The Strathcona Community Centre Association’s mission is to sustain, promote and develop a resource that supports the changing social and recreational needs and aspirations of the Strathcona community. Among the services it provides are: licensed childcare and preschool programs; food security program to support local, low-income children and families; and, recreation, social, cultural and educational programs for all ages from babies to seniors. 

At Strathcona Community Centre Association, we fundraise primarily for food security, including our Breakfast and Backpack Programs. 

Our weekday Breakfast Program ensures students and families of Lord Strathcona Elementary (attached to our building) start their school days with a healthy breakfast. We regularly serve on average 250 breakfasts/day. That's 35,000 breakfasts during the school year. Amazing right? Each meal costs about $1.75. 

The Backpack Program, provides food access to families each Friday for 45 weeks a year. We currently have 810 participants from 135 low income families receiving food through our weekly Backpack markets.

Strathcona Community Centre is located in the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, situated in one of Vancouver's oldest residential neighborhoods. Constructed in 1972 through the collaborative effort of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and local residents, the centre is located just east of Chinatown and is connected to Lord Strathcona Elementary School. 

The community centre is jointly operated by Strathcona Community Centre Association (SCCA) and the Vancouver Parks Board.