CCP's annual Hamper Scamper campaign seeks to relieve some of the financial and emotional burdens of the festive season on families and individuals who are already struggling. We believe that nobody should go without. Our aim is to encourage our community to come together to provide hope to those in need.  

Many of those who receive a hamper will be families and individuals living on the brink of homelessness and struggling to afford food and heating alongside the expectations of the festive season. Others may be isolated adults and young people, with no friends or family to celebrate this special time of year with. 

Hamper Scamper 2022 saw a significant increase in demand following recent benefit cuts, increased fuel prices, supermarket shortages, and ongoing unemployment as we recover from the biggest challenge of our lifetime. Over the last 18 months, we have seen requests for emergency food double.

To provide this service, we rely on the generosity of our community for donations of basic food items through to festive provisions, including quality gifts for children. 

Take a look at what we achieved in 2022 by downloading our review

Looking forward to 2023

We know this year is likely to be our most demanding yet.  More than ever, we need to rally and mobilise the business and wider community to generate as many hampers and gifts as possible to support people through an otherwise bleak festive period. 

How you can help: 

Donate a Christmas gift for a child that we support by:

1: Organising your office, school or group to pledge to donate gifts to fulfil our gift tags.  Each tag is based on a real child referred to us, and contains some basic information about them and what they would like to open on Christmas Day.

2. Purchasing and donating new gifts not based on a gift tag or specific child’s needs. These will form our ‘toy shop’ from which we can ensure that every child referred to us receives a gift if we are unable to find a specific donor for them, or if they are referred to us late.

Donate food towards our festive hampers by:

Collecting and donating items from our shopping list food list to make up the hampers.

To download or print: click here

12 Days of Giving

Challenge yourself or your team to the ’12 days of Giving’ and focus on collecting an item per day for each day of the campaign. If we can raise 3000 items per day of each then we will be on track to hit our target!

To download or print: click here

Sponsor an Item

Or would you prefer to collect for one specific item?  Perhaps you would like to sponsor an item and pledge towards raising a certain amount towards the final total? 

Volunteering

Each year we engage over 350 volunteers to support our operations over three weeks in November and December.  We are privileged, grateful and humbled by the support we are offered by people and teams wanting to help out, but unfortunately we cannot accommodate every request we receive.  We do prioritise teams that also support our gift giving and food hamper donations. 

Drop Off Points

We are accepting donations for Hamper Scamper at the following locations until 6 December:

CCP HQ - 340 The High Street, Cheltenham, GL50 3JF

Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm

Saturday - Sunday: Closed

The Grange - Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8YQ

Monday - Friday: 9:30am - 4:30pm

Saturday - Sunday: Closed

Open from 28th November.

Cheltenham Christmas Trees - 278 Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, GL51 7AG 

Monday - Sunday: 10am - 6pm

Open from the 24th November.

Gloucester Carpet Outlet - Unit 4, Mill Place, 90 Bristol Road, GL1 5SQ

Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm

Saturday: 9am - 4pm

Sunday: 10am - 2:30pm

Next steps: how to pledge your support

If you require promotional posters, banners or social media images, please email: [email protected]

Now: Please register your interest in any of the above using this form. This will ensure you will receive follow up communications about your specific pledge.

Key Dates

29^th September: Our referral portal opens, allowing our partners to start to make us aware of families and households in need of support

31^st October: Our referral portal closes

November 8^th: We release gift tags to those who have pledged to purchase a gift(s)

November 28^th: We ask that all donated gifts are with us, as well as food donations, although we will carry on accepting food donations until Friday 8^th December.

November 27^th – December 4^th – We are live! Our Grotto swings into action, welcoming 350+ volunteers to Grange Park, Cheltenham.

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