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A huge thank you to all our community and corporate partners running CaringKids Toy Drives in their businesses and workplaces this year!

BGIS have kicked off their Giving Tree toy drive for 2024. The generosity of their staff, clients and vendors has been amazing to see.

The Giving Tree started with BGIS in
Canberra in 2019 and is now an annual charitable drive with over 1000 gifts donated last year to multiple charities!

We are so excited to be partnering
with BGIS again this year in their NSW, QLD and ACT offices.

Last year the BGIS team broke the record for toys donated and Joy Boxes made, and they rolled up their sleeves packing as much fun as they could in every box!

BGIS make an amazing difference and contribution to CaringKids and we thank them for their ongoing support 🫶🎄 🎁 #bgis #spreadthejoy #youngcarers #caringkids

A huge thanks and hello to our supporters the Leo Club of Kenmore State High School Brisbane! They have generously donated $1000 to create Joy Boxes for young carers, via the @lionsaustralia ‘Lions in Support of CaringKids Charity Project’.

Kenmore State High School is situated in the western suburbs of Brisbane and the Leo Club was established in 1999.

The Leos are part of the School and an arm of the Lions Club of Brisbane West.

This year the Leos raised funds from a variety of initiatives,including sausage sizzles, pancake breakfasts, bake sales, school sleep outs and movie days.

Consisting of students across each year level, the Leos have been centred on community endeavours, so they are proud to have contributed to CaringKids charity for the year.

We thank the Leo Club of Kenmore State High School for their outstanding achievement and service raising and donating $1000 to provide Joy Boxes to children caring for family members living with a disability or illness. 🥇 🦁 @kenmoreshs @lionsbrisbanewest @lionsclubs #weserve #caringkids #spreadthejoy #youngcarers

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Community Bank Clovelly are hosting a Giving Tree in support of local charities this Christmas. It is the fourth Christmas in a row that Nicola Powell Community Partnership Manager has invited CaringKids to be part of this beautiful community initiative.

Every year we are overwhelmed with the kindness and generosity of everyone that gets involved, including the many sporting clubs in the area.

Thank you Nicola, and to all the generous, kind donors and sporting clubs who leave gifts for local charities to collect under the tree every year 🎁 🙏

The annual Scentre Group Westfield Local Heroes Award identifies people in the community making a difference, and supports their cause with a financial contribution and ongoing support.

CaringKids founder Margaret Skagias is a 2020 Westfield Local Heroes Award Alumni. This Award was given in recognition of her work bringing joy to young carers at CaringKids.

Westfield staff across all centres create and lead centre based events and activities that help local charities like CaringKids to achieve our goals. It’s this partnership that continues to grow many years after the Award is received that makes the Local Heroes Award program unique and effective at creating lasting change.

At a recent Scentre Group Marketing and Community Team 2025 Planning Day, Margaret was invited to share the story behind and the impact of the Local Heroes Award for CaringKids. Nominated by a Local Hero Award Alumni Sarah Mross, Margaret explained how this nomination allowed her to highlight the experience of young carers and was the catalyst for CaringKids to grow and support 2000 young carers across Australia to date.

Margaret shared some insight into how the program also encourages current and past Local Heroes to come together to help one another, partner to deliver services, share donations and knowledge, and give support.

The Scentre Group Marketing and Community Team created 200 Stationery packs for CaringKids during the event, comprising of new Officeworks stationery, finishing each pack with a handwritten note of encouragement for young carers.

Thank you Scentre Group for providing your support to CaringKids and the hundreds of charities across Australia who are part of your Local Heroes Award program. We continue to reach more young carers each year, with the Westfield Eastgardens team behind us very step of the way.

Nominations are open now for the 2025 Local Heroes Award, if you know someone in your community making a difference, visit https://www.westfield.com.au/local-heroes to nominate them and be part of making a difference in your community.

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Good360 donates 10 pallets of toys to CaringKids!! 🧸 🧸 🧸

We are excited to receive $130,000 worth of brand new Hasbro toys from @good360au

10 pallets of toys including board games were delivered to our storage @storage_king Easrgardens to fill our boxes with JOY.

Brands include Play-Dough, Playskool, Beyblade, My Little Pony, Nerf, MARVEL, Peppa Pig, Monopoly, Star Wars and more.

These toys will be making their way into our Joy Boxes and shipped to the doorstep of kids with caring responsibilities. Good360 are connectors. They connect charities, schools and society’s most vulnerable with businesses willing to donate unsold or surplus goods, services and disaster recovery essentials.

Their mission is to ensure the excess goods and services businesses produce every year flow to people in need rather than going to waste.

The result is a Circle of Good that reduces need and waste in our communities at the same time so everyone benefits – from people to the planet 🌍

Find out more about Good360.and the Good360 Australia – Circle of Good @good360au

Thank you to our @lionsaustralia Lions Clubs supporters (over 100 Lions and Leo’s clubs) for donating funds to cover the cost of securing the 10 pallets for CaringKids via the National Lions in support of CaringKids Charity project 🦁 and to all our friends @storage_king Eastgardens Christina, Alex, Jelena and Paul for helping us receive and store this very special delivery! 🥇 📦 🚚