Sean Casey

Government of Canada funds projects in Charlottetown through the New Horizons for Seniors Program

March 11, 2025

Canadians deserve to age with dignity. That comes down to choice, to affordability, to inclusion, and to community. The New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) creates those opportunities for seniors to be more connected, supported and active members of their communities.

Today, Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown, on behalf of Canada’s Minister for Seniors, Joanne Thompson, announced an investment of up to $187,332 for up to 11 community-based projects in Charlottetown.

These projects will help seniors stay active, informed and socially connected in their community. This funding was awarded through the most recent call for proposals for community-based projects through the New Horizons for Seniors Program.

As part of the 2024–25 NHSP Community-based call for proposals, organizations were encouraged to apply for funding to deliver projects that support the national priorities for this cycle. These included:

supporting healthy aging;
preventing senior abuse;
celebrating diversity and promoting inclusion; and
supporting financial security.

The NHSP funds a wide variety of projects, such as online computer classes, financial literacy and fraud prevention education, meal deliveries, and the purchase of equipment to help keep seniors informed, connected and engaged.

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“Seniors deserve to live life to the fullest as they with dignity. These New Horizons for Seniors Programs will help local seniors stay healthy, social, and connected.”

– Minister of Seniors, Joanne Thompson

“Through the New Horizons for Seniors Program, the Government of Canada is providing a wide range of opportunities for seniors in Charlottetown to participate in meaningful activities where they can share knowledge, skills and experience to the benefit of others.”

– Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown

Quick facts

Seniors are one of Canada’s fastest-growing population groups. They will represent almost 25% of the population by 2057 and could reach close to 11 million people within 15 years.
The New Horizons for Seniors Program Community-based stream invests in projects that help seniors stay active and engaged in their communities. Organizations are eligible to receive up to $25,000 in grant funding.
Program funding supports projects that address one or more of the program’s five objectives: promoting volunteering among seniors and other generations, engaging seniors through the mentoring of others, expanding awareness of elder abuse, supporting social participation and inclusion of seniors and providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and programs for seniors.
Project proposals are targeted to vulnerable senior populations, including Indigenous seniors, seniors with disabilities, members of racialized and newcomer groups, members of 2SLGBTQI+ communities, low-income seniors, veterans, members of official language minority communities and people who primarily speak languages other than English or French.
Since its inception in 2004, the program has funded over 40,000 local projects and broader reaching initiatives in hundreds of communities across Canada with the Government of Canada investing more than $850 million.
Every year, organizations are invited to apply for NHSP Community-based funding through a call for proposals. The projects announced today were approved as part of the 2024–25 call for proposals that was launched on August 1, 2024, and closed on September 12, 2024.