Deadline: 13-Jan-23
Applications are now open for the 2023 Trails Manitoba Grant Program.
The Trails Grant for Manitoba is an annual grant that will continue indefinitely. It is intended for trail associations, municipalities, or other not-for-profit groups, that have the means to provide continued stewardship of trails.
Objectives
- Specific objectives for this grant include:
- Provide new recreational trail opportunities which includes extending or improving existing trails, developing new trails, and addressing trail gaps and barriers.
- Improve the quality of the existing recreational trail network or the user’s experience including safety improvements, signage, wayfinding, and barriers to access.
- Maintenance of the recreational trail network, including pruning, repairing holes, trail beautification, normal erosion/drainage repairs, clean-up, usual repairs (signage, barriers, fencing, surfacing) and other maintenance tasks that are undertaken for upkeep of a trail.
Funding Information
- Normally, the maximum amount per grant is set to $75,000 with a two-year project completion window.
- Amounts and durations can be exceeded or considered if a rationale is provided.
Eligibility Criteria
- Recipients can be a municipality, or an association that is not-for-profit (trail association, sport association, recreation association, community club, etc.).
- Trails Manitoba will NOT provide grants to:
- provincial government or any provincial government body, entity, agency or organization
- any organization that is operated for-profit
- any organization that has not established operations in Manitoba
- individuals
For more information, visit Trails Manitoba.