Guides
Funding eligibility guides
Plain-language guides to grant eligibility in British Columbia and Alberta. Every program rule in them is read from the funder's own page, linked in the guide, and dated with when it was last checked.
The four guides
Checked September 2026
A page checked in September 2026 may have moved, closed or changed its rules since. The funder's page is the source; this page is the map.
Guide - checked September 2026
Do you qualify for that grant?
The tests that can rule an applicant out before anyone reads the project: the legal test, legal structure, geography, matching money and the documents that must already exist.
Read the guideGuide - checked September 2026
When to apply
Why a published deadline is a ceiling rather than a plan, and what that means for the order you do things in.
Read the guideGuide - checked September 2026
Indigenous business funding in BC and Alberta
The section 35 test, ownership thresholds set program by program, and the difference between a grant and debt, read against each funder's own page.
Read the guideGuide - checked September 2026
Funding for trades
Where a private trades business can be the applicant rather than the beneficiary, and why some program figures are not quoted until they are checked at source.
Read the guideSources and dates
How these guides are kept
Every program rule in these guides is read from the funder's own page, and that page is linked in the guide so you can read it yourself. Each guide carries the month it was last checked.
Every program rule quoted in these guides carries its source and the date it was checked. A date that no real source stated is left blank rather than guessed.
A wrong deadline is worse than a missing one.
Program figures we have not checked at source - for example WorkBC's wage subsidy and the BC Employer Training Grant - are not quoted here. Reading them at source is part of the work.
Insights
Three short pieces on how we work: eligibility first, no success fee, and you submit.
Insight
Why eligibility comes before the application
Whether you qualify is a separate question from whether the writing is good, and it is the one to settle first.
Read the articleInsight
Why we never take a success fee
A grant writer paid a percentage of the award has a financial reason to overstate your odds, and an honest assessment of those odds is what we are selling.
Read the articleInsight
You submit it in your own name - and what that gets you
We prepare the application and you submit it, so you are the contact of record and the funder's correspondence comes to you directly.
Read the articleStart with a free 20-minute call.
Twenty minutes to hear your situation. If there is something worth checking, the next step is the Discovery Package, $500 + GST: a written assessment of which programs appear genuinely open to you, which are not and why, and what the gates are.
Book a free 20-minute callOr read about the Discovery Package, or send us a message.
We cannot and do not guarantee that any application will be approved or that any funding will be received. Funding decisions rest entirely with the funder, on criteria and priorities outside our control.