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Discover how your support can transform lives in our community throughout the year.
Ways to Support The Greenaway Foundation
Getting involved with The Greenaway Foundation is a meaningful way to make a difference in your community. Whether through donations, sponsorship, or volunteering, your support helps families in need throughout the year.
Make a Difference Through Donations
Your generous donations provide essential support during the festive season and beyond.
Become a Sponsor for Lasting Impact
Sponsorship opportunities allow you to create lasting change for families in need.
Volunteer Your Time and Skills
Join our team of dedicated volunteers to help us deliver vital support.
Donate
Make a Difference with Your Donation Today
Your financial contributions are vital in supporting families during the festive season and throughout the year. Every donation helps us provide meals, gifts, and essential supplies to those in need.
Make a Difference: Sponsor Our Initiatives and Events Today
Event Sponsorship
Support our festive events and help bring joy to local families this Christmas.
Initiative Sponsorship
Sponsor specific initiatives to ensure children receive the support they need year-round.
Partner with us to Make Christmas Special
Businesses can make a tangible impact by sponsoring food items for hampers or fulfilling children’s Christmas wishes.
Sponsor a Food Item
For the past six years, local businesses have generously come together to sponsor food items for our Christmas hampers. These hampers are carefully packed with all the ingredients a family needs to prepare a two-course Christmas meal.
Sponsor a Reindeer
Your sponsorship will directly fund Christmas wishes – specific presents children have requested – helping to spread joy and warmth to families who might otherwise go without. Each “Reindeer Package” provides a different level of gifts, from gaming vouchers to toy store credit, giving children the exact items they have wished for this Christmas.
Sponsor an Elf
Our “Elf Packages” go beyond Christmas wishes, helping families who need a little extra support. The Valerie Award, named after Darren Greenaway’s mother, honours families who are facing particularly difficult challenges. These families will receive extra gifts, food, or other essentials to help them through the holidays.
Volunteer: Be a Santa’s Helper, Elf or Reindeer
Volunteers are the heart and soul of the Greenaway Foundation’s Christmas campaign. We need enthusiastic helpers from 10th–24th December to help with various tasks, including wrapping gifts, packing hampers, and delivering them to families.
Key Dates & Details:
Gift Wrapping
- 16th-19th December 2025
- 10am-1.30pm & 2pm- 4.30pm
- Oriel High School, Maidenbower Lane, Crawley, RH10 7XW
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22nd December
2025 - 10am-1.30pm & 2pm- 4.30pm
- Oriel High School, Maidenbower Lane, Crawley, RH10 7XW
Packing Hampers
- 23rd December
- 8am to 4pm
- Oriel High School, Maidenbower Lane, Crawley, RH10 7XW
- Elves will pack and prepare hampers.
- Christmas Eve
- 7am to 12 NOON
- Oriel High School, Maidenbower Lane, Crawley, RH10 7XW
- Elves will add fresh goods to hampers then help load these into reindeers’ “sleighs” for delivery.
Hampers Deliveries
- 24th December 2025
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Starting at 9.30am
Reindeers will deliver hampers to families across West & East Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Each reindeer will deliver up to four hampers per trip and will be able to specify preferred areas. - Deliveries should be collected by 11:30am, and everything completed by 1pm. Leaving you time to enjoy your own Christmas festivities!
