Pacific Spirit Park Society

12/02/2025

During the Month of Giving, your donations will be matched by the Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation!

https://give-can.keela.co/pacificspiritparksociety

This year, our incredible volunteers have already spent 4270 hours removing invasive species, planting trees, and caring for the Pacific Spirit Park. That's thousands of hours of hard work, mud, and dedication!

But we can't continue to do this all on sweat equity alone. We need tools, plants, and safety gear to keep this momentum going in 2026.

Please donate today to ensure we can continue to protect the park we all cherish so much.

12/03/2024

Seasons greetings friends! It’s that time of year again where the Pacific Spirit Park Society needs your help! PSPS is raising funds to support our park programming for 2025 and we have an ambitious goal of raising $6000!

Donate at https://give-can.keela.co/pacificspiritparksociety

There is no better time to give than in December, during Metro Vancouver Regional Park Foundation’s Month of Giving. Between now and December 31st, MVRPF will match every dollar donated to PSPS up to the first $2000!

07/23/2024

Dear Friends of the Pacific Spirit Park Society,

It is with great sadness that I have to share the news that Laura Cottle, who has been our Volunteer and Program Coordinator for the past four years, will be moving on from her current role at PSPS and will be taking on a new position as Forestry Specialist for B.C. with Tree Canada in the coming fall.

Laura has been an integral part of the society. She has been amazing to work with and her passion shines through the work she has done for PSPS. She helped pioneer innovative new programs such as First Sunday EcoWALKs and EcoTable to name a few. Her greatest accomplishment, however, is the community of volunteers she has helped nurture and develop. She always made sure to make everyone feel included and important, and she has been an inspiration to many with her wealth of knowledge and her wide-reaching connections with the nature community in BC. She truly has been a force of nature, for nature.

Best wishes to you Laura! We will miss you but are also so excited for your next role. We are so glad you will continue to be a part of PSPS as a volunteer for the Eagle Nest Monitoring (and perhaps something else?)!

We are currently hiring for a new Volunteer & Program Coordinator. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please point them in our direction! Find out more at https://bit.ly/46gzMQI

Best regards,

Joyce
PSPS Chair

On behalf of the PSPS Board

05/15/2024

PSPS is hiring for an EcoTeam Coordinator!

We're looking for someone to help us coordinate our EcoTeam events. If you live in the Vancouver area, love working with volunteers in nature, and have some time to spare on Saturdays, this could be the role for you!

Find out more at https://bit.ly/3wmiDrn

04/29/2024

01/27/2024

Notice to members: Come join PSPS on February 27th at 6:30pm to celebrate the last year at the 2023 AGM! The AGM will be held over zoom.

Please register using the following form: https://forms.gle/YPxQrEq7s1xRB4aN8

Zoom link and documents will be forwarded closer to the event. We are looking forward to seeing you there 🦅

12/28/2023

Pacific Spirit Park Society is a community-driven, volunteers-run organisation that works hard to connect park visitors to nature. We run monthly EcoWALKs (the very popular “First Sunday EcoWALKs”) and we also organise child-based hands-on learning opportunities such as Forest Explorations in the summer and Camosun Bog Learning Stations in the spring.

Many studies have shown that spending time in nature has numerous health and psychological benefits for children such as reduced obesity, improved mental well being, increased resilience and even faster cognitive development. By fostering an appreciation and respect for nature, our child-based EcoEducation activities can encourage the development of environmentally conscious behaviour. That makes cool kids!

By donating to PSPS during the Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation’s Month of Giving, donation matching means every dollar goes twice as far towards expanding our EcoEducation programs for both kids AND their parents!

Visit https://give-can.keela.co/pacificspiritparksociety to donate.

Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation

12/21/2023

It's been a long month but we're almost there! We're this 👉--👈 close to reaching our goal of raising $5000 to help support our 2024 programming! This includes:

• Planting 300 native trees and shrubs in the area bordered by Salish, Spanish and Sword Fern Trail at Pacific Spirit Regional Park 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

• Hosting numerous EcoWalks for community organizations and members of the public 🚶

• Working with the Spanish Banks Streamkeepers to keep our streams and fauna happy 🐟
. and more!

Help support our various stewardship, education and citizen science programs in the park by donating today at https://give-can.keela.co/pacificspiritparksociety

Thank you to everyone that has supported us so far and thank you to Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation who has kindly matched a large portion of the funds donated to PSPS as part of their Double Your Donation: Park Partners Challenge campaign (https://mvrpfoundation.ca/doubledonation/).

12/15/2023

The Pacific Spirit Park Society is a community-driven, volunteers-run organization that aims to protect the natural integrity of the Pacific Spirit Park. Thanks to donations, we are able to promote the use of the park, while encouraging its preservation and protection.

There is no better time to donate than in December, during Metro Vancouver Regional Park Foundation’s Month of Giving. Between now and December 31st, MVRPF will match every dollar donated to PSPS.

Donation matching means every dollar goes twice as far!

And while you're at it, don't forget to support our friends with the CTS Youth Society who we collaborated with at the event where this photo is taken.

PSPS donation link: https://give-can.keela.co/pacificspiritparksociety

CTS Youth Society donation link: https://give-can.keela.co/ctsyouthsociety

Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation