Care Kits supporters are you,
our Community.
Our Partners & Sponsors
Ongoing community support is vital for our volunteers to keep providing Care Kits to the many children who need them.
In just the first 6 months of 2023 we, together with our community, partners and sponsors, supplied more than 2,000 Care Kits to more than 2,000 Qld children in need.
Many thanks go to the amazing, generous and caring people in many organisations and businesses across all sectors of our community who have donated backpacks, end of stock, clothing, toiletries, toys, books, quilts, wraps and accessories, fabric, sewing needs, transport, Donation Points, and Financial Support.
💕THANK YOU 💕
to all those listed below for having Made a Difference, in past years or ongoing, in the lives of children in need who received our Care Kits.
Balmoral SHS Duke of Edinburgh Award Community Service 2020 Bayside Website Design (2023) Belmont Ladies Bowls Blenners Transport BMD Group (2023) Brass Music Specialists Brisbane Broncos (2023) Brisbane New Civitas Lions Club Branch Bulimba Community Centre Bunnings Cannon Hill Cannon Hill Anglican College Care Kits Crafters Camp Hill Care Kits Crafters Enoggera Carina Men’s Shed Centurion Transport Chapel Hill Uniting Church Civic Solutions (2023/24) Club Southside CKC Haulage Commonwealth Bank southside branches CommBank Staff Foundation (2021, 2022) Containers for Change – our ID is C10485999 Connected Inc (2022) Crawford Crash Repairs Do-Op Shop Easts Leagues Club (2024) Echidna Sewing Fielders Craft Group Followmont Transport Fresh Fields Halcyon The Greens Crafting community Health through Fitness Hutchinson Builders staff (2019) I’m So Happy In Stitches Brisbane (2018-2023) Inner Wheel Australia: Wishart, Brisbane West
i-ROCKER JAL Dance Kaje Carriers Pty Ltd Kedron Wavell Services Club (2022) Kiwanis Lions Club of Brisbane Camp Hill Carindale Lions Club of Brisbane Holland Park Lions Club of MacGregor Lions Club of Pinelands Linfox Living Church Macquarie Group Foundation (2023) Master Hire Myer Upper Mt Gravatt (FY2025) Myhorizon Wynnum Mudflat Toys National Seniors Australia: Coorparoo Norbar Torque Tools Ltd Rocklea North Shore Sewing Circle NOW Business Building Community
Officeworks Make a Difference Appeal 2023 Older Womens Network (OWN) Palm Lake Resort Carindale Partners of Veterans Association of Australia Caboolture Penske Australia & New Zealand Wacol Probus Project Linus Qld Lutheran Early Childhood Services Queensland Line Dancing Assoc Inc (2023) Quota Carindale RACQ
The Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc team has been recognised through Awards, and are very grateful to be partially funded by occasional Grants and generous donations:
FINALIST Westfield Local Hero 2024 – Stephanie Hinrichs representing Care Kits for Kids Qld. Voting results announced 15 Sep WINNER: Queensland Volunteering Impact Award (2024)
Presented in recognition of a community volunteering program or activity that has made a positive, measurable and sustainable social and/or economic impact on the Queensland community.
Queensland Community Achievement Awards
WINNER: QLD Family and Child Commission Dedicated to Supporting Young Queenslanders Award (2023)
The Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC) upholds a set of fundamental beliefs that underpin our commitment to supporting young Queenslanders. Established in 2014, the QFCC believes in promoting the safety, well-being, and best interests of children and young people, as well as the crucial roles of families and communities in protection and care. By sponsoring the Dedicated to Supporting Young Queenslanders Award, the QFCC further reinforces these beliefs by recognizing and celebrating individuals or organisations that share our vision and actively work towards empowering and uplifting young Queenslanders. This Award serves as a testament to the unwavering commitment to fostering a supportive environment for the growth and development of young people throughout the state.
FINALIST: Bendigo Bank Community Group of the Year Award (2023, 2022)
With a presence across cities, regions and remote areas, Bendigo Bank strives to support and be a part of the communities in which it operates. The Bendigo Bank Community Group of the Year Award recognises groups, organisations and not for profits that share a strong sense of team spirit and play a vital role in enhancing meaningful connections and social wellbeing in their community.
