Community halls are eliminating energy bills with grant-funded upgrades. 

Our Community Halls Are In Trouble 

Every year, your hall fundraises just to keep the heat and lights on.

$5,000
$10,000
Sometimes more.

Money you raise through raffles, bottle drives, and community dinners.

That money should stay in your community. Instead, it keeps the lights on.

Energy costs are rising and volunteers are stretched thin.
Some halls are reducing winter hours, others are closing their doors completely because they can’t afford their energy bills.

You shouldn’t have to choose between staying warm and staying open.

There’s A Model That Works

What if your hall didn’t have to go it alone? 

What if 10 or 12 halls applied together?

When halls apply together, funders see coordinated regional impact, not one-off requests. 

Instead of competing for small grants, your hall becomes part of a coordinated funding submission designed to secure larger support. 

As part of the Spring Cohort of Community Halls Saving Energy, you get:

• A documented path forward

• Lower energy bills

• Fewer emergency repairs

• Year-round comfort

You focus on your community. We focus on the work.

2025 Cohort Results

20 community centres came together in Pictou and applied for funding. 

Together they received $1,350,000 to help all of their halls eliminate energy bills. 

Collectively, they eliminated $115,000 in annual oil and electricity bills. 

One of these community centres, Churchville Hall, received the following upgrades:

Extra Insulation | LED Lighting | Cold-Climate Heat Pumps | Solar Panels

Before the upgrades, the hall couldn’t afford to stay open over the winter months. 

Now they’re operating year-round with a $0 energy bill.

Events are back on. Bills are gone. Fundraising stays in the heart of the community. 

“It was too expensive for us to heat the hall in the winter until we got the solar panels and facility upgrades. Now we have an incredible number of events happening, and it's really been a boon to the community.”

– Doug Fletcher, Community Volunteer

These halls faced the same rising bills and burned-out volunteers. By applying together, they secured funding none of them could have accessed alone.