Children Left Behind Christmas Giving Program 2026
Bundle of Hope’s Children Left Behind Christmas Giving Program helps connect Bay County children with community sponsors for Christmas gifts. Sponsors can choose a child’s wish-list tag from a participating Hope Tree location and register below.
Please return unwrapped gifts by December 10, 2026. The Santa party is December 13, 2026.
See highlights from a previous Santa party in “Children Left Behind Bundle of Hope.”
Please Help in the Following Ways
- Sponsor a child or children’s Christmas by picking a wish list tag from our trees in various locations
Qualifications for the Children Left Behind Christmas Giving Program
- You must be one of the following: A single parent, a parent incarcerated, in drug rehabilitation, or terminally ill (The child or children must be living with you). Parent or guardian must reside in Bay County.
- YