This term’s fundraising is centred around collecting food items for community-based Christmas hampers. Each week there will be a new category for the donations. This week we have been collecting pasta and rice, both plain and in premixed packets. Next week, we will be collecting boxes of breakfast cereal. Below is a list of the other items we will be collecting on a week-by-week basis, but we are open to receiving them at any time!

Food for thought… making a donation each week would cost less money than purchasing a cup of barista coffee each week!

For all items, please check that expiry dates extend into 2020. Thanks!

Week 1- tinned food

Week 2- pasta and rice (in plastic packets or boxes, could also be premixes or 2 Minute noodles etc.)

Week 3- breakfast cereal

Week 4- spreads, condiments, dressings, sauces (such as Vegemite, jams, honey, peanut butter, barbecue sauce, tomato sauce, pasta sauce, mayonnaise, salad dressing etc.)

Week 5 – biscuits (in boxes or packets, sweet or savoury)

Week 6- drinks (juice in boxes or plastic, tea, coffee, Milo etc.)

Week 7 – treat foods for Christmas (chips, lollies, Christmas biscuits or puddings, long life custard, cranberry sauce, chocolates, Christmas crackers etc.)

At the end of Week 8, all of the items that we have collected will be delivered to the community groups that will be preparing the Christmas hampers. As this collection coincides with the initiation of a Mini Vinnies group at our school, some of what we collect will be going to St Vincent de Paul in Young. Please be aware that St Vincent de Paul in Young also services clients in Grenfell.

If you know of a family in need of a helping hand of any kind, including a Christmas hamper, please be sure to make them aware that this service is available to them.

Current tally of food collected

Tinned food - 61

Pasta and rice - 20

Clearly, we are big at heart even though we are small in number. Keep up the great work everyone!

Many Blessings,