• Keep the warming hut fire going
• Play a key role in daily operations.

Time Commitment:

• Two shifts per month from mid-December to March.

Volunteers receive a cozy loaned ski jacket for their shifts—and a complimentary Dakota Ridge season pass to enjoy all winter long.

If you wish to volunteer please visit www.scrd.ca/dakota-ridge.

CLIP is a project lead by a community group that is proposing to take on the development, execution, ongoing maintenance and associated financial responsibility of the final product.

The SCRD’s role is to provide guidance and support (for example: during a permit application process) to the community group proposing the project.

The CLIP application form below is intended to provide the SCRD with an initial understanding of a community led project proposal.

Once the SCRD has reviewed the application, the applicant will be given advice on time frames potentially involved to bring their proposed project though the stages of planning, approvals, implementation, and ongoing operations. Projects may require additional information after the initial application depending upon the complexity of the project. This may include Provincial, Federal, and First Nations approvals.

Projects that request SCRD funding support require board approval and are subject to financial planning timelines. Project submission deadlines are in July for consideration for following year’s budget approvals.

The SCRD reviews CLIP applications as they are received. If your application is accepted for further consideration, additional information will be requested.

Please complete the application form here.