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Backpacks for VIC Kids (B4VK) has been providing crisis and gift packs for vulnerable children from birth to 17 years old since 2014.

B4VK supports the case workers who place orders for children who are often relocated quickly without much more than what they are wearing at the time of displacement. These packs contain essential items and a few extra goodies. The goal is to bring comfort, ease anxiety and to restore dignity to these vulnerable children.

Collectively these donations can make a big difference.

LOWER SANDY BAY, TASMANIA

Tassie Mums would love your help! They are always looking for volunteers and donations to provide essential items to babies and children up to 14 who are most in need.

By volunteering with Tassie Mums, you’re supporting family services organisations right across Tasmania to support these children.

Donations of new and preloved baby and children’s clothing and other small items are collected through donation drop points and then carefully bundled and distributed as needed to these social service organisations.

Volunteering for Tassie Mums also provides an opportunity for you to gather much needed essential items which you will bring on the day to be included in packages sent out across Tasmania.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items prior that we would love you to try to round up from friends and family to donate on the day.

STIRLING COMMUNITY CENTRE, TUART HILL WA

Little Things for Tiny Tots are proud to partner with a number of WA organisations to distribute New Baby Boxes, and other baby items, to families in need.

The families they support may be impacted by domestic violence, homelessness, mental illness, and a variety of other issues.

These families often have nothing to welcome a child into the world.

By volunteering with Little Things for Tiny Tots, you’re supporting family services organisations to support women in need by packing New Baby Boxes filled with 'little things' to assist with care for their newborn such as nappies, wipes, clothing, blankets and books.

Donations of new and preloved baby and children’s clothing and other small items are collected through donation drop points and then carefully bundled and distributed as needed.

As part of your volunteering experience, Little Things would love you to reach out to co-workers, friends and family to collect much needed items that you can take on the day. These items can be donated and sorted, making a huge difference to a mum and bub in need.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items a couple of weeks prior to the event.

UNANDERRA, NSW

Escabags is a registered charity providing FREE ‘Escape Bags” for families and individuals escaping domestic violence and family abuse.

Each tote bag is kindly made with love by volunteers around the country and sent to Escabags HQ to be filled with essential items that a victim/survivor and their children may need when initially escaping a dangerous or abusive situation.

The purpose of the Escabags is to prevent the most vulnerable having to re-enter the family home for necessities at the most lethal time. Each ‘Escape Bag’ contains high-quality products as they understand the importance of feeling comforted and worthy in a crisis. There are two variations of ‘Escape Bags’, “Parent and Child” or “Single Adult”.

In three years, Escabags has distributed over 8,500 Escape Bags via their 1,400+ national Escabags stockists.

As part of your volunteering experience, Escabags would love you to reach out to co-workers, friends and family to collect much needed items that you can take on the day. These items can be donated and sorted, making a huge difference to those in need.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items a couple of weeks prior to the event.

BENDIGO, VIC

Sunshine Bendigo is a community-based, volunteer group that provides practical support to families experiencing challenging times by collecting, sorting, and redistributing essential new and pre-loved baby goods and nursery equipment.

Glenda - Founder and CEO, “I love the African proverb that says – ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ I believe that the village (our community) is paramount for families to survive and flourish.

The demand on our service is growing every day. The challenges we face to sustain and grow our service often seem huge and insurmountable. Sunshine Bendigo is a community. Every member of our team, every volunteer, every donor and every supporter makes up our village.”

Volunteer - "Knowing the work we do is making such a positive difference to so many families is incredibly rewarding.”

By Volunteering with Sunshine Bendigo, you are supporting women and children in crisis - you are also supporting those services caring for these families which makes a huge impact on local community.

As part of your volunteering experience, Sunshine Bendigo would appreciate you to reaching out to co-workers, friends and family to collect much needed items that you can take on the day. These items can be donated and sorted, making a huge difference to a woman and child in need.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items a couple of weeks prior to the event.

CRANBOURNE, VICTORIA

Backpacks 4 VIC Kids provide age appropriate essentials for children, aged from birth to 17, who are displaced very quickly.

Volunteering for Backpacks 4 VIC Kids provides an opportunity for you to gather much needed essential items which will then be used in these backpacks that are sent out across Australia.

On your volunteering date, you take your loot to the Backpacks 4 VIC Kids warehouse where you will donate your items and then spend the day sorting and packing.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items prior that we would love you to try to round up from friends and family to donate on the day.

BOTANY, NSW

ReLove rescues furniture and household items from companies and the community and redistribute it for FREE directly to people who need a helping hand.

