About twenty volunteers hold up wrapped gifts behind tables in a bright room with city windows.

December 2026 · Montreal

Holiday Gift Basket Drive

Every December, our volunteers fill, wrap and hand-deliver holiday gifts across Montreal. This year, for our third drive, we’re aiming for 6,000 gifts. Come be part of it.

Give to the drive Ways to get involved

Our goal this year

6,000

gifts, wrapped and hand-delivered across Montreal

Last year: more than 3,000 gifts. The year before: more than 1,500.

So far this year

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What the drive is

A holiday tradition, three years in

The Holiday Gift Basket Drive is our biggest moment of the year. Donations come in through November, then our volunteers gather in December to wrap everything and hand-deliver it before the holidays.

Cozy socks, warm hats, toys and care packages go to guests at Montreal shelters and to young patients in hospital, a small reminder that someone was thinking of them.

Since 2024, we’ve run the drive with our partners at Scattered: more than 1,500 gifts that first year, then more than 3,000 last year.

Five volunteers stand with carts piled high with gift bags in a lobby.

Three ways to get involved

In kind
Donate gifts and essentials
Clothing can be gently used. Hygiene essentials and toys must be brand new, so every gift feels like a gift.
We’re collecting donations from mid-November to the end of November.
Write to us to give items
Online
Make a donation
Your gift goes straight to the Holiday Gift Basket Drive. It takes a minute, without leaving this page.
Secure payment through Stripe.
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Volunteer
Wrap with us
Join our gift-wrapping event in December: good music, good company and a lot of tape.
Dates are coming soon.
Volunteer with us

How the season runs

Mid to end of November
Donations of gifts, essentials and funds come in.
December
Our gift-wrapping event, over one or two weekends. Dates are coming soon.
Before the holidays
Volunteers hand-deliver the gifts across Montreal.

Companies and sponsors

Businesses help by donating products or wrapping supplies, or by bringing their team to wrap with us. Write to us and we’ll send you our sponsorship package.

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