Guelph-Wellington Basketeers

10/27/2026

🧺✨ Choose the OG Household Essentials Basket option for Guelph-Wellington Basketeers 2026!

A basket of useful, essential household items is a thoughtful way to make a woman’s transition to a new home of safety and security a little easier and remind someone they’re not alone.

🧺 Here are some tips for assembling your HOUSEHOLD ESSENTIALS BASKETS:

• Bathroom towel sets are a priority.
• Small to medium-sized household essentials are appreciated.
• Feel free to organize your basket by theme (kitchen or bathroom essentials).
• A basket is required, with an itemized list of contents attached to the outside.
• Wrapping the basket is NOT required.

Please register your basket for the November 28 drop-off date by DM or email today 📧

10/19/2026

A kitchen is more than a place to cook... it’s where new routines begin, meals are shared and a sense of home takes shape!

By choosing to donate a KITCHEN SET this season, you can help women transitioning into a new home find the comfort, dignity, and security they deserve as they begin their next chapter.

Let’s see what’s needed:

🥘 Large sets of pots and cookware
🍳 Non-stick frying pans
🍽️ Sets of dishes and glassware
🥡 Food storage containers
🗑️ Garbage bins

*Cookware is especially needed, so please prioritize pots and frying pans over bakeware!

No basket is necessary. Items can be brought in separately.

Please register your donation for our November 28 drop-off day by email or DM today 📧

10/08/2026

🫧Cleaning supplies and basic household items may seem like small things, but they provide something incredibly important for a woman in need: the ability to make her new space feel clean, safe, comfortable, and truly her own!

Basketeers, please consider our CLEANING SUPPLIES OPTION as your donation for this season:

• stick vacuums, mops and buckets, brooms, and garbage bins and bags are needed
• no basket required; items can brought in separately

Register your donation by DM or email today! ✉️

10/01/2026

A safe, comfortable place to sleep can bring a small but meaningful sense of comfort and stability during a difficult time 🛏️

On November 28, consider giving the gift of bedding to a woman beginning again. Help her create a cozy space where she can rest, recharge, and feel a little more at home 🏡

2026 BEDDING OPTION:
• sheet sets, comforters, duvets, mattress protectors, blankets (twin, double) are priority
• bed pillows are not needed this season
• no basket is required; items can be brought in separately

📧 Register your bedding donation today by DM or email!

09/24/2026

Hellooo Guelph-Wellington Basketeers!

🗓️ Please mark our annual drop-off date of Saturday, November 28 in your calendars!

In our best efforts to align with the immediate needs G-W Women in Crisis this 2026 season, you have FOUR OPTIONS for how you choose to donate items to women in need…

BEDDING OPTION:
• sheet sets, comforters, duvets, mattress protectors, blankets (twin, double) are priority
• bed pillows are not needed this season
• no basket required; items can be brought in separately

KITCHEN SET OPTION:
• large sets of pots, non-stick frying pans, sets of dishes and glassware, food storage containers and garbage bins are needed
• please focus on cookware over bakeware
• no basket required; items can brought in separately

CLEANING SUPPLIES OPTION:
• stick vacuums, mops and buckets, brooms, and garbage bins and bags are needed
• no basket required; items can brought in separately

HOUSEHOLD ESSENTIALS BASKET OPTION:
• bathroom towel sets are identified as priority
small to medium-sized items that fit into a basket are appreciated
• can choose to organize by theme (i.e. bathroom essentials)
• basket required; wrapping not required
• please attach an itemized list to the outside of your basket

💌 Kindly register your donation by email to [email protected]!

07/04/2026

Our pleasure to support, always 💜

One of our clients has her grandson moving in and Jenn Davies was thrilled to be able to help her with some practical items to help get him settled in.

We care for our clients' extended family whenever we can. Stable families equal healthy communities and we are all about that.

This special moment would NOT have been possible without the Guelph-Wellington Basketeers, Emma's Toy Drive and some supportive local businesses invested in helping families thrive.

Thank you everyone!

12/10/2025

🎼These are a few of our favourite things: our loyal Basketeers, drop-off days, big smiles, new household items, little ones helping, stacks of gift cards, thoughtful notes of encouragement, our dedicated volunteers, and 💝

11/26/2025

📯 WE DID IT AGAIN, BASKETEERS!!! We embraced new donation options to better meet the needs identified this year, and I’m so proud to share that together we contributed: 105 baskets of essential household items; 75 kitchen appliances; 45 kitchenware sets; 50 sheet sets; 12 comforter sets and quilts; plus $6,000 in gift cards from and !!!

Because of YOU, we will help so many women in crisis take their first steps from homes filled with abuse or violence into spaces of safety and security.

To our returning supporters and those joining us for the first time, THANK YOU for choosing Basketeers as your way to give back this season. Thank you to our cherished local businesses, community groups, hospital and school departments, dance teams, neighbours, and friends who united to make a meaningful impact.

To our team of top notch volunteers: your hard work made drop-off day seamless and so much fun too! I am endlessly grateful. Every contribution, including time and positive energy, makes a difference to a survivor rebuilding her life 💜

And to our remarkable partners at ... your work changes lives and we are forever honoured to support this work 🙏🏼

11/21/2025

DYK❔Our long-time Basketeers, the Wacky Walking Group, have an annual tradition of getting together to assemble their always-amazing baskets. One exceptionally talented group member is including FIVE beautiful handmade quilts for women in need 💜

THANK YOU, LADIES!!! Lisa Curtis

11/18/2025