Prince Edward Island

Community Service Bursary

Easy application

Tax filing not required

If you are an Island student in grade 10, 11 or 12 and planning to attend any post-secondary institution, you may receive a Community Service Bursary in recognition of your volunteer work.

You can log volunteer hours from the completion of Grade 9 until June 30 of your Grade 12 year. You may place your bursary on hold for one academic year.

The Community Service Bursary has no cash value and is not transferable. It will be credited to your post-secondary account in November of the year following your high school graduation.

The maximum value of the bursary is $1,500, calculated at a rate of $10 per volunteer hour. You are required to volunteer a minimum 30 hours, up to a maximum 150 hours.  (For example, 30 hours = $300 and 150 hours = $1500).

You will be issued a T4A slip for this bursary.

All PEI residents in grade 10, 11, and 12 who are a Canadian or a Permanent Resident are eligible for the Community Service Bursary.

The program aims to provide students with an opportunity to develop new skills and make a meaningful contribution to a registered volunteer organization and its goals. Acceptable volunteer activities would include the following examples (but are not limited to):

  • Coaching, tutoring, or mentoring children in sports, at a library, at a camp, at a church, or at an after-school program;
  • Labour assistance (packing, stocking, organizing, serving, or moving items for a food program, for special events, or for festivals);
  • Office assistance (filing, photocopying, typing, creating or editing social media);
  • Providing information and answering questions at an information desk;
  • Conservation (making trails, planting trees, beach clean-up, restore wildlife habitat, removing invasive species, carrying equipment, water collection);
  • Holding a youth position on a board or council.

Social Insurance Number

For example:

  • confirmation of SIN letter
  • plastic SIN card (non-expired)

To register for the Community Service Bursary:

  1. Contact an organization from the list of organizations registered in the Community Services program. (List of Registered Organizations)
  2. Submit a completed Community Service Bursary Student Registration Form and confirm your post secondary information.
  3. Once you complete the required hours, ensure your organizations submits your hours by emailing [email protected] with the Volunteer Hours Record.
  4. Once you know the post-secondary institution you will be attending, complete the Post-Secondary Information form-information#/service/GenericWebformSubmission/GenericWebformGenerateTransactionID

You will need your social insurance number and current mailing address for your T4A slip to be issued.

Your post secondary student ID # is needed to make payment to your school account.

Contact

For more information on the Community Service Bursary contact:

Student Financial Services

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 2000
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 7N8

Office Location

176 Great George St., Suite 212
Charlottetown, PE
Telephone: (902) 368-4604
Email: [email protected]

Last updated: November 13, 2024