ANGEL TREES

The Angel Tree program helps stock the SOS Toy Shop. Starting in November 2022, visit a local participating business and you’ll discover an SOS Angel Tree. The gifts listed on these Angels have been identified as “that one special gift” that a child or youth is hoping for. Purchase the gift listed on one of the Angel ornaments (or as close to it as possible), attach the Angel to your unwrapped gift and return it to the business location or to the SOS Community Services Centre in Parksville to ensure it is included in the gift distribution. Please click here for a list of participating Angel Tree businesses (2023).

TO DONATE

Financial donations

Thank you for bringing joy to local residents this Christmas! Click on this link to make a donation with your credit card.

Alternatively, call 250-248-2093 during office hours (Monday-Friday 8:30 am -4:30 pm, closed for lunch from 12 pm -1 pm), or come by the SOS Community Services Centre in Parksville during those hours, located at 245 West Hirst Avenue in Parksville. For your convenience, tax receipts for financial donations can be mailed, or we can issue the receipt at the time of donation drop-off.

Toy and Gift donations

Thank you for your support! Please check back in November 2022.

REGISTRATION

Please remember to bring:

• Photo ID for each adult (19 yrs+)
• Proof of residency
• Birth Certificates, Passports or Care Cards for children
• Proof of income from previous month,
  such as a bank statement or government-issued document

(Click here for examples of acceptable Photo ID)

VOLUNTEER AND SUPPORT 

The deadline to apply to volunteer for the 2024 Christmas season is late October. For more information call 250-248-2093 ext. 230 or click here.

Here are 5 ways to support the program including hosting your own fundraiser with the proceeds coming to SOS to support families and individuals in need through the holidays. Click here to learn more about Community Fundraising. 

2023 COMMUNITY EVENTS THAT BENEFITTED THE PROGRAM

• Tigh-Na-Mara Toy Drive Breakfast. Bring  a new, unwrapped gift, gift card or cash donation Monday – Friday, Nov. 1 – Nov. 23, 2021 and receive a free traditional breakfast. Or purchase a traditional breakfast during this time, and $10 of every meal will be donated to the SOS Christmas program.
• Tigh-Na-Mara Toy Drive Through.  Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 from 7:30 am to 11:30 am. Come by the big tent in the front parking lot, drop off a new, unwrapped gift, gift card or cash donation and be part of the community’s morning of giving! Coffee and a pastry to go will be available.
• Silver Spur Toy Ride. Sunday Nov. 28. Horses and riders from the Silver Spur Riding Club will dress up for this festive occasion and parade down the streets of Parksville. Riders will leave Ballenas Secondary School at 12.30pm and travel along Morison Avenue. Taking a right onto Finholm St, left onto Hirst Avenue, they ride to Cedar Street then left onto Harnish Road. At this point they will be visiting Arrowsmith Lodge (approx 12.50). After a short break They will ride north on Molliet and then right onto Jensen, through the lights to Craig St, they will arrive at Stanford Village (approx 1.25pm). Leaving Stanford Village (approx 1.40pm) they will ride North on Craig turning on Hirst to arrive at SOS Thrift Shop (approx 1.50pm) for chocolate, cookies and unload gifts. Departing SOS (approx 2.10pm.) they will travel north down McMillan to Morrison and return to Ballenas (arriving approximately 2.30pm). 
• Red Apple Toy Drive and Fill the Sleigh Day. Saturday Nov. 12 – Dec. 3. Red Apple collects toy and cash donations during the three weeks. The cash donations are rounded up to the nearest dollar for our staff and volunteers to purchase the gifts needed in our Toy Shop. Red Apple donates 10% of their sales to SOS made on Dec. 3.
• Kalvas Restaurant in Parksville is once again hosting Meals for More, benefitting the SOS Caring for Community at Christmas program. Bring in a financial donation or a new, unwrapped gift for the SOS Christmas program during the month of December, and you’ll receive a free dessert from their house-made dessert menu! To make a reservation at Kalvas, call 250-248-6933.

Please call 250-248-2093 ext. 229 or email coordinator@sosd69.com for more information about this program.