Brisbane Basket Brigade

"It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving".
A recognition post to our tireless committee who step up every year as passionate volunteers keeping the giving alive! And our amazing volunteers who participate in our large scale events with a bucket-load of elbow grease! We are in continuous awe of the power of giving and the lengths our volunteers go to.
OUR VOLUNTEERS ROCK!!!

To all our amazing Volunteers across all the Magic Moments Foundation Programs - the Basket Brigades, the Grandies Gifting Program and the Youth Programs, Happy International Women's Day!
Your dedication and commitment to our programs outcomes helps to create Magic Moments all through the year. We thank you and are grateful for you on this day, and the other 365 days in this year!

Some of our community volunteers from Saturday 9/12, can you spot yourself in these pics? 😍
What an amazing day wrapping gifts, sorting food and packing hampers! Eight committee members volunteering for 6 months around paid work and family commitments were able to rally our amazing Basket Buddy community, Corporate and Community Day volunteers and Delivery Drivers to donate and volunteer to provide almost 1,000 families with childrens gifts and food hampers. You even provided several hundred bags of food for individuals and families forced to live in tents.
MERRY CHRISTMAS BRISBANE and thank you so much for your support!!❤️
Andy, Bridgette, Jan, Lyn, Margot, Paul, Steve, Teresa
The 2023 Brisbane Basket Brigade Committee

We're all packed out at our Southside location. No more deliveriy drivers are required from All Hallows today. Put your feet up.
Thanks to our dispatch crew for showing up early and getting gifts on the road so quickly.

Southside deliveries will dispatch from All Hallows tomorrow. Enter via Ann Street and follow the signs.

Attn afternoon Community Volunteers. Our Corporate & Community groups have been in overdrive this morning and smashed through wrapping & packing. If you need the afternoon off, feel free to do so & you'll be with us in spirit.
We only need about 50 people this afternoon to help with final dispatch coordination.

SipnSnack will be on site for our Corporate and Community Packing Days this Friday and Saturday keeping everyone caffeinated.

Attention Basket Buddies: Our final basket drop off location it as our main packing venue at BALD HILLS.

📆 Friday, 8 December
🕙 9.00am – 4.30pm
OR
📆 Saturday, 9 December
🕙 9.00am – 12.30pm

📍 St Paul's School - Walker Centre, 34 Strathpine Rd, Bald Hills

Still plenty of opportunities to get involved in our Delivery Driver program this Sunday. Come & join the fun & help those who need it most.

🎅 Who wants to play Santa? 🤶

The bags are packed, the presents are wrapped and sorted and now we need some Brisbane sleighs to deliver our Christmas baskets anonymously to our Brisbane recipients, and of course some elves to load them.

Drivers and dispatch crew are needed on Sunday, 10 December for Brisbane North and South deliveries dispatching from Bald Hills and Brisbane CBD. Find out more and register here - https://www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com/community-delivery-drivers

🎅 Who wants to play Santa? 🤶

The bags are packed, the presents are wrapped and sorted and now we need some Brisbane sleighs to deliver our Christmas baskets anonymously to our Brisbane recipients, and of course some elves to load them.

Drivers and dispatch crew are needed on Sunday, 10 December for Brisbane North and South deliveries dispatching from Bald Hills and Brisbane CBD. Find out more and register here - https://www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com/community-delivery-drivers

Attention Basket Buddies: Drop Off Locations

If you’re unable to deliver directly to our main packing venue at BALD HILLS next weekend, we’ve got an alternate drop location available tomorrow for registration.

📆 Saturday 2 December
🕙 10am – 12pm
📍 NATIONAL STORAGE, 469 OLD CLEVELAND ROAD, CAMP HILL

This week, compliments of Sci-Fleet Toyota at Kedron, Santa's sleigh has taken on the guise of a ute, filled here to the brim with generous donations from Ascot State School. It really does take a community!

Giving Tuesday is here!

🏭🎁This year NATIONAL STORAGE, Camp Hill have kindly offered their site as an additional drop-off point for Giving Tuesday. Drop off your baskets today, 28 November between 10:30am and 3:30pm. 🏭🎁

Register here for drop offs today at NATIONAL STORAGE, 469 OLD CLEVELAND ROAD, CAMP HILL - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf878TlDfuwmLyL-HizaSQ2RoNPQlr_7jOrE4zvGPoKRtJKzg/viewform

We only have a few volunteers available to relocate your bags to our storage unit, registrations help us estimate bag numbers. 🏋️‍♂️

Giving Tuesday, 28 November 2023 - Drop off at National Storage, CAMP HILL Tuesday 28 November 2023 - Please provide an indication of what you will dropping into NATIONAL STORAGE, 469 OLD CLEVELAND ROAD, CAMP HILL as we have limited volunteers relocating bags to our storage unit. On arrival, enter the office and we'll be straight through the door on the left.