Whether it be working on an event, project, initiative, providing a service or program, support or any type of community activity, the award will recognise groups, organisations and not for profits that bring people together, by providing support programs and services, connection and engagement programs and encouraging inclusion for all members of the community.
It is important to recognise and celebrate these groups, as their efforts help to make strong and vibrant communities, which is a benefit to us all. FINALIST: Queensland Community Volunteering Program Impact Award 2023
Presented in recognition of a community volunteering program or activity that has made a positive, measurable and sustainable social and/or economic impact on the Queensland community.
Lord Mayors Charitable Trust Grants (2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021)
Easts Leagues Foundation – Community Benefit Fund (2024)
JAL Dance for a Difference Concert (2024)
Griffith Volunteer Grant – Max Chandler-Mather MP (2024)
Officeworks Make A Difference Appeal (June 2023)
Civic Solutions Grant (2023)
Club Southside Grants (2023)
Macquarie Group Foundation Grant (2023)
Brisbane Broncos Charity Fund Grant (2023)
Griffith Stronger Communities Grant – Max Chandler-Mather MP (2023)
Qld Line Dance Association (2023)
BMD Community Assistance Grant (2023)
Children’s Week Grant – Children’s Rights Queensland (2023, 2022)
Trefoil Guild Qld 2022/23
CommBank Staff Foundation Grants 2021 / 2022
Kedron Wavell Services Inc Community Grant 2022
HIGHLY COMMENDED WasteSMART Community Award 2022
FINALIST Outstanding WasteSMART Award,
FINALIST People’s Choice WasteSMART Award (2021)
Lord Mayor’s Community Fund Grants (2022, 2021, 2019)
Westfield Carindale Local Heroes Award Finalist Grant (2022)
Westfund Sponsorship Grant (2021)
Bonner Volunteer Awards (Community Groups)
Finalist in Australia Pacific LNG Community Hero Award (2021)
Electorate Queensland Day Award (2020) from Hon Di Farmer MP, Queensland’s Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women and Minister for Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence – Chris Rafter (President) representing the Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc. team (2022, 2020)
RACQ Local Sponsorship Grant (2020)
Electorate Volunteers Grant from Terri Butler MP (2020)
Finalist in Waste Smart Brisbane Awards: Chris Rafter (President) representing the Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc. team (2020)
Bonner Local Legend Award to Chris Rafter (President) representing the Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc. team (2020)4
Richers Transport Rocky’s Own Transport_Centurion Rotary Sewing for Charity Australia Southside Community Craft Circle Share the Dignity Shift Buddies Small Steps for Hannah St Peter’s Community Hub Suncorp The Christian Church The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Trust The Lord Mayor’s Community Fund The Quiltmakers @ Peppermint Stitches The Sit Down Comedy Club The Village Coorparoo Craft Group Trefoil Guild (2022-23) Two Green Zebras West Arana Hills Old Boys Association (WAHOBA) (2022) Westfield Carindale Westfund Visy Wards Transport White Lady Funerals Wild Republic
Will you help support our Care Kits by volunteering, financially,
or in provision and donation of
backpacks, contents, quilts, wraps or transport?
Hand crafted stuffed pocket hearts can be sewn, as unique as each child who receives one!
What We Do - Who We Help
🧵 Can you SEW or CRAFT? 🧶
🧶 Our sewing and crafting groups use donated fabric and yarn in the #waronwaste to create:
🧶 childrens clothes – babies to teens,
🧶 toys,
pencil cases 35x15cm; zipped,
hair accessories,
🧶 toy bags 34x43cm,
🧶 toiletries bags 22x36cm,
🧶 education bags 32x43cm with a 15x20cm pocket inside,
🧶 fabric, knitted or crocheted stress balls or hearts
Beginners welcome.
Sewing machines, overlockers, precut fabric, yarn etc supplied.
Cost $2 for morning tea.
BYO smiles!
Contact us for further information or just turn up!
Can you sew simple drawstring fabric BAGS?
Larger scraps of donated fabric are used to sew fabric drawstring bags to contain the clothing, toiletries, education supplies, and toys / book separately within the back packs.
We can add these if required.
(NO rubber backed curtain material).
