"Fill the Van Challenge" for Give a Kid a Blanket

Sat Jun 19 2021 at 09:00 am to 02:00 pm

10A Turua St, St Heliers, Auckland 1071, New Zealand | Auckland

Turua Gallery
Publisher/HostTurua Gallery
"Fill the Van Challenge" for Give a Kid a Blanket
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We are so thrilled to be holding the Give a Kid a Blanket "Fill the Van" Challenge on Saturday 19th June.
As the colder days & nights are upon us, the idea is that we will literally fill our Turua Gallery Van with warmth and kindness to be given directly with those living in need.
If you work with a school, daycare or organization that hold a collection, that can then be delivered to us on Saturday 19 June, please sing out - we can send you PDF of poster or flyers. Or even please simply share this event to help us get the word out.
This collection will be held in the carpark opposite the gallery, so if we have rain, you will be able to drive up right next to the van and we can unload for you.
Many of you will know that we are a drop off point for "Give a Kid a Blanket". The team and Blanket HQ work extremely hard to get warm bedding, PJ's, jumpers & other items of warmth out to those in need, with the help of Social Workers, Public Health Nurses, Police Family Harm Teams and other community groups.
As you can imagine they are again facing greater need, with many people finding themselves in challenging times, donations are understandably lower than previous years.
Below you will see the items we are in need of. There is always high demand for Queens sized bedding. In many families the children & families sleep together to keep warm and queen sized bedding means we can help them do that.
We want the recipients to know we care and they are valued, so for this reason we ask for either pre-loved items that are in excellent clean condition or new items.

Items we are after are the following in all sizes:
Blankets, sleeping bags, duvet inners, duvet covers, baby sleep sacks, winter bedding, PJ’s, beanies, socks, jumpers, winter coats, rain coats, cots, portacots, bassinets & Moses baskets & carsets.
We also accept NEW pillows and hot water bottles.
Even 1 blanket can make a difference.

If you do not have any preloved items but would like to help Briscoes, Spotlight and The Warehouse often have amazing sales and in the past people have purchased warm items on special, online and had them delivered directly to us. They often have pillows for $5 each.
This is an amazing way we can directly help those in need and
show those in tough times, kindness and caring.
You can find out more about this cahrity on their new website: https://giveakidablanket.co.nz
As Jane Goodall said “Together we can, together we will”.
Thank you - we really appreciate every single blanket, pillow and set of PJ's & item that is dropped off **

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10A Turua St, St Heliers, Auckland 1071, New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand

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