Attention Basket Buddies: Drop Off Locations are ready to go!

🏫🎁Packing Venue: St Paul's School, Walker Centre (Hall), 34 Strathpine Road, Bald Hills
Friday 8th December, 9:00am to 4:30pm
Saturday 9th December, 9:00am to 2:00pm

If you are delivering to St Paul's School, you don’t need to register your drop off.

🏭🎁Giving Tuesday: NATIONAL STORAGE, 469 Old Cleveland Road, Camp Hill
Tuesday 28th November 2023, 10:30am to 3:30pm

If you are delivering to National storage, you'll need to register* for your preferred time.

🏠🎁Alternate early drop: If you can't make it to the above locations, we have a number of early delivery locations available from 23rd November to 2nd December. You'll need to register* for your preferred location by end of day Tuesday 21st November.

*Registration links can be found in our November newsletter. Check our your email inbox now.

Do you want to contribute to this year's program, but no time to shop? The BBB elves can do the shopping for you!
Using donations we purchase a lot of extra food to ensure we have enough bags for all our recipients. Donate now to put smiles on many faces this Christmas.
https://www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com/donation

Registrations are now open for our Community Wrapping and Packing Day. It's an amazing event, filled with true community and Christmas spirit as we sort, wrap and pack thousands of food baskets and presents ready for delivery. There are lots of roles available on the day and we'd love you to join us. To find out more and register visit https://www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com/community-packing-day

The BBB elves are hard at work and they need your help to spread Christmas cheer through the Basket Buddies food program.
This year there are 3 options to donate: Pantry, Celebration or Homeless. Register now to help put food on the tables of Brisbane's most vulnerable. https://www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com/basket-buddies-2023

It's less than 7 weeks until our packing weekend!! There are still plenty of ways to get involved in our 2023 program. Whether you're an individual, organisation, community group or school, there is something for everyone to have a crack at. To find out more visit our website and register for our newsletter. Or stay tuned here on the official page to get updates direct from the organising committee. https://www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com/who-can-get-involved

BASKET BUDDIES OPENED VIA OUR 1 SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER!
Head to our website to check out all the info
www.brisbanebasketbrigade.com

Brisbane Basket Brigade updated their information in their About section.

If any northside friends are available this afternoon to assist ❤️

Cancel your PT session this afternoon and head down to Nudgee College from 2pm to 4:30pm today. We will have food and gifts arriving today for tomorrows deliveries which we would LOVE some help unloading and setting up. No need to register, no need to stay the entire time, even half an hour of your time would be amazing.
Remember, your doing this for people in need to make their Christmas that little bit brighter, we dont need $$$s but we do need your help!

Heading to our Packing Day today? Or dropping off bags?
Please remember to travel to the VERY END of John Paul Drive to the Markwell Car Park, then simply walk past the boom gate to the Coleman Centre - second building past the boom gate - drive through if you are dropping off (10k speed limit)

Can you smell the coffee?
Ah yes, you can rely on the BBB committee to ensure we have a coffee van at the venue, was there ever any doubt? And the canteen will be open for your Saturday Bunnings sausage hit, we know where you guys usually are on a Saturday. Treats and a choice of drinks are also available to help raise a little cash for JPC Sports.

Our packing long weekend has officially kicked off.

Our amazing corporates have powered through the work today - wrapping, sorting, labelling, accepting deliveries and every conceivable task in between 💙

We can't wait to welcome our community volunteers tomorrow 💙

WOW the baskets are coming in quickly and tonight we'll be contacting the rest of you that completed the google form, however as time is running out to drop off at many of the locations please email us at [email protected] with your preferred location from this list and how many bags you have and we will send you all the details.
Thank you so much for supporting the recipients of the Brisbane Basket Brigade, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 🛷🎄

Drop Off details for our wonderful volunteer contributors were emailed this week in our newsletter 😀 in case you missed it, here's the details.

And the link to the nomination form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQ200m1KtBBhSttLadTCYc91RPmXAR5GucNQ_jl3DIaxde4A/viewform

If you have a BULK SUPPLY OF BASKETS through a CORPORATE OR SCHOOL PROGRAM we LOVE having you on board but please consider if you might be able to deliver to our venue on Corporate Day Friday 9/12 or our Community Day Saturday 10/12 or one of our drop off locations listed above.

We are a small committee of volunteers so we'd REALLY appreciate it if we only collect where absolutely necessary.

If you are able to assist by changing your collection to delivering please email us at [email protected]

Calling all of you budding Santa's out there. Brisbane Basket Brigade needs your help with our Deliveries on Sunday 11th December. You can register here:

Northside: https://events.humanitix.com/brisbane-basket-brigade-2022-community-volunteer-packing-weekend-delivery-drivers-northside

Southside:https://events.humanitix.com/brisbane-basket-brigade-2022-community-volunteer-packing-weekend-delivery-drivers-southside