Twenty-six arts and culture groups throughout the Lower Mainland are getting more than $1 million help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Ten arts and culture groups on Vancouver Island and the islands in the Salish Sea are getting more than $440,000 help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Ten arts and culture groups in the Kootenays and the Thompson Okanagan are getting more than $317,000 help to improve their spaces or buy equipment.

Fifty community sport organizations in the Interior region will receive financial support from the Province’s $1.5-million Local Sport Relief Fund.

Twenty-two community sport organizations in the North will receive financial support from the Province’s $1.5-million Local Sport Relief Fund.

One hundred twenty-four community sport organizations in the Lower Mainland will receive financial support from the Province’s $1.5-million Local Sport Relief Fund.

Twenty-eight community sport organizations in the Kootenays will receive financial support from the Province’s $1.5-million Local Sport Relief Fund.

Sixty-four community sport organizations on Vancouver Island will receive financial support from the Province’s $1.5-million Local Sport Relief Fund.

Professional artists and others who work in the arts can get more support to help with challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic though a new grant program.