VOLUNTEER
Have fun and do great things!
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Chatham Goodfellows!
Every year, we are thrilled with the wonderful people who step forward to help us organize toys and food, pack hampers, do deliveries and so much more. If you belong to a baseball team, book club, scout group, yoga group, etc., we encourage you to come forward as a group and have fun doing great work within our community.
We welcome back all our volunteers from past years and hope more people will sign up to help us with this important community service. High school students requiring volunteer hours are more than welcome to join us and one of the Chatham Goodfellows Board members will be happy to sign your volunteer form.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Chatham Goodfellows!
Please read the following information about the many opportunities to volunteer with the Chatham Goodfellows in 2025:
PORCHLIGHT CAMPAIGN NIGHT – Monday December 1st, 2025 – various neighborhood locations
Volunteers will work with a team leader and have a designated route to collect toys, food and monetary donations for individual households that leave their porchlight on. Your team will gather at a specified area and time where the team leader will distribute aprons, provide routes and instructions along with some safety tips. You’ll take your route and begin walking, going to the residents with porch lights on, for approx. an hour or two at most. Once your route is complete, you’ll provide the apron back to your team leader at the predefined gathering location. Please select this option from the list below if you are interested in volunteering.
STREET SALES CAMPAIGN – Friday December 12th, 2025 and Saturday December 13th, 2025 – various 2 hour shift times – various locations
The Street Sales Campaign organizes volunteers to stand at the entrance of local businesses with a distinct red Chatham Goodfellows apron and ask patrons of the business if they would like to support the Chatham Goodfellows campaign. If they would like to help, they have an option of providing cash or a bank/credit card tap using a “tip tap” machine in predefined selectable increments. There’s also an option for e-transfers, for which the email address is printed within the newspaper, and the individual can make at a later time. In return for a donation, you can offer the individual a Chatham Goodfellows annual newspaper.
If interested in volunteering for this event, please select the option below and complete QUESTIONS #1 and #2 within the registration form.
If you require more information on this event please email StreetSalesInfo@chathamgoodfellows.ca
TOY PACKING EVENT – Monday December 8th through Thursday Dec 11th, 2025 – at the former Peavey Mart (TSC Store) (787 St. Clair Street, Chatham Ontario)
The Chatham Goodfellows Toy Committee will be holding their Annual Toy Packing event over a 4- night span. This event consists of individuals or groups from the community volunteering on one of the designated nights to put toy bags together. Each person will line up and receive a bag with a male or female designation with an assigned age. The person will then move between the different station’s setup with the age ranges and gender and select one or two items to put inside the bag. There will be multiple stations (ie: toys, hats/mitts, books, etc.) to go through and you’ll be selecting the appropriate items. Once all stations have been completed, the bag will be verified to ensure that all stations and age-appropriate items have been selected. Once the bag has been verified, bring the bag to the next station where the bag will be packed among other age and gender like bags. If you have time, you can line back up at the end of the line to go through the stations again. This is a very popular event among children in which they get to select toys from a table full of toys and know they’ll make a difference in another child’s life who may not have had this opportunity without their help. This is a great opportunity for parents/coaches/leaders of youth teams/groups to come together to instill the power of giving to a young mind.
TOY DELIVERY EVENT – Dec 17th, 2025 – starts at 5:00pm – at the former Peavey Mart (TSC Store)
This will involve meeting at the former Peavey Mart (TSC Store) located at (787 St. Clair Street, Chatham Ontario) and lining up in your vehicle and driving up to the designated doors where a few toy bags will be placed in your vehicle. Address cards that correspond to the toy bags will be provided. This will require a valid driver’s license, a vehicle and ideally another individual to help navigate and drop off the toys. Whether you have a half hour or 3 hours, anytime is a big help. If interested in volunteering for this event, please select this event option below.
FOOD PACKING EVENT – Thursday December 18th, 2025 – 8am-noon – Spirit and Life Center
The location of this event is the Spirit and Life Centre located at 184 Wellington St W, Chatham, ON N7M 1J6, Canada. This event will involve individuals set up in an assembly line formation on both sides of a conveyor belt. Two separate assembly lines will be created. Everyone on the assembly line will have a specific task of placing a specific food item into a food box that will travel down the line. We’ll need individuals who will stack additional cases/boxes of items behind the assembly line as well as individuals who will be breaking/cutting boxes for recycling. Full instructions will be provided the morning of the event. Ideally the individual will start at 8am and commit to approx. 4 hours until the approx. 1500 food boxes are completed. Individuals may want to bring gardening gloves for a better grip as well as have a couple of layers of clothing since outdoor doors will be opening and closing within the hall. If interested in volunteering for this event, please select this event option below.
FOOD DELIVERY EVENT – Thursday December 18th, 2025 – starting at noon – Spirit and Life Center
The location of this event is the Spirit and Life Centre located at 184 Wellington St W, Chatham, ON N7M 1J6, Canada. This event will involve individuals walking into the Spirit and Life Centre and filling in a brief form prior to receiving their deliveries. Once filled in, the address cards will be provided, and you’ll drive up to the doors and someone will load the food hampers into your vehicle. The address cards will correspond with the boxes provided. This event will require a valid driver’s license, a vehicle and ideally another individual to help navigate and drop off the food hampers. Whether you have a half hour or 3 hours, anytime is a big help. If interested in volunteering for this event, please select this event option below.
We can’t do this without you. Thank you for volunteering!
The Chatham Goodfellows and the Chatham community are committed to ensuring that there is “No Child Without a Christmas”!
Any other inquiries can be directed to GeneralInquiries@chathamgoodfellows.ca.
The Chatham Goodfellows and the Chatham community are committed to ensuring that there is “No Child Without a Christmas”!
Any other inquiries can be directed to GeneralInquiries@chathamgoodfellows.ca.