Sharing Community Christmas Hampers

Here are some wonderful sharing links for help and advice in getting Christmas hampers and helping people who need it most at Christmas Time - spend a moment and
see if you can be of assistance

Help Share Christmas Hampers

At Easter and Christmas we pack and deliver food hampers to our clients. If your group or company is looking for a rewarding half day volunteer activity where you could lend some extra hands to help us over these busy periods, please get in touch.

Government Bans Christmas Hampers

The government announced in early December that it had banned government ministries, departments and agencies from using public funds to provide Christmas gifts.

Christmas hampers for those doing it tough in mining town

To help those doing it tough, charities across the country are delivering Christmas hampers.
Broken Hill Salvation Army Major Brenda Stace says the generosity of strangers this year has been overwhelming.
"We've had a few generous folk here today. People this week put in $50 notes, which was really nice to see.

100,000 CHRISTMAS HAMPERS

The Annual Christmas task of the New South Wales Division of the Australian Comforts Fund has this year been further increased to 100, OOO hampers to be forwarded to Aus- tralians serving overseas

Christmas Hamper Appeal – Thank you for your support

as part of our Christmas campaign, MasterChef Series 5 runner up, Lynton Tapp rolled up his sleeves to help out at our Christmas Mobile FoodShare event at Wingate Ave. Community Centre in  Ascot Vale. The event saw Lynton, side by side with Foodbank Victoria’s CEO & staff, handing out Christmas hampers to disadvantaged Victorians only days before Christmas.

As you can see, there was plenty of support and good community sharing to see that those most in need were able to share in some Christmas Joy.

Best Christmas Hampers 2013

Meet the Hunter Valley Hampers Team
OFFICIAL MEDIA RELEASE DECEMBER 2013

AFTER A HALF DOZEN Christmas Seasons as the creative designer behind Hunter Valley Hampers, Kacy has a special feeling for knowing what her buying public wants.
And when you consider her Hunter Valley Hampers has sold out completely in 2011 and 2012 on a budget of zero advertising, it's no wonder she must be doing something right.  Artisan Food, Craft Beer and handmade fresh regional produce is a winning formula.
Over coffee, we sat down and asked her secrets to making a delicious gourmet hamper and what makes Hunter Valley Hampers a trusted authority on gift baskets.

"No Pretzels," Kacy laughs, when I ask her the secret to gourmet gift baskets, "Once we stopped putting in bags of pretzels we noticed we got a different clientele."

Keeping it Real for the Peeps

The secret to Hunter Valley Hampers success over the last decade (the business has operated independently since 1988, although only recently moved to 'high end' gourmet in 2009) is offering quality product regardless of the price.

"People are willing to pay for quality product," Kacy explains, showing a jar of tunisian spiced pickle made locally, "and so long as they know you are backing the product up with a meaningful purpose, place and personality; they will pay a premium price."

"We see competitors offering plastic poinsettia flowers and questionable "gourmet" products like john west smoked oysters - these things just don't meet what our clients expect in a regional gourmet hamper," Kacy offered as a reason for the loyal customer base at Hunter Valley Hampers.  "It's really quite embarrassing to turn up at a corporate tower in Sydney and expect the executives to accept a hamper filled with this sort of stuff - I can see why people keep coming back to us.  We keep our hampers understated and let the real food do all the talking."

Making meaningful Connections with the Community

Things are looking great this Christmas, but I feel the moment of truth for any Christmas Gift Basket is the minutes after arriving home when the hamper box is sitting by your front door.  You place the box on the kitchen counter and open it to reveal a wicker basket filled with clinking jars, bottles, pouches and pudding - all presentation packed under crisp cellophane and ready for display under the Christmas Tree in time for the big day. 

An authentic artisan hamper for a genuine, homestyle Christmas Day.  Merry Christmas, and Give Yourself the Gift of a Joyous Sharing Christmas with real friends and valued family members.

Executive Christmas Hampers Delivery

We get very busy over Christmas - Book Early

Santa and the little elves will be out in force and you
can expect a thriving sell out Christmas Here in Hunter Valley Hampers

CHRISTMAS TIME is a time of frenetic acquisition - we move around consuming parties and gatherings and people with pace, as though there is some crazy deadline to get in as much as we can before we settle down at some family home for the Christmas Day luncheon.

When I returned to Newcastle after living and working abroad, the first thing I noticed was how small everything looked - in my memory somehow it had been stored as this big grand place with monuments and towering buildings and epic natural features.

Gourmet Xmas Gift Baskets

And in all the hustle and movement in Newcastle 2300 we can too easily forget those who live with the struggle of poverty, lack of opportunity and sheer hopelessness. At Christmastime this is even more important.  It is these people who should not be forgotten whilst we all gorge on unwanted mince pies, or leave half drunk bottles of beer at backyard barbeques.

EVERYONE KNOWS it is a small town, so we all have some connection to each other - whether it be through work, sport, education or family - so making a thoughtful charity gift at Christmas in Newcastle NSW 2300 is like giving to a friend in some ways.

Corporate Executive Christmas Hampers

But with the passage of time, that distance had eroded the memories to the point that on seeing them for the first time since returning from Christmas in Ireland and Europe - everything had a kind of hometown intimacy.  I truly felt like I had returned back home to Newcastle - that being a Novocastrian was definitely part of my identity.

I urge you all to go out and get involved in some small way with those less fortunate - even if it is only dropping a few coins into a buskers hat.   Just give something away to a fellow Novocastrian and see how you feel - it can be a curious sensation indeed.

In Newcastle 2300 NSW - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.