This Christmas, we can show the love of Jesus through practical assistance, providing food hampers and gifts that have been packed with love.
Each year we distribute hampers to congregations so that they can be given to people who are finding life difficult and need a helping hand. We want the hampers to help create opportunities for you to connect with people in your community and show love in a practical way. The hampers contain food and gifts and each year they are given as an expression of Jesus’ love, letting people know that we are thinking of them at the time of our great Saviour’s birth.
Contribute to Hampers
Donate funds
To be able to provide hampers outside of Sydney, we need funds. If you’d like to assist us with this and enable our regional churches to bless their local areas in this way, please donate funds to the project. To donate, click the button below and choose the option “Packed with Love Hampers” as the purpose of donation.
Donate goods
We will be collecting food items and gift items to be packed into the hampers. If you think your church would be able to contribute, we’d love to hear from you.
Below are approximate numbers for what we need. As churches inform us of what they plan to collect, these numbers are updated! Sort the items using the arrows to see what we still need the most!
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ITEM
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#
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Christmas Treats
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104
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Chip Packets
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164
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Tinned / Dried Fruit
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90
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Savoury Biscuits
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51
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You must confirm a time and date for drop off to ensure someone is available to assist you.
Drop off locations include:
- Allowah, in Dundas Valley (2117)
- Kingsgrove (2208)
- Toongabbie (2146)
- Macquarie Chapel, in Marsfield (2122)
Uncounted goods are needed by Thu 21st Nov
Counted goods are needed by Fri 29th Nov
Final numbers must be communicated to Elissa by Fri 22nd Nov so we have time to source remaining items.
There are several drop-off locations around Sydney, we might also be able to arrange to pick up goods from you. Get in touch to arrange drop-off or pick-up but clicking the button below.
It would be really helpful for our team if you could double-check that all your donations are undamaged and in-date (not expiring or best-before 01/02/2025).
If you are able to count the number of each type of item and let us know, that’d also save us a lot of time when figuring out if we have enough. (For example: “Rice – 17 bags, Cereal – 12 boxes” or “250 x canned fish”)
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Click HereVolunteer your Help
Help pack hampers and gifts
Once we’ve collected all the goods and finalised our list of recipients, we hold a big packing weekend. It’s a huge task to put together the food boxes and allocate gift items, so we’d love all the help we can get! There’s all sorts of jobs that need doing, such as labelling boxes, sorting items, selecting gifts, taping hampers, and more!
If you’re in Sydney and are willing and able to join us at the packing location at Macquarie Chapel Presbyterian Church at some point during the packing week, we’d love your help. Packing will take place from Friday 29th Nov to Thursday 5th Dec 2024. At various points throughout that week, there will be plenty of things to do to put together the hampers and gifts.
until we begin packing!
Help transport and deliver
At the end of the packing process, we’re left with stacks of food boxes and gifts that need to be taken to various places and churches for distribution. It you’ve got a large car or trailer, and a bit of free time, we’d love your help to get the hampers where they need to go. Fuel costs will be covered.
We aim to have all hampers and gifts delivered or collected by 5th-6th December 2024. If you’re interested in helping out, get in touch with the team.
WHAT ITEMS CAN BE DONATED?
Food items
Choose an item that you’d like to collect and let us know how many you’re aiming to get – this helps us plan amounts!
Drop off locations include:
- Allowah, in Dundas Valley (2117)
- Kingsgrove (2208)
- Macquarie Chapel, in Marsfield (2122)
GIFT items
A small gift will be given in the hampers, and we try to provide a gift for every child and teen based on age and gender.
Please leave the gifts unwrapped so we can see what it is.
Click on the category to see some suggested items for each age group:
- colouring pencils
- ball
- activity book
- doll
- soft toy
- blocks
- hat
- or similar!
- board game
- sporting equipment
- book
- pencil case
- stationary
- skipping rope
- craft kit
- or similar!
- watch
- USB drive
- drink bottle
- book
- art set
- sporting equipment
- bag or backpack
- puzzles
- sunglasses
- or similar!
- personal care items
- stationary
- candle
- sunglasses
- drink bottle
- earphones
- socks
- or similar!
Want to get involved?
Contact the us at partnerministries@jerichoroad.org.au.
Cut-off dates:
Nominations: Mon 14th Oct 2024
Drop-off of Contributions: Wed 20th Nov 2024
Volunteer Sign-up: Wed 27th Nov 2024
Hamper Pick-Up: Sat 7th Dec 2024