Christmas Angel Sponsorship registration for Businesses/Individuals is closed at the moment and will open 1st July 2025
We want to express our heartfelt thank you to everyone who registered to be a part of this wonderful initiative in 2024, you made a huge difference in the life of others. If you would like to support families in our local community but do not wish to purchase gifts we would love you click the “Donate Now” button below and in the Refence please put ‘Xmas Angels’ – this will go towards helping families for Christmas 2025. Every contribution makes a huge difference. Thank you so much for your generosity and please check back in July to register your group to become a Christmas Angel!
#Making a Difference Together#
A huge Thank You to our amazing sponsors – we simply could not run this initiative without their support which goes towards employing a Co-ordinator for this amazing project! Thanks Aoraki Foundation, Bleeker & Weith, Temuka Transport and TMG Connect!
Experience the joy of giving
Christmas can be a joyous time, it can also be a time of extreme struggle and stress for some South Canterbury families. Now more than ever local families are struggling and for many of them, this is a situation that they have never been in before . With your help these families get to celebrate Christmas.
The Family Works Christmas Angel Project will enable you, your family, friends, business, staff, work colleagues, groups or teams to buy gifts/gift vouchers, experiences etc for a local family in need this Christmas. Only families that have been referred by caseworkers from our own Family Works service and also other selected social service agencies. These families have experienced trauma and hardship and are working hard to improve their lives as well as their families.
In 2024 over 100 local families in our region were supported thanks to amazing people in our community who became Christmas Angel sponsors. The families were so very grateful and overwhelmed by the generosity of their Christmas Angel sponsor and the sponsors felt really good to be able to help a real family in need.
How it Works:
Family Works will identify the families most in need and these families are then matched to suitable sponsors. As a sponsor you will receive a profile of the family you have been allocated. This could include single parent families, grandparents raising grandchildren and/or extended family living in the same household. The profile details how many adults there are and the ages of any children. The profile also provides some family background and includes gift suggestions that each family member needs or would like.
You/your group then shop for the family based on these requests (presents, vouchers, Christmas treats etc). How much you spend on your family is your decision. You can buy all the gift suggestions provided or just select a few – please do not feel that you have to purchase everything on the list, whatever you give will be of immense help. Both the family and the sponsors identity remain anonymous.
You will be sent a time to drop your gifts/items to the allocated place just before Christmas and Family Works staff members will deliver your gifts to your family.
Working together we really can make a difference to the lives of vulnerable families in South Canterbury.
Watch this space to register from the 1st July 2025!
