Coast2Bay Housing Group’s & Mix FM’s annual Christmas Appeal is back! Coast2Bay provides homes to vulnerable families from Moreton Bay to Gympie – and many families simply cannot afford gifts for their children this year. Across our homes there are over 500 children we want to ensure wake up to a special present on Christmas morning. So, we would love your help!
Our toy and gift drive ensures every child receives a gift for Christmas and memories to treasure. If you can help share some Christmas magic we invite you to donate now – there are 3 easy ways!
1) Drop a gift into our office
Just bring your gift to the Mix FM studio or Coast2Bay Office Monday-Friday between 9am-4pm. We’re both located in the Kon-Tiki Business Centre at 55 Plaza Pde, Maroochydore.
2) Donate online – we’ll use the funds to purchase Gift Cards for our tweens and teens.
Over half of the children living in a Coast2Bay home are tweens or teens! They’ve told us they love to shop for themselves and pick their own presents – it’s half the fun! If you’d like us to put a Gift Card under the tree, you can donate through our Give Now form below and we’ll purchase teen specific gift cards.
You’ll be redirected to Coast2Bay’s Simply Giving page where you can buy age-appropriate gifts online – they will deliver us the presents and we will do the rest! Buy a toy now.
Donation Guidelines:
- Don’t wrap your gifts! Please gift bag them if you can, or we will do that.
- Donations must arrive in time for Santa to get to families so please donate as soon as possible, last gifts to be received by Friday 6th December.
- Your donation may be the only present a child gets, so please donate new items only.
- We have close to 200 teenagers, so please consider giving a gift card for clothing, games, movies, sports gear or something age appropriate.
Not sure you have time to deliver a gift?
Take a look at the online giving site or provide a cash donation to our charity through the links above.
Want to purchase a gift and need some inspiration?
We asked our parents what’s on their kid’s Santa lists and some of the most requested items include:
- Lego sets (for young and older kids).
- Fishing and outdoor sports equipment.
- Barbie, Hot Wheels, Squishmellows and Paw Patrol are popular for the younger kids.
- Make-up vouchers
- Drawing, arts and craft supplies
- Monster Trucks and RC cars
Thank you for your support – there will be a lot of happy faces on Christmas morning, and your generosity and kindness will have made this possible.