2025 Annual Report-final June 4

125 community festivals and neighbourhood events supported

Volunteering and Community Involvement Creating an engaged and healthy community for residents, businesses, and visitors is a strategic priority for the City of Maple Ridge.

In 2025 the City hosted and supported a number of community events, charities, and initiatives: Community Engagement • Provided funding through the Neighbourhood Small Grant program to 45 block parties and neighbourhood-led projects. • Conducted 25 community engagement surveys. • Fire Services hosted three Hot Summer Nights events. • Hosted Rock the Block events at three new sites across the city. • Hosted the second annual Our Neck of the Woods event at Memorial Peace Park for approximately 20,000 attendees. • Welcomed 1,940 visitors to Food Truck Fridays and Saturday Amphitheatre Concerts at Albion Community Centre. • Social media following grew 25% since 2024. • 1250+ people attended first annual PLAYfest, featuring free family activities in celebration of National Child Day.

Volunteerism and Community Support • Fire Services members donated $20,045 to the Maple Ridge Firefighters Charitable Society. • Collected $10,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada by Fire Services staff who volunteered to bag groceries at local stores and provided cooking services for the Walk/Roll Fundraiser. • Maple Ridge Firefighters charitable society golf tournament collected over $33,000, donating $25,000 to the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation and $10,000 to the BCPFFA Burn Fund. • Raised over $20,000 at the Fire Services’ Boot Drive for Friends in Need food bank and Ridge Meadows Christmas Hamper. • Ridge Meadows RCMP volunteers: contributed over 8,000 hours of public safety education, programming, and support; attended over 60 community events delivering crime prevention safety information; assisted victims of crime and trauma in over 100 different police files. • Connected over 803 volunteers to assist with community led initiatives through our Volunteer Contact Form (46% increase). • Supported 242 volunteers in City-led events (102% increase).

+102% Volunteers at City-led events

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