01 Guidelines for hosting a donation drive
Please download our guidelines document if you’d like to collect donations (monetary/food/gifts) for Communities at Work.
Click here to download the guidelines for hosting your Giving Tree in PDF format.
Christmas – How To Host a Giving Tree
If you run a business, a shop, a community group or even at your workplace, you can host a giving tree (donation drive) to collect food, gifts or both for people in need in Canberra.
Please refer to our list of items we need when requesting donations. Download the list here.
Note: We are always short of gifts for teenagers and adults, so we’d love it if you could encourage donations for these age groups.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AS A GIVING TREE HOST
Download Christmas Toolkit
How to Host a Giving Tree
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Set a date for your Christmas giving treeDecide when you will hold your Christmas tree donation drive (start and finish dates). As we support people from the beginning of December, we would appreciate early donations, rather than everything arriving the week before Christmas! This also helps with people’s anxiety about not having something to give their children for Christmas |
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Register to host a giving treeFill out the registration form. Click here to fill out the form. |
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Get your toolkit of resourcesThis toolkit is full of tips and resources to help you promote your donation drive to support families and individuals in need this Christmas. Click here to access the toolkit resources, and don’t forget to register as a Giving Tree Host. |
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Start collectingSet up your Giving Tree and start collecting donations! Want to open your tree to the public? When you register, you can choose to be listed on our website as a public donation drop-off point. We’ll share your business name, address and appeal dates so people in the community know where and when they can leave their donations. |
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Deliver donationsPlease deliver your donations to one of our Communities at Work locations.
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Thank supportersDownload a Certificate of Appreciation from our |
Register to Host a Giving Tree Here
Resources in the Toolkit
02 Posters
Decide what type of donation drive you want and then download the appropriate poster to place in your workplace/community space and spread the word about your Giving Tree:
There’s space at the bottom of the posters to include the location of your Giving Tree or any other instructions.
03 Suggested Text
We’ve put together some words you might like to use when promoting our Appeal.
You’re welcome to use your own text in your communications when promoting your Giving Tree, but we’ve provided you with some suggested text too!
Click here to download the suggested text to promote your Giving Tree, in Word format.
04 Graphics/Images
Download the graphics/images to use to promote your Giving Tree:
05 List of suggested items to donate
Use this list of suggested food and gifts to inform your donors what to donate (new gifts only, not second-hand, please). And we’re always short of teenage and adult gifts, so please encourage these if you can.
06 Decorate your Giving Tree: Christmas Tags
Our Christmas donation tags can be printed and handed out or hung on your Christmas tree!
All anyone has to do is scan the QR code on the tag, and they’ll be able to donate directly to Communities at Work!
Click here to download the printable donation tags.
Printing instructions: Print double-sided, preferably on a heavy-weight paper or card stock. Trim the tags using the red line provided as a guide and punch a hole in the circle at the top. Attach strings to hang them on your giving tree, or distribute them to your friends and family.
Alternatively, you can send us an email at marketing@commsatwork.org and we’ll send you a printed bundle of tags ready to use!
07 Certificate of Appreciation
Don’t forget to show your supporters some love!
Click here to download a certificate of appreciation to thank your supporters (pdf).
Other: Our Logos & QR Code
LOGOS:
If you decide to develop your own campaign assets, we’re happy for you to do so! We just request that you add the Communities at Work logo to your assets so that people immediately it’s our Christmas Appeal that they’re donating to!
Click here to download our logos (png format).
Please contact us at marketing@commsatwork.org if you wish to obtain the logo in EPS format.
QR CODE AND LINK TO DONATE
Click here to download our QR code
Place this link in your communications to promote your virtual giving tree: www.commsatwork.org/donate