Sharing The Christmas Spirit
Hamper Program
🎄 Exciting Changes to the
Sharing the Christmas Spirit
Hamper Program! 🎄
2026 Christmas Hamper Program
We are thrilled to announce some exciting changes for the 38th Annual Comox Valley Sharing the Christmas spirit Hamper Program.
This year, we are proud to welcome Comox Valley Dodge as our Title Sponsor. Please join us in welcoming Carson Grant and the entire Comox Valley Dodge team to the sharing the Christmas spirit Hamper program.
This partnership is a natural fit with CVD Cares Toy Drive, Comox Valley Dodge’s established community initiative that helps bring Christmas to more than 250 local children every year. Together, we’re looking forward to making an even bigger impact in our community this Christmas season. ❤️🎄
📍 Hamper Registration & Warehouse
Our warehouse will be located at the back of Comox Valley Dodge, 278 Island Hwy N.
This is where you will:
• Pick up hamper totes
• Drop off completed hampers
Registration opens October 15th.
📞 Registration: 250-465-0738
🎟️ Raffle & 50/50
Our online raffle and 50/50 are currently being organized.
Tickets will be available beginning October 1st. Watch for the link to purchase your tickets and support this incredible community program!
💃 10th Annual Fundraiser Dance
Join us for our 10th Annual Fundraiser Dance on:
📅 Saturday, November 28th
📍 Filberg Hall – Upstairs
⏰ 7:00 PM – Midnight
Featuring Monday’s Gone Live Band, along with a Silent Auction and 50/50!
Watch for the ticket release date.
🎁 Donate to Our Silent Auction or Raffle
If you would like to donate an item or service to our Silent Auction or Raffle, please contact:
Annette — 250-897-6857 (tel:250-897-6857)
🙋 Volunteers Needed
We are looking for volunteers to help in our warehouse and with registration.
Warehouse Volunteers:
Please contact Ken at 250-335-0002 (tel:250-335-0002)
Registration Office Volunteers:
We are looking for volunteers to assist with registration from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM and 12:00 PM–4:00 PM beginning October 15th.
Please contact Annette at 250-897-6857 (tel:250-897-6857) if you can help and would like to volunteer.
❤️ 38 years of bringing Christmas to families in the Comox Valley!
We are incredibly excited about this year’s changes and the opportunity to work alongside Comox Valley Dodge and CVD Cares to make Christmas a little brighter for local families and children.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support this amazing community tradition.
🎄 Together, we can make Christmas brighter for families across the Comox Valley.
About Us
Our program was started in 1988 and continues to provide food hampers to more than 500 needy families in the Comox Valley, BC.
Each one of our hampers consists of 21 different non-perishable items as well as perishable items, including a complete turkey dinner for the family as well as a toy or gift for each child in the family. We accept registrations from individuals and families that are in need of a hamper, we then sponsor that family out to either a school, business and/or individual that have generously registered with our program to make a hamper for a specific family or individual.
Supporting The Comox Valley, British Columbia
Our program supports families in need across the Comox Valley, from Black Creek to Fanny Bay.
Sponsor A Family
Here’s your chance to give back to the community that has given us so much. With more than 500 families supported annually, your donation can make a huge difference for a family in need this Christmas.
Serving the Comox Valley since 1988
Our Story
Preamble:
Our non-profit charity, through funding/sponsors, donates in excess of $100,000 worth of food every Christmas for over 500
of the neediest families in our community—the majority of whom live in Courtenay. This just shows the incredible community
support we have, year after year, having garnered respect and appreciation for helping the needy at this special time of year.
History:
The program was initially started by Tucky Schellinck, whose husband was the first (?) principal of Vanier Secondary High
School. She did the program out of the basement of her home 7/24, 365…When she no longer was able to, my
predecessors at Block Bros. in 1989, took the concept and turned it into a once-a-year Christmas time hamper program. The
program was subsequently run through the administration of Coast Realty and most recently, Royal LePage (RLP). In the last
few years, we’ve provided hampers to 100 singles, and 450 families, for a total of 550 recipients each year at Christmas.
Process:
At the beginning of November, we open up the “Hamper Hotline” phones whereby families and individuals in need may, in
confidence, ask to be put on our list of hamper recipients. As well, sponsors phone in to offer to take on one (or more)
families, or in some cases, money or goods/services in kind. We have close to 1300 snap-lid totes, which we
provide—minimum 2 per family–to sponsors to use to fill with the pre-established list of 21 dry goods, prezzies for the kids,
plus $45 (per family) they provide us separately, used to purchase fixin’s—turkey, milk, veggies, fruit– for Christmas dinner.
In Conclusion:
We always leave the donated space at least as clean as provided, usually cleaner. Many of our core volunteers—some
who’ve been involved since the beginning!!!—are very dedicated and current or ex-military, so the whole operation is
organized, systematic, efficient, and always with the awareness of whom the main beneficiaries are: 550+/- needy families.
Sponsor A Family
RAFFLE 2025 AND 50/50 Online
Coming soon 2025 Raffle which will be online Raffle Nexus and for sale as of October 1st.
Great prizes this year, Westjet Gift of Flight, Kingfisher resort, Crown Mansion Boutique Hotel, Locals Restaurant, 2025/2026 Canucks Game tickets, Gift Basket with 10 $100 Gift cards, Costco Gift Certificate. and more to follow.....
Corporate Sponsors 2025