ReLove is a registered charity supporting women and children impacted by domestic violence, people experiencing homelessness, men and women coming out of incarceration, and people seeking asylum.

They provide good quality rescued furniture and household items at no-cost, direct to families in crisis. On average, we support 15 families per week.

Furniture is rescued from; suppliers with surplus, returned, ex-floor stock and seconds furniture, corporate relocations, hotels, community donations and removalists.

They also raise funds for new essentials which provide dignity. Essentials like, kitchen and linen starter packs and gift vouchers which provide the dignity of choice.

When people come to ReLove, they are living in crisis, they have just been granted housing but have few possessions. ReLove provides everything they need to make a house a home.

They are creating homes with kindness by working alongside case workers who assist clients select what they need, empowering clients with the gift of choice at a time when they need it most.

They also organise delivery directly to the client, assemble furniture and connect appliances.

As part of your volunteering experience, ReLove would appreciate you to reaching out to co-workers, friends and family to collect much needed items that you can take on the day. These items can be donated and sorted, making a huge difference to woman and child in need.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items a couple of weeks prior to the event.

Brunswick East Warehouse, VIC

Securing an affordable rental is tough, fitting it out can be tougher!

RIMERN is a multi club Rotary project operating Inner Melbourne, providing furniture, appliances & homewares to welfare agency clients who have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, incarceration, refugee displacement and other crises.

RIMERN is modelled on Eastern Emergency Relief Network (operating in the Eastern suburbs) and Western Emergency Relief Network (operating in the Western suburbs). The three Rotary projects collaborate wherever possible.

By volunteering with RIMERN, you’re supporting family services organisations to support women and children in need by providing great quality, pre-loved and new items ready for a new home. These recipients often have nothing.

Donations of new and preloved items are collected then taken back to the warehouse to be repaired, cleaned and sorted to be distributed as needed.

As part of your volunteering experience, RIMERN would love you to reach out to co-workers, friends and family to collect much needed items that you can take on the day. These items can be donated and sorted, making a huge difference to woman and child in need.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items a couple of weeks prior to the event.

Mums Supporting Families in Need - MSFIN

Supporting our community’s most vulnerable families

MSFIN was started with a big heart and a simple idea. The idea that as a community, we can ensure no family is living without their basic daily needs being met. No child should go without essentials.

MSFIN works with over 80 welfare agencies to provide material aid support for families in crisis. We do not liaise directly with families; this is to ensure that families in need are provided with professional and holistic support from trained support workers.

MSFIN supports the Case Workers who support Women and Child affected by Domestic Violence and other crisis situations.

Volunteering with MSFIN will see you making a huge difference to those in need - and they promise a fun day too with meaningful and impactful tasks.

Help to clean, sort and fill orders for these case workers ready for pick up or delivery.

You’ll hear the stories of impact and meet the amazing team that co-ordinates the hundreds of requests that come in weekly.

The DV Collective will provide you a list of items a couple of weeks prior to the event.

CANBERRA, ACT

“Thank you for the very timely and generous response to my request for assistance for my client. She was so thrilled, grateful and humbled that the Canberra community, via Roundabout, cares about her and her family.”

Roundabout Canberra provides safe, high quality essential baby and children's items to families in need through our network of community and not-for-profit organisations.

The focus of everything they do is on the child and ensuring every child has access to what they need to thrive.

This rewarding volunteering opportunity will mean the world to children and families in need in the ACT.

You’ll spend the afternoon helping to sort and pack items that have been ordered by social and case workers for children who have often been displaced quickly and have nothing.

By supporting the case workers and these services they can focus on their core business while ensuring essential items are available in great condition for their clients.

After all, every child deserves a safe start and every family deserves dignity.

Thomastown, VICTORIA

Big Group Hug is an organisation helping vulnerable children who are living in crisis, many fleeing domestic violence. by seeking and then distributing essential items in times of need.

They support a network of existing welfare agencies and social services to provide essential material aid items to their clients.

Volunteering at the new Warehouse in Thomastown, your time may be spent sorting and packing donations to be distributed to these families in need or help with preparation of prams, cots and car seats for distribution.

The DV Collective will let you know prior to your volunteering day some of the items in most need, and we’ll ask you to rally your friends and family to gather these essentials and pre-loved clothing to donate.

By Volunteering with Big Group Hug and donating some items on the day - you can give a child a better life AND be a part of the diversion of more than 60 tonnes of good quality pre-loved items from landfill every year for reuse by families in need!