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Collaborate Regionally, Achieve Results Locally

RIEP provides opportunities for communication, community engagement, information-sharing, and collaboration, through initiatives focused on the challenges facing rural island and rural coastal communities today. From the climate crisis and the need for economic resilience, to Reconciliation and the strengthening of BC's social safety net, RIEP’s programs promote regenerative strategies that support the socio-economic health of BC’s rural island and coastal communities.

Fostering Healthy & Vibrant Communities

British Columbia’s rural and remote coastal communities are social and cultural gems. They are home to diverse communities of changemakers, innovators, and creators – local, regional businesses and community-building organizations representing both settler and Indigenous communities, within the traditional territories of the Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw and Coast Salish Nations – from across the Rural Island Communities of Bowen, Broughton Archipelago, Cormorant, Cortes, Denman, Gabriola, Galiano, Gambier, Hornby, Lasqueti, Malcolm, Mayne, Pender, Quadra, Salt Spring, Saturna, Texada, and Thetis & Penelakut islands to the rural, remote coastal communities from Port Hardy and Tofino, to Sayward and Sechelt, to Lady Smith, Sooke and all in- between—seeking to foster healthy, vibrant and resilient coastal communities.