Almost half way through 2018 and we are already starting to plan for the Christmas Store again. Christmas Store 2017 This was our most successful Christmas event, with 160 families invited and 700 children. Most families left with over $500 worth of groceries but...
Christmas Store On the 23rd of December 2017 we ran our third Christmas Store at Glen Innes School, and invited 160 families and 700 children along. The families were selected by the School Social Worker and the Principal. We had families from Glen Innes, Glen Taylor,...
When Breakfast Club started at Glen Innes School in 2013, we heard that a large number of families at that school do not celebrate Christmas as they can not afford to. Immediately that Christmas, on the 23rd of December we put on a Banquet for 150 people. The...
This Christmas, on the 23rd of December 2015 we are creating a Christmas Store (last Christmas we fed 600 at our Christmas Banquet but we are too large to continue with Banquets)
On the 23rd of December 2015 we are turning the Glen Innes School Hall into a Mini New World and having the Social Workers at our 5 schools invite up to 100 families to come and be blessed with food from Christmas Box Hampers; Hubbard’s Cereal; New World Eastridge Grocers and Hams; Gatting’s Caterers Dessert Hampers.
When we came up with the idea of putting on a Christmas Banquet for 600 … we had no idea how we could find about $9,000 to fund it when this happened …
Due to demand from our two new schools (St. Pius X and Glen Taylor) we will be having lunch as well as the dinner, catering for over 600 children and adults.
On the 23rd of December 2013 we held a Christmas Banquet at Glen Innes School (with 300 people attending) after hearing that a number of the families that attended this school either did not celebrate Christmas with a special meal or went into the City Mission...
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