JudyThompsonHugs Society
Connecting people with the local community
Christmas Hampers
What's in the Hampers?
We spend approximately $70 per hamper (current 2024) and include food staples such as pasta, and rice along with some special Christmas treats including mince pies, plum pudding and custard and jelly.
The JudyThompsonHugs Society has been very generously supported by donations from friends, family, and professional colleagues.
Fort Knox Self Storage kindly donated the archive boxes we pack the hampers in each year and we are very appreciative for their continued generous support. Having the boxes donated allows us to provide more hampers to families in need.
The hampers include items such as:
Pasta and Pasta sauce
Pancake Mix and Jam
Two minute noodles
Large box of cereal
Christmas Pudding
Festive jelly lollies
Shapes biscuits
Candy Canes
Corinthians
Mince pies
Custard
Tinsel
Rice
Soup
Milo
Jelly
Who packs the Hampers?
Judy and Richard's daughter Rebecca and her husband Rob make multiple trips to the local supermarkets to purchase the hampers items. It is often a conversation starter when you have 20 boxes of rice bubbles in a trolley along with 50 packets of pasta!
We have a small army of packers who dedicate a few hours each year to packing the hampers. Rebecca packs a 'prototype' hamper to ensure everything fits snugly in the archive boxes we use to make up the hampers, and the army of packers run a production line to ensure all the hampers are packed with love.
We even have some 'mini' helpers, they do a wonderful job collecting the items in their mini trolley and packing the hamper (with some supervision!).
How are the Hampers distributed?
Hampers are donated to local schools and distributed by the welfare team, through a family who attend the local church and we also donate a large number of hampers to Uniting in Epping, and The Salvation Army in Mill Park where hampers are distributed to families in need.
The JudyThompsonHugs Society is wholly funded by generous donations.
If you would like to donate please see the Donate/Contact page for direct deposit details.