The deadline to participate in our Secret Senior Valentine Bag project is February 9th. All completed bags, as well as supply donations, are due at our office by 6 pm on that date.
Additional Pickup areas are currently available for the following locations - email Vicki Neilson if this is more convenient. This will allow us to gauge vehicle space at each location:
Wednesday, February 2nd - 10 am - Ashland
Saturday, February 5th - 12 noon - Westchester Commons
Saturday, February 5th - 2 pm - Short Pump area
Sunday, February 6th - 3 pm - Boulevard and Broad areas
Many of the "Personal" bags are still available if interested. Note: Personal bags DO NOT mean that you have to provide everything listed. We ask that you at least be able to provide one of them when making a complete bag.
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Our Secret Senior Valentine Bag project is a great way to recognize independently living Seniors and disabled persons within the Greater Richmond Metropolitan Area. This project began as a way to reuse items left from our Community Thanksgiving Feast and has grown to include approximately 600-800 recipients, depending on the interest of our volunteers.
Our goal for 2022 is approximately 600 bags...including approximately 125 "personal bags".
Here is a quick, and dirty, recap for anyone wanting more details:
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Valentine Bags are due to our office by February 9th.
- They don't have to be "bags" per se - be creative :)
- If you can't make a bag, consider donating items and we'll make up bags using various donations.
- MAKE SURE YOU USE A REMOVABLE TAG so we know if it's male, female or a personal bag.
- We all know that things happen so PLEASE let us know ASAP if you are unable to fulfill your commitment. This will allow time to make up replacement bags.
- It's not necessarily required to do a certain number of items. Use your own judgement. "travel size" items should probably be added with larger things or simply put more in a bag. Giving someone a blanket? Add something like a pair of socks is more then enough. Naturally if you love being generous, that's great but don't feel like you have to spend lots of money either.
- The recipients this year are not going to be in one room when getting their bags so you are free to create a variety of bags if you are signing up for more then 1.
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If you have previously signed up and would like to switch to a personal or other bag type, please go online and edit your information.
Monetary donations are also accepted by using this online link:
