Grants
Operations
- Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) assists with the day-to-day costs of running a licensed child care facility.
- The Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative (CCFRI) lowers the cost of child care for parents each month. Parents do not need to apply for the fee reduction.
- Community Gaming Grants support eligible not-for-profit organizations that deliver community programs that benefit the citizens of British Columbia.
- The Early Childhood Educator Wage Enhancement. Front-line Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) working in eligible licensed child care facilities receiving Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) are eligible to receive a $1 per hour wage enhancement.
- Community Gaming Grants support eligible not-for-profit organizations that deliver community programs that benefit the citizens of British Columbia.
- The Childcare BC Maintenance Fund helps licensed child care facilities address maintenance issues that may impact children’s health, safety, or well-being, or cause a facility to close.
- Community Gaming Grants support eligible not-for-profit organizations that deliver community programs that benefit the citizens of British Columbia.
- The Childcare BC New Spaces Fund is helping to fund the creation of 22,000 licensed child care spaces throughout British Columbia. Funding is available to support the creation, expansion and relocation of child care facilities proposing to create new licensed child care spaces in the following categories: Group Child Care (Under 36 Months); Group Child Care (30 Months to School Age); Group Child Care (School Age); Preschool; Multi-Age Child Care; Family; and In-Home Multi-Age Child Care