Many of our field trip groups do fundraising activities to help them with their costs. The following is a list of suggested activities.

Fundraising Activities List

Hot Lunches
Car Washes
Auctions
Bottle Drives
Bake Sales
Gift Basket Raffles
Art Raffles
Chocolate Bar Sales
T-Shirt Sales
Flower & Bulb Sales
Specialty Food Sales
Cookbooks
Fun Fair
As well as seeking donations from your local businesses and community groups

We invite all of our groups to share their fundraising ideas and stories by emailing them to us here: Anne Stewart

For further financial assistance, please contact:

The Public Education Program
The Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
100 Pachena Road
Bamfield, BC V0R 1B0
Phone: (250) 728-3301 Ext 226
Fax: (250) 728-3452
Email: Anne Stewart

 

Further Financial Assistance is made possible by the kind generosity of the following:

“It is most important for as many young students as possible be exposed to the wonders of natural science and develop a love of and curiosity for the living world.” (Wendy Rebanks, Treasurer of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, September 22, 2005)

The W. Garfield Weston Foundation Trustees are pleased to know that funds from their foundation will be used as “seed money” for teachers from low socio-economic region schools to fund raise for a class field trip to Bamfield.

Teachers seeking assistance are invited to have their principal submit supporting stats and/or documents demonstrating need to the Public Education Program.

Oceans of Art

The proceeds of artwork sold from the Oceans of Arts Gallery go towards the BMSC Public Education Program’s bursary fund. Teachers of students requiring financial assistance are invited to contact the Public Education Program for further information.

Or to assist entire classes with their BMSC Field Trip fundraising efforts, a piece of Oceans of Art work can be donated to them to use for a fundraising activity. Participating classes are asked to please acknowledge the contributing artist in a local press release. Interested teachers are invited to contact the Public Education Program for further information

In summer 2004, two work experience students painted up an old gumboot to be used as a Public Education Program Bursary Fund donation box. Since then, visitors to BMSC have been generously donating to the boot.