Key Programs and Events

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Christmas Giving Program

Every year, the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau empowers families to celebrate Christmas and other winter holidays with their own selected gifts and food vouchers. You access a bureau based on your city of residence. The Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau operates the giving program for Vancouver residents. Registration opens each year on November 1st on this website. If you don’t live in Vancouver, please search for the bureau in your city or visit our registration page for a list.

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Photos with Santa…on a Harley!

Our friends at Trev Deeley Motorcycles are hosting photos with Santa on Saturday, December 6th, 2025 from 11am - 3pm. Stop by with a toy or monetary donation and get your photo with Santa on a Harley!

Trev Deeley Motorcycles: 1875 Boundary Road, Vancouver, BC

 
(Dan Ferguson / Langley Advanced Times)

(Dan Ferguson / Langley Advanced Times)

Kruise for the Kids

This annual toy drive is presented by the Greater Vancouver Car Club Council and supports the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau in collecting toys and donations for less fortunate children across the Lower Mainland. Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 - For more information, please click here!

Toy Pile

Bell Media Toy Mountain

December 4-5, 2025 at Guildford Town Centre

Tis the season for giving and we hope you’ll be able to join us in helping families in need in our communities this holiday season.

Toy Mountain returns to Guildford Town Centre (opens in a new tab) December 4-5, 2025! We’ll be on site accepting new, unwrapped toys at centre court!

Join CTV Vancouver, MOVE 103.5 and 94.5 Virgin Radio on location at Guildford Town Centre!

For all the early risers who make a donation on site between 6am and 10am on December 4&5, Triple O’s (opens in a new tab) will treat you to a complimentary breakfast to-go!

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Pan Pacific Christmas Wish Breakfast

Stay tuned for 2025 date!

The Christmas Wish Breakfast is one of Canada’s largest toy drives and each year thousands of toys, clothes, bikes and cash are donated to the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau. Volunteers from the Vancouver Police Department and Vancouver Fire Rescue are on hand to help out and stack the gigantic pile of toys.

Join Global BC’s Global News Morning team Jason Pires, Sonia Sunger, Mark Madryga and Katelin Owsianski; and Rock 101 Willy in the Morning LIVE on location at the Pan Pacific Vancouver from 6am to 9am.

Donate new unwrapped toys or cash donation and you’ll receive a complimentary breakfast from the Pan Pacific from 6am - 9am.

Please note, the 2025 LMCB AGM will be held on November 5, 2025 at 7pm. Please message for meeting link/location.