Fernwood NRG is a social enterprising non-profit organization run by and for the residents of Fernwood, a neighbourhood in Victoria, BC.
Since 1979, our non-profit organization has provided child care and family programs, as well as offered recreational activities through the Fernwood Community Centre. In August 2005, we purchased the Cornerstone Building, and fourteen months later, we opened the Cornerstone Apartments, which provides affordable housing to four families. Soon after, we opened the Cornerstone Cafe, Fernwood’s living room. In 2008, we built a beautiful house on Yukon Street, the Park Place Apartments, creating affordable housing for six more families. Read more here.
We could not have achieved what we have without our funders, supporters, and friends. Please consider making a donation, and you can help us to continue to create the neighbourhood we all wish we had grown up in.
Latest News
Bid on online Silent Auction for The Gift of Good Food!
Our neighbours at the Fernwood Community Association have come together to raise money for Fernwood NRG’s Gift of Good Food program and they have organized an online Silent Auction. See HERE for […]
Fresh food builds resilience
Invisible need and the case for fresh food
›› Kathryn Juricic
This holiday season, Fernwood NRG is aiming to raise money to provide fresh fruits and vegetables every two weeks for 160 […]
Fernwood NRG Child Care selected for new $10/day prototype
Fernwood NRG’s Child Care programs are Victoria’s only location for BC’s new Universal Child Care Prototype
›› Lee Herrin
After months of applications and meetings with the Province of BC, Fernwood Neighbourhood […]
The 10th Annual Star Sunday – December 9, 2018
›› Jessica Ziakin-Cook
Many of us feel the mayhem at the mall and the hullabaloo of the holiday season and miss the essential meaning of Christmas. And yet most of us […]
Update: Vic High Learning Farm year one
›› Lauren Gaultier
After many years of planning, the Vic High Learning Farm was a joint initiative prompted when a former faculty member reached out to Aaren Topley, Capital Region’s Community […]
The Mayor is still from Fernwood
Following her re-election as Mayor of Victoria, the Village Vibe caught up with Lisa Helps in her office to hear her reflections on the previous term and her goals for […]