Community of Denman Island

Featured Stories

  1. Kids Wrestling program introduces sport to youth

    More than 10,400 children learned to wrestle with program from Wrestling BC.

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  2. Denman Island hosts Celebrating Our Own Festival

    Arts Denman hosted a two-day visual arts event thanks to funding from Innovations.

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  3. Denman Island Community School hosts Explorations summer camps

    Students from Denman Island attended an Explorations summer camp in 2005.

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Related Highlights

  1. Arts Denman received $5,000 from Innovations to host Celebrating Our Own Festival, a two-day island-wide visual arts event.

  2. One school registered with Action Schools! BC to improve physical activity and healthy eating in students.

  3. More than 115 students attended Explorations summer camps in the Comox Valley School District.

  4. Over 145 tourism businesses in the Comox Valley and Strathcona area received accessibility ratings from the Accessible Tourism program.

  5. Over 10,400 youth in 32 communities across BC discovered the fundamentals of wrestling with Wrestling BC's Kids Wrestling program, funded by the BC Sport Participation Program in 2004-2007.

  6. Arts Denman received $4,130 from Innovations to offer a series of visual arts workshops.

  7. The Comox Valley literacy task group received $70,000 from Literacy Now Communities to improve literacy in the area.