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.
AIA Insurance APA Group 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 Capalaba Sports Club Ladies Bowling 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 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 2022-2024 ongoing Myer Upper Mt Gravatt Myhorizon Wynnum Mudflat Toys National Seniors Australia: Coorparoo Norbar Torque Tools Ltd Rocklea NOW Business Building Community
Officeworks Make a Difference Appeal 2023 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
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 Nappy Collective 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,
🧶Hair accessories, fabric, knitted or crocheted hearts & stress balls
✂️ BAG SIZES
• Bag drawstrings will be crocheted and threaded by our on-site crafting team.
• All bags have a 3cm casing, with drawstring openings on both sides.
✂️Cut fabric to the following sizes:
✂️ Jewellery bags & Sanitary bags: 15cm X 18cm
✂️ Pencil Cases: approx 35cm – Long enough to comfortably take a 30cm ruler (We have zips if you need them.)
✂️Toiletries bags 24x40cm
✂️ Activity & Toy bags 36cm X 47cm (no inside pockets)
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, stationery/activity packs, and toys / book separately within the back packs.
BAG SIZES:
• All bags have a 3cm casing, with drawstring openings on both sides. Use a 1.5cm seam allowance.
✂️Cut fabric to the following suggested sizes:
✂️ Jewellery bags & Sanitary bags: 15cm X 18cm
✂️ Pencil Cases: approx 35cm – Long enough to comfortably take a 30cm ruler (We have zips if you need them.)
✂️Toiletries bags 24x40cm
✂️ Activity & Toy bags 36cm X 47cm (no inside pockets)
If bag sizes vary slightly, that’s ok – we can still use them.
