After 40 years of delivering toys and food hampers to families in need, CJWW’s Denny Carr Secret Santa Campaign is handing the reins over to the Saskatoon Community Foundation. Board President of the Secret Santa Foundation Vic Dubois says it wasn’t an easy decision, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to find a large team of volunteers to collect the donations, buy toys, pack the food hampers, and deliver them to 800 families before Christmas. It was also getting harder to find a business willing to rent their space, and have it transformed into Santa’s workshop for two full months. Instead, the Saskatoon Community Foundation will be taking over.

Dubois explains that the cash reserves collected through the campaign over the years have been put into a legacy endowment fund set up through the Saskatoon Community Foundation in the name of Denny Carr. The interest that is made off the money in the fund will be allocated to different organizations. Dubois says, “So, it very well could be going forward to Salvation Army. One year it could be Crisis Nursery. It could be the YWCA who have a women and children’s area.”

If people still wish to donate money to Secret Santa, they can do so on the Saskatoon Community Foundation website. However, Dubois says anyone looking to donate toys should take them directly to the Salvation Army.