Apply for Active Yukon After School grant

Grants available up to $2,000 per school community. Grants can support expenses including:

• Staffing and leader fees, such as a contract for community part-time program staff;
• Honorariums;
• Equipment and supplies;
• Healthy food;
• Registration fees;
• Training and capacity building;
• Youth support wages;
• Transportation; and
• Other expenses needed to deliver the proposed project.

School staff wages, overhead or day-to-day operating costs are not eligible.

• Registered organizations in good standing under the Societies Act;
• Yukon-based not-for-profit corporations incorporated under the federal Not-for-Profit Corporations Act;
• Charitable organizations;
• Schools and school councils;
• First Nations governments; and
• Municipal governments.

Priority is given to programs and activities:

• at rural Yukon schools;
• Whitehorse-area schools subject to funding availability;
• that take place at or near the school that serve students that attend that school;
• for children from low-income families, First Nations, and newcomers to Canada;
• those disengaged in physical activity;
• which support regular programming, including special events or activities for a regular program;
• that are free, inclusive and barrier-reducing;
• which start right after the school day ends; and
• for elementary school-aged children.

Application deadline

Applications will be due March 7, 2025, for activities from April to June 2025. 

Applications will be due in September 2025, for the 2025-2026 school year. 

How to apply

Submit your application

Timeline for funding decisions

We'll decide within 5 business days from the date of the submission.

Each recipient needs to submit a final report using the online form, which should include a short narrative around:

• impact;
• supporting documents for expenses; and
• participation numbers.

Reporting is due 3 weeks after project activities have finished, or by the latest March 31, 2025.