Riley’s Reindeers

12/14/2025

Grateful for all of the volunteers who spent their Saturday morning passing out toys!

Because of the generosity of our community we passed out toys to over 1,000 children this year, which is much more than we’ve ever done. We met so many kind people and really felt the Christmas cheer this year. 🎄 🎅🏻

12/13/2025

If you aren’t already in line reconsider showing up! The line is around the parking lot and we are going while supplies last!

Edit ** we made it through the line with plenty of toys! Thank you everyone for your patience while our volunteers restocked and moved the line.

12/12/2025

All donation boxes are in and overflowing!

Huge thank you to Shepherd's Community United Methodist, Fame & Foils Color Bar, Anytime Fitness Bartow, Keel Farms, and Lakeland Athletic Club!

We have over 1700 toys to distribute tomorrow, so please come pick out free toys if you need Christmas help. You do not need to bring anything, you do not need to do anything except show up and pick out toys.

12/09/2025

Polk county, FL!

Friendly reminder that if any neighbors are in need of toys for Christmas, this event is this Saturday the 13th at Hunt Fountain Park.

All toys are free, no strings attached.

- No sign up necessary/no documents needed
- Please arrive between 8am and 12pm

- We have stockings that are full (while supplies last)
- We will have volunteers to help wrap gifts if you want them wrapped
- You do not need to bring your kids, but if they do come there is a playground and a bounce house provided by Rockin' Bouncies

Support local families in need this holiday season, ensuring no child goes without on Christmas.

12/09/2025

Thank you Shepherd's Community United Methodist for the shopping spree tonight! We got an additional 290 toys, books, and electronics for the kids in our county thanks to your generosity!

So far we have enough toys for over 700 local children to have presents under the tree, we can’t wait to see everyone Saturday morning for the free toy pick up. 🎄 🎅🏻 🎁

11/15/2025

Lots of new followers and lots of new friends!

We are a grass roots organization that has been going strong for 5 years. Our goal is to make sure that the children in our community who dont have Christmas gifts under the tree get new toys to take home. 🎄

If you’re interested in helping get toys out to the children of Polk county for Christmas this year, the white flyer is for you! 🎁

If you’re needing assistance this year to put toys under the tree for your children, the blue flyer is for you! 🎅🏻

11/13/2025

Thank you to everyone helping us raise funds and donating their new and gently used toys.

11/09/2025

More toy boxes are out for collecting new and gently used toys! Toy collection locations:

Keel and Curley Winery in Plant City
Fame & Foils Color Bar in South Tampa
Shepherd's Community United Methodist Church at both the Mulberry and Lakeland campus
Anytime Fitness Bartow in Bartow
Lakeland Athletic Club in Lakeland

11/07/2025

Another toy box went up today at Anytime Fitness Bartow! We accept new and gently used toys at all box locations. If you’d like to get involved in other ways the link to our website and wishlist is in the comments. 🎅🏻 🎄

10/27/2025

We’ve started collecting toys for Christmas!

Our community is struggling with basic necessities, so please help us make sure that no child goes without a toy under the tree this holiday season.

We collect new and lightly used toys, electronic funds via Venmo or cashapp, or you can shop our wishlist here:

https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/1BVJDSRUV944V?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_ggr-subnav-share_S68T3BYJTEF8NTKN3ST1&language=en-US

10/03/2025

We are officially putting out donation boxes!

Starting this weekend you can drop off new and gently used toys at Lakeland Athletic Club (2295 Commerce Point Dr. #180) OR in South Tampa at Fame & Foils Color Bar (3401 Henderson Blvd. #3988)

Thank you to Fame & Foils for being a consistent supporter of helping get toys out to the community here in Polk County and thank you to Lakeland Athletic Club for being so kind as to let us use your space this year. 🎄 🎅🏻 🎁

12/19/2024

There are still families needing help, please grab a thing or two off of a wishlist if you’re able to. 🎅🏻

Hello friends, family, and the wonderful community that has helped make all of the Christmas magic possible the last 4 years. We are sad to inform you all that there are some big changes for our family this holiday season that will make it impossible for us to do our annual toy drive and toy passing out event in December. We will be back and better than ever next year, ready to give back to the community that we love, that’s a promise.

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We’ve had many people reach out this year for help. In an effort to help alleviate some of the holiday toy needs in our community we are going to attempt to set up a “virtual angel tree” using our social media platform.

Here’s how we will do this-

If you need help putting some toys under the tree/in your home please just comment “Santa” on this post or comment a link to a wishlist (Amazon, Walmart, etc.) and the idea is a member of the community who is in a position to help out can comment that they’re going to sponsor some toys. * If you post a wishlist please make sure you have a good range of prices for the toys so people who are helping out can pick what best suits their budget. *

🎅🏻 If you’re in a position to help a family this year, please comment on someone’s comment that needs help to let others know you’re handling gifts for that family so we don’t duplicate efforts. If someone doesn’t post a link to a wishlist please reach out to them directly to see how you can get them gifts this holiday season. 🤶🏻

Thank you a million times over, happy holidays, and we’ll see you next year.