The SJD Foundation “week of giving” didn’t stop at 100 fun food hampers for CAFS (Child and Family Services Ballarat).
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We also made up Christmas hampers and gift vouchers to give to the Students at the Young Parents Campus in Delacombe. We hope you all enjoy your Christmas treats and congratulations on a great year!

It’s been a big week at the SJD Foundation! Our favourite time of year...

A time to give a little bit of cheer to those in our community who deserve a helping hand.
This year the SJD Foundation is giving 100 Christmas hampers full of “fun foods” for Cafs Foster care and Kinship care households to enjoy.

A big thank you to all those that make this giving possible including our wonderful helpers.

• Shane from Woolworths
• Anthony for the use of the York St Church of Christ for packing.
• Our wonderful helpers for packing and delivering - Poppy & Catherine, Mary, Ned, Clemmie and Lauren.
• Ben, Richard and all the generous sponsors of the Golf City Driving Range SJD charity day - without these funds we couldn’t achieve what we do each year.
• And last but not least our board: Brayden, Gavin, Anthony, Jarrod, Lucy and Nicole who work so well together as a team to make all this happen.

Merry Christmas to all!!

Happy Easter to all! 

We were proud to be able to donate a huge amount of chocolate eggs and other treats for the CAFS Foster and Kinship Care children, which were gratefully accepted by Foster Care Practitioner Sasha Ward, pictured.
The children will enjoy their Easter even more now as they will be used in an Easter egg hunt!

Are you interested in becoming a Foster Carer? For more information, click here  https://www.cafs.org.au/become-a-foster-carer CAFS would love to hear from you!

Thank you to Dan O'Toole Signs for producing and installing the new signage at the Delacombe Community Centre. Yuille Park Young Parents Program are our tenants and they do an awesome job of assisting young mothers integration back into education. Check out their website at www.yuilleyoungparentscampus.com

We were proud once again this year to assist some local families with brand new back to school gear and stationery to make sure these kids are looking forward to heading back to school for 2021. Thanks to Eureka Mums for organising this drop to the families who needed it through their network.  

Board Members and Volunteers worked hard last week to put together 70 Santa Sacks full of food and gift items for families associated with Child and Family Services Ballarat (CAFS).

The sacks full of goodies from local businesses Shepp Cannery Surplus and Woolworths will be a welcome addition to the Christmas celebrations at the range of families who are in the most need of assistance this Christmas.

These sacks were delivered today to CAFS in time for them to distribute to the needy families.
Pictured here are Nicole, Gavin & Brayden from the SJD Foundation Ballarat Inc Board delivering the sacks.
Well done to all and to our local business partners once again!

Today we donated 10 very much needed puffer coats to the Soup Bus to distribute to their clients.
​Thank you to Nicole from our board of management for organising this and of course to the Soup Bus for their tireless work in the area of homelessness in Ballarat.

This week we were able to collate and deliver 72 food boxes to local foster families through CAFS Ballarat... to make this Easter a special time for these wonderfully caring people.
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This was all made possible by local Ballarat Samaritan Jake Warren who raised $4,000 to shave off his impressive beard.

Jake even helped us pack the boxes today! Also a big thank you to Woolies Stockland who assisted with getting access to the necessities and some choccy treats too.

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A big thank you to this great event who have organised a day of cricketing fun at Victoria Park in Ballarat. Games were played, raffles drawn and money raised for the SJD Foundation Ballarat Inc.

A huge thanks to Brendan and Victoria Police for their efforts in raising the money and handing it over to us to distribute to our causes throughout the year.