Host An Angel Tree

A fun way for your community to make a difference in a festive and impactful way!
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Without the dedication of our faithful volunteers, we would not have the many hands and feet needed to help our community.

Volunteer Opportunities

Community Garden Volunteer
Participate in providing care and maintenance of our community garden
Tower Garden Volunteer
Participate in providing care and maintenance of our tower garden.
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We offer a variety of roles to match your interests and availability.
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Group volunteering

Looking to volunteer as a group? Whether you're part of a workplace, school, or community organization, we offer special opportunities for group service projects. Submit a group application form today to arrange a group volunteering experience.

Additional ways to get involved

Support our mission in creative and meaningful ways beyond traditional volunteering.

Plant a row, feed a family

If you love gardening, consider growing an extra row of fruits or vegetables in your garden to donate to our food bank. Every fresh, homegrown item helps provide nutritious meals to those in need.

Use your talents for good

Are you skilled in graphic design, photography, social media, or event planning? We welcome volunteers who can help spread awareness and support our programs in creative ways.

Ready to get started? Apply to volunteer

Fill out our volunteer application form to begin your journey.

Questions? Contact us

For any questions about volunteering, email us at example@salvationarmy.ca or call 111-111-1111.

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We offer a variety of roles to match your interests and availability.
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Use individual cards to highlight related items, features, links, or actions. Each card should include a short title, description, and an optional clear call to action link.
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Use individual cards to highlight related items, features, links, or actions. Each card should include a short title, description, and an optional clear call to action link.
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Use individual cards to highlight related items, features, links, or actions. Each card should include a short title.
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Use individual cards to highlight related items, features, links, or actions. Each card should include a short title and description.
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Use individual cards to highlight related items, features, links, or actions. Each card should include a short title and description.

Group volunteering

Looking to volunteer as a group? Whether you're part of a workplace, school, or community organization, we offer special opportunities for group service projects. Submit a group application form today to arrange a group volunteering experience.

Additional ways to get involved

Support our mission in creative and meaningful ways beyond traditional volunteering.

Use your talents for good

Are you skilled in graphic design, photography, social media, or event planning? We welcome volunteers who can help spread awareness and support our programs in creative ways.

Any Christmas Tree can become an Angel Tree…. whether it’s a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree or a tree that would rival Rockefeller Center. 

An Angel Tree is simply a Christmas tree decorated with tags that have the age and gender of a child who will receive toys/gifts through The Salvation Army this Christmas. 

Angel Trees can be found in a church lobby, hair salons, hardware stores, banks, offices, busy malls….anywhere!

Hosting an Angel Tree is easy

  • Contact us to let us know the number of tags you’d like and we’ll deliver them to you along with a sign explaining the program. All you have to do is put the tags on your tree and let people select tags.
  • People wishing to be a Christmas Angel pick a tag (or tags) from the Tree, purchase toys/gifts for a child of indicated gender/age, and drop the donation off at your Angel Tree. 
  • Please let us know if you would like members of the public to access your tree, or just people within your organization/group.
  • If you’d like to be a public drop-off location for any Angel Tree donation, that’s great! If not, they can be dropped off at any location listed on our website which is shown on the back of the tags.
  • Our Wish List is helpful for those looking for gift buying ideas and inspiration!

Email rebecca.thiessen@salvationarmy.ca or call 519-660-5884 ext. 5 to order Angel Tree Tags for your organization/business.

Thank you for helping us bless 4,500 children this Christmas!

How kids get the gifts...

Each Angel Tree Tag indicates a child's gender and age, and donors shop for toys/gifts that correspond with that gender/age. However, the tag does not represent a specific child because...

We invite parents to 'shop for' or choose the toys their child will most like. This gives the parent the power and dignity of choice. Stressful financial struggles often deprive families of choice and we feel strongly that parents deserve the opportunity of a traditional Christmas 'shopping' experience and to choose what to gift their child. This 'Shopping Model' is very popular with our program participants because it blesses the children AND parents of our community in need. 

Why the Angel Tree is special...

Do you remember, when, as a young child out with your mom, you so carefully chose that paper Angel off the tree at Argyle Mall and went shopping at Woolco to get your gifts to give to that child and carefully placed them under the big Argyle Mall tree?  Or maybe it was a different mall and a different store, but the memory still lingers!  Or maybe you have never heard of an Angel Tree before.

Now is the time to relive that memory or create memories and start a new tradition with your own family or friends. It’s easy!

Learn how the Angel Tree Program that began 45 years ago inspired our Angel Tree Toy Drive!

Merry Christmas and God bless you!

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