Tools for Residents and Neighbourhood Associations
Neighbourhood Led Action Plan Guide
The City’s Neighbourhood Team has prepared a guidebook for residents interested in creating a Neighbourhood Led Action Plan. If you have ideas for improving your neighbourhood, the guide can help you get organized.
The guide describes how to bring community members together to share ideas and helps organizers find the resources needed to pursue their goals. Creating a plan together strengthens social capacity and increases resiliency.
The Placemaking Toolkit is a guide for implementing your ideas for community-led placemaking. It includes information on accessing City supports and a catalogue of pre-approved placemaking elements.
The Placemaking Toolkit focuses on grassroots placemaking and focuses on smaller scale projects using a lighter-quicker-cheaper approach. This is intended to make projects manageable for residents and help ensure that they are successful.
Block parties are a great way to celebrate your community with neighbours. To ensure there is appropriate time for staff review, you will need to apply for a permit a month before the event. Upon approval, a permit will be issued free of charge. You can apply for a My Great Neighbourhood Grant to help you with the cost of your first event. For support with block party applications, email culture@victoria.ca.
Community-led walkshops can be an effective way to have community conversations between City staff and residents. They are an opportunity for residents to get information and express their perspectives to staff about issues and opportunities that are of interest to them. Learn how to plan and initiate a walkshop in the Walkshop Residents Guide [PDF/405KB].
Resident organizations can contact their City Council liaison to discuss neighbourhood issues. Visit the Mayor & Council page to find your neighbourhood liaison.
Find out more about resources that other community-based organizations offer neighbourhoods.
A collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in B.C. The initiative is currently delivered and hosted by SHIFT Collaborative in collaboration with:
The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network focuses on what happens in the public realm. This includes places, green spaces, streets and informal gathering areas. Placemaking is about bringing community members together to collaborate in creating great places.
Do you have a great idea for your community? Through the Neighbourhood Small Grants program, small grants of up to $500 are available. These grants help residents develop projects that meet the needs of the community.
A nonprofit organization that helps people create and sustain public spaces. These spaces help build stronger communities. They are the central hub of the global placemaking movement. The Project for Public Spaces connects people who see place as the key to addressing our greatest challenges.
A nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing economy. What’s the sharing economy? It’s movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges.
The quality of a public space has always been best defined by the people who use it. Expensive initiatives are not the only way to bring energy and life to a community's public space. The growing success of Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper projects around the world is proof of that.
A nonprofit that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders. The Better Block Foundation helps leaders reshape and reactivate environments. This promotes the growth of healthy and vibrant neighbourhoods.
Curbed’s mission is to advocate for the places where people live. They celebrate and explain everything you need to know about neighbourhoods and cities.
Tamarack Community turns theory into action by connecting people to share and learn together. They work one-on-one with organizations to help advance their specific agendas. They work in two practice areas to advance community change:
