Teams participating in the 24-Hour Charity Hockey Game are being asked to perform a good deed in the community! 

To help make performing your good deed even easier, we’ve worked with participating charities to create a list of ideas you can choose from. Is your team feeling creative? Feel free to come up with your own good deed!

We hope you can provide a write-up, video, or photo of your team in the act so we can share all the amazing work you have done with the community during the 24-Hour Charity Hockey Game! 

Huron House Boys Home

• Make a donation of food to the Huron House Boys’ Home (snacks for school lunches are always needed).
• Join the bingo volunteer list in partnership with Jackpot City Sarnia.
• Volunteer for the Chili Cookoff on January 20th, 2024.
• Join our organizing committee for the Huron House Boys Home Chili Cookoff.

Women’s Interval Home of Sarnia-Lambton

• Create a team and participate in the Walk a Mile event being held on November 18th, 2022.
• Collect children’s snack donations for children currently in the shelter.
• When holding Christmas or staff/events or dinners – think of the Women’s Shelter and have everyone bring a Christmas toy to be donated to the WIH Christmas party
• Consider buying dinner for the families in the shelter (an idea might include pizza night)
• Request a presentation for your team, group, or workplace and learn the sign of domestic violence, what a healthy relationship looks like, and the services WIH offers. 

Alzheimer Society of Sarnia-Lambton 

•  Bridgen Fair Parking! Alzheimer's have been asked to help park cars at this year's Bridgen Fair. For more information on shifts please visit their website.
• For more volunteer opportunties, please contact Amanda Rand at ARand@alzheimersarnia.ca

Community Concerns for the Medically Fragile

CCMF hosts a semi-annual yard clean up effort at Standing Oaks, a residential group home for 8 medically fragile residents, with a 9th bed for a respite program.

We strive to make Standing Oaks as welcoming and beautiful as possible. We have the blessing of the home being on a large and rustic lot. Due to budget constraints, Standing Oaks relies on volunteers to maintain the property. We hold a seasonal clean up effort each Spring (in May) and Fall (in Oct). This involves a 3-4 hour commitment on a Saturday. The clean up effort includes such tasks as raking and pulling weeds.

Many hands make light work! We would be thrilled to welcome some extra hands for either of these 2 clean up undertakings.

United Way of Sarnia Lambton

The United Way organizes the annual Day of Caring which will be held this year on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. Volunteers preregister on our website prior to the event and choose the jobs or tasks that they are most interested in doing and match their skill set. Jobs are done at the homes of seniors or those with disabilities and with low income, or at the locations of agencies. Job tasks at individual homes can range from leaning gutters, decluttering, trimming trees, etc., and tasks at agencies mike include painting, building a shed, building shelves, etc. 

Lambton County Developmental Services (LCDS)

• Join the bingo volunteer list in partnership with Jackpot City Sarnia
• Volunteer for Fusion November 10^th & 11^th 
• LCDS is looking for Foundation Board Members
• LCDS is looking for Right's Review Committee Members
• Volunteer with Petrolia Enterprises (must have woodworking experience)

Literacy Lambton

1. Host a book drive to collect gently-used children’s books and then stuff them into Lambton County’s Little Libraries (check out the top pinned post on Literacy Lambton’s Facebook page for the complete list)
2. Make your next gathering (ie. book club, baby shower, family reunion, staff bbq) a Literacy Lambton Give-a-Book fundraiser. Encourage guests to purchase a new children’s book (for babies to age 18) or bring a cash donation in support of Sarnia-Lambton’s 25^th annual Give-a-Book holiday campaign which matches kids in our community with the joy of unwrapping a new book at Christmas
3. Shine the spotlight on International Literacy Day, Friday, September 8^th. Be creative and perform a community stunt and capture it on Insta or TikTok. Bonus points if it goes viral!
4. Be ‘Book Fairies.’ Buy new books, put a note inside that it’s FREE, and leave them in unexpected places for readers to find ie. laundromats, medical office waiting rooms, office reception areas
5. Write sticky notes with positive messages for strangers to find or deliver to a seniors home/long-term care facility
6. Craft a letter of appreciation to a neighbour, long-distance friend, frontline workers, or co-worker and mail it
7. Be champions for Literacy Lambton. Follow us on social media (@literacylambton on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn) and like/comment/share to spread awareness of our programs, ways to build literacy, or why literacy matters
8. Have your team stuff Baby Bookworms bags and deliver them to Bluewater Health’s Maternal Infant Child nursing team as part of the literacy welcomes for all Sarnia-Lambton babies

The Inn of the Good Shepherd

1. Hold a mini food drive.
2. Help the Inn of The Good Shepherd Lodge with gardening needs.
3. Help create snack packs for our mobile market through July and August.