Accessibility Projects Grants

Accessibility Projects Grants 2025/2026
Promoting Inclusion and Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Applications are now closed!

Background

As part of the Province’s goal to improve accessibility for people with disabilities in BC, Disability Alliance BC was selected by the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction (SDPR) to distribute funding to community based “Accessibility Projects” beginning in 2018. Since then, over 95 projects have been funded.This year the grants have reopened with a total of $450,000 available to BC-based not-for-profit organizations to receive an up to a $40,000 grant.

These grants are for community engagement projects focusing on one of the following objectives to increase accessibility for people with disabilities:

  • Accessible employment;
  • Accessible emergency planning and response;
  • Accessible arts, culture and tourism;
  • Accessible sports and recreation;
  • Accessible education and learning;
  • Accessible community participation.

If the Accessibility Projects Grants are renewed for another year, it is likely that applications will open in August and close in September of 2026. To receive announcements about future granting cycles, please sign up for our e-newsletter at the bottom of this page.

Eligibility

Eligibility requirements include:

  • Projects must be community engagement focused. Projects that focus on large capital costs, such as accessibility improvements to buildings and outdoor spaces, will not be considered. If you would like a list of other accessibility related funding streams, including some that will fund large capital costs, please reach out to ap@dabc.ca.
  • Eligible organizations must be not-for-profit organizations based in BC, Canada, that operate primarily for community benefit and whose services are open to the public and not restricted to the organization’s membership.
  • Organizations do not need to be a registered charity but must have a democratically elected volunteer Board chosen by its membership.
  • National or international organizations may be eligible, but only if they have a base of operations in BC and sufficient capacity to deliver services in BC.
  • Governmental bodies, including municipalities, First Nations bands, and public-sector organizations are not eligible as they are targeted by other funding streams. For more information please see the Call for Proposals.
  • Once an organization has received a grant they can reapply 5 years after their application was submitted (for example, if an organization applied in 2020 for a grant and did their project in 2021, they can reapply in 2025 to do a project in 2026).
  • Organizations that have a real or perceived conflict of interest with DABC must declare this on their application and this will be dealt with on a case by case basis. For more information, please see our Conflict of Interest protocol here.

For more information on eligibility, please see the Call for Proposals.

Past Successful Projects

See information about past years’ successful projects at the links below:

If you have any questions about the grants, please contact the Coordinator at ap@dabc.ca.