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How You Can Help

Request a Charity Box

Displaying a Charlie’s Gift Donation Box at your work or business is a simple way to show your support.

We can drop a Donation Box off at your place of work.  All you have to do is call us when you think it may need emptying.

Every business or organisation that displays our box, automatically becomes part of the Charlie’s Gift family and acknowledged on our Community Page. Each time a box is collected and emptied, your business/organisation will be promoted on our Charlie’s Gift Facebook Page, announcing the amount you raised to our community.

Please contact shelly.spalding@charliesgift.com.au to request a donation box today.

Host a Fundraising
(Gold Coin Donation Event at your Home, School, or Business)

You are not able to display a Donation Box but would still like to help?

No worries!

You can request a Charlies Gift Donation Box to host your own event at your school, community centre, or home.  What better way to raise money than in a social, creative, and fun environment.

Take photos of your event and we will post them (with the amount you raised) on our Community Page and Facebook Page.

Every little bit helps to ensure that our aged community does not experience loneliness, social isolation and/or hardship.

Contact shelly.spalding@charliesgift.com.au and arrange for a Donation Box to be dropped off today.

Make a Personal Donation

With your help the frail aged within Newcastle and Lake Macquarie will receive the companionship, social engagement and support they deserve to prevent hardships associated with loneliness and social isolation.

Thank you for donating to Charlie’s Gift.

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Become a Volunteer

There are so many ways you can explore your creativity and “give the gift” of giving.

There are many Charlie’s Gift volunteer roles that may be of interest to you.

  • Do you have a passion for better aging, amazing business, and financial skills?

Join our board.

  • Do you love to organise, support, educate, and plan?

Become a Charlie’s Gift coordinator

  • Do you love hanging out with older people, going on social outings, and have your own car and current drivers license?

Volunteer as one of Charlie’s Gift Community Companions.

  • Do you enjoy cooking, gardening, or tinkering with handyman jobs?

Volunteer for a Charlie’s Gift Community Busy Bee event.

Friends of seniors
Helping older people
  • Are you creative, love to be busy, love to organise, and host events?

Become one of our events and activities volunteers.

  • Have you an interest in graphics and design and are across all social media platforms?

Volunteer to assist with our social media and marketing campaigns.

  • Are you a guru at technology and have a patient personality?

Volunteer to help our aged master technology (smart TV, smartphones, notebooks, etc).

  • Are you compassionate and have an interest in palliative or end of life care?

Volunteer to become a Charlie’s Gift Companion to the palliative.

There is no limit to how you can help to promote awareness, funding, or support for our aged experiencing loneliness, grief, loss, community disconnect, and hardship.

Together we really can make a difference. 

All you have to do is contact shelly.spalding@charliesgift.com.au and let us know how you would like to help.

Be the first to volunteer and help design your “Charlie’s Gift Companions” T-shirts.

What's in it for Volunteers?

Charlie’s Gift wants all our volunteers to feel they are part of the “gift of giving” family. We value and appreciate our volunteers and take every opportunity to show our appreciation.

Charlie’s Gift is not just about giving but also giving back. Giving back is important to us.

Other Benefits of Volunteering Include:

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  • Life experience for students wanting to gain skills in community aged positions.
  • Increased life skills
    • Self-awareness
    • Empathy
    • Critical thinking
    • Creative thinking
    • Decision making
    • Problem Solving
    • Effective communication
    • Interpersonal relationship
    • Coping with stress
  • Stronger community connection and valuable interaction with our older community.
  • Ability to share your skills, learn new skills and improve work-life balance.
  • Greater sense of achievement and purpose.
  • Increased confidence and self-esteem.
  • Build new friendships.

For those who request it, a Charlie’s Gift Volunteer Certificate of Community Participation may be provided.

Make a Memorial Tribute

An area that Charlie’s Gift is passionate about is supporting ‘in home’ palliative care for our aged who wish to have their final days at home. Caring for our dying takes many and it is our aim to provide support, compassion and respite to all those involved.

Memorial donations are a meaningful way to acknowledge the loss of a loved one, create a tribute to their life and show that, even in passing, they continue to support their community. All funding raised through memorials will be used to enable other aged persons to pass this world the same way they came into it; valued, secure and cared for.

All Charlie’s Gift memorial tributes will be presented on our Charlie’s Gift Memorial Page, together with notifications of who made donations and the total amount donated. A hard copy of the Tribute will be provided to the family upon request.

You will be able to choose between four Memorial Templates, each with their own personal tribute.

Go to our Memorial Page and meet Colin Watson, a dear friend of the founder of Charlie’s Gift and our first memorial Tribute.

Photo of memorial tribute to Susie Keller

Arrange a Charity Bequest Donation

A charitable bequest is a financial gift set up through a will donated to a charity or not for profit, such as Charlie’s Gift Fund Incorporated. All bequeaths received by Charlie’s Gift Fund Incorporated will go towards community assistive programs, end of life care, as well as financial assistance to ensure that the aging community of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie are protected, supported, and valued.

Create a Charity Bequest
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