Hamper Scamper 2023
Hamper Scamper is one of the region's largest festive season food and gift collections and distributions, supporting individuals and families most in need during the festive season. Volunteer, donate food, and children's gifts, or donate online. Hamper Scamper is only made possible by the individuals who support it.
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.
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.
To view our impact report for Hamper Scamper 2023
click here
How you can help:
Donate a christmas gift for a child that we support by:
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.
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 out shopping list food list to make up the hampers.
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!
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 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:
HamperScamper@ccp.org.uk
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
29th September: Our referral portal opens, allowing our partners to start to make us aware of families and households in need of support.
31st October: Our referral portal closes.
November 8th: We release gift tags to those who have pledged to purchase a gift(s).
November 28th: We release gift tags to those who have pledged to purchase a gift(s). We ask that all donated gifts are with us, as well as food donations, although we will carry on accepting food donations until Friday 8th December.
November 27th – December 4th – We are live! Our Grotto swings into action, welcoming 350+ volunteers to Grange Park, Cheltenham.