Help us raise $30,000 and build the next generation of environmental leaders.
Bursaries: Making Nature Education Accessible
Over half of our 1200+ youth participants need bursary support annually!
With your Walkalong donations:
- YOU will make it possible for children to travel to Galiano.
- YOU will give children their first experiences in nature – from camping with their friends, to hiking among 100+ year old trees or finding their first sea star.
- YOU will inspire young environmental stewards and climate-action leaders!
Watch Maia Green, Grade 8 teacher at Esquimalt Middle School explain how bursaries made her class’s 2018 trip to Galiano possible.
Get Involved
Make a One Time Donation
Create a new Peer-to-Peer Campaign
Contribute to an existing Peer-to-Peer Campaign
Join a Fundraising Team
Learn How to create your fundraising page by playing the video below
Donations over $25 will receive a tax receipt before March 2022
Attend the Walkalong
Join us on Saturday, August 28th at the Millard Learning Centre (10825 Porlier Pass Road) for the event. Get serenaded by acoustic musicians as you walk along scenic coastal bluffs and through the beautiful permaculture Food Forest garden. Learn about local fauna & flora, sustainable food and climate action with GCA environmental interpreters and watch live painters along the way! Enjoy yummy ice cream, food, drinks (19+) and more as you listen to live mainstage headliners at the Celebration after you walk the musical trail.
If you are a Peer-to-Peer fundraiser on a one-time donor, you will need to register for the walk separately. Click the button below to purchase tickets. Fixed & sliding scale ticket prices available (and, yes, fundraisers can enter $0 on the sliding scale ticket).
Fundraising Calculator (Updated every Friday)
Days remaining to fundraise for Walkalong (closes Sept 16th)
Meet our Fundraisers
Matching up to $10,000 in funds raised!
Zita and Mark Bernstein Family Foundation
I am delighted to be able to support the GCA’s 2021 Walkalong through the Zita and Mark Bernstein Family Foundation.
My involvement with the GCA dates back to the early 1990s – when thanks to Rose Longini’s organization and hospitality -I was able to join baroque violinist Monica Huggett in several benefit concerts for the GCA. These were the highlights of my admittedly very short performing career, and it has been wonderful to follow the Conservancy’s amazing work since then.
The Zita and Mark Bernstein Family Foundation is named after my parents, and was established in 2019 through a bequest of my late father. The Foundation’s mandate is broad, but my two sisters and I share a commitment to charities that support education, the environment/land stewardship, social justice, the performing arts, and quality of life for the elderly.
I wish you all the best for this year’s Walkalong, and look forward to taking part in one when the pandemic has passed!
-Tamara Bernstein, Zita and Mark Bernstein Family Foundation
One Time Donation to the GCA Bursary Fund
Make a one time donation to the Galiano Conservancy’s Education Bursary Fund here. All donations will be counted
2021 Walkalong for Learning
Raising money for Environmental Education for kids! Local Galiano kiddos and inner city kids we all need to love and learn
Carly’s Walkalong Campaign
Please help support the 9th Annual Musical Walkalong for Learning by contributing to my campaign! The Walkalong enables kids
Emily’s Fundraiser for Kids Nature Education
Help me teach and inspire kids with nature and all it’s amazingness! Through the Conservancy’s Bursary Fund, your
Questions? Contact Us
Send an email our Education Coordinator, Emily, or our Development Coordinator, Jen.
If you prefer to call us with your question, please call our office 250-539-2424. Office hours Monday – Friday 9AM – 4:30PM.
Learn more about the Walkalong
Visit the Conservancy’s website for information on event schedule, musical lineup, registration and more!