$10,000 In Grants! What’s the BIG Idea??

Big O Tires is a community-driven auto service group with locations throughout British Columbia. As an independently owned group of stores, our owners and employees are members of their respective communities and care about the health and success of their respective communities. For this reason, BC Big O Tires stores, in cooperation with The Vancouver School Board offer a grant program to schools within the Vancouver School Board jurisdiction, designed to source and help implement new, creative initiatives that will help our communities flourish.

So why introduce a community initiative through schools?

We know that our students are among some of the brightest, most creative and community-conscious of all community members. Supported by their network of teachers and parents, we believe students represent some of the most innovative minds among us. On behalf of all our community members, we are reaching out to our students, asking them to put their thinking caps on and conceptualize practical, innovative and a

ffordable initiatives, based on the needs they perceive in their communities, to tackle some of the challenges our communities face today. Whether those are youth-based initiatives tackling issues like, nutrition or education, for example or broader initiatives that affect all members of the community at large such as homelessness or accessibility, we are asking students to

 come up with ideas that our BC Big O Tires group can help fund and launch that will help make our communities stronger.

We call the program the ‘Big Idea’. And while we anticipate many great ideas being submitted, we’re confident there will be a few that will rise above all the rest, that we can select as our ‘Big Idea’ grant recipients for the 2025/2026 school year.

This year we will be awarding three grants totaling $10,000 to the three Big Ideas we judge to be the best. The top Big Idea grant recipient team will receive $5,000 to put towards their Big Idea. The second place grant recipient team will receive $3,000 and third will earn $2,000 towards their Big Idea! So get those thinking caps on and submit your team’s Big Idea!

Be sure to read our guidelines BEFORE submitting! CLICK HERE

Note: The submissions application page linked to below is password protected and passwords are only made available to faculty members. If you are a faculty member and you have not already received a password from your school, please email bigotiresbcmarketing@gmail.com to receive one.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MAGEE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND KILLARNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL, OUR 2026 BIG O TIRES BIG IDEA GRANT RECIPIENTS!