12/24/2023
Merry Christmas from the Donation Centre! This holiday season, we are very grateful to our loyal volunteers, our location sponsors, and our generous donors who make life in Regina possible for so many Newcomers. And shout out to the wonderful women (pictured here) of the Regina Catholic School Division who did a great job to help prepare the warehouse for the season!
We continue to keep our regular hours (listed below) through the holiday season, except we will be closed on Saturday, January 6.
As more continue to arrive, we have waiting lists for specific items, and still are in need of the everyday essentials that are most in demand. Your help would be greatly appreciated for items listed below ...
For drop-off Sundays between 1 pm and 3 pm at 1660 Park Street: (middle loading bay door)
Excellent condition furniture (no rips or stains) and like-new or new bedding and men’s clothing (medium and small) at the warehouse location. (Details below)
For drop off Sundays between 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM at 3303 Grant Road: Housewares, cleaning supplies, toys, and new toiletries. (Details below)
Requesting for 1660 Park Street:
- Excellent condition furniture - Kitchen or dining tables and chairs, desks and office chairs, loveseats, sofas, nightstands, dressers (with working drawers), chairs, futons.
- New or like-new beds/air mattresses or gift cards for places like Sleep Country.
- Excellent condition boxsprings and bedframes
- working microwaves and vacuums
- working bikes
- Newer TV’s (flatscreens, not tube TV’s, as those, won’t work with their available technology)
- Booster car seats for toddlers
- Strollers
Requesting for 3303 Grant Road:
- Excellent condition pots, sauce pans, and frying pans
- Laundry detergent
- Working power bars, HDMI cables
- Working hair dryers
- Excellent condition mixing bowls and cereal bowls
- Clean Mops and buckets
- Working irons
- Excellent condition kettles
- Excellent condition laundry baskets
- New toiletries / sanitary supplies / cleaning supplies
- New toasters
- Working Pressure cooker, blenders, mixers
- New or excellent condition backpacks
- Good condition tools like drills, screwdrivers, hammers, pliers, scissors, etc.
- Kitchen tools like can openers, soup ladles, garlic mincers, and peelers
- New cutting boards
- Sets of cutlery and knives
- Working gaming systems
- Gift cards to Superstore, Walmart, Gas Stations or other stores
For now, full of the following:
No clothing (except men’s mentioned above)
No stuffed animals
No water bottles
No Christmas decorations
No Tupperware
No stuffed animals
No hide-a-beds
No books
No mugs
No electric fry pans
No crock pots
No chipped/scratched up dishes
No novelties
No knick-knacks
No cassette or VHS tapes
No frames
No expired baby seats
Thank you so much for your help and generosity throughout these critical times. Wishing you a joyous, peaceful, and prosperous holiday season and New Year ahead!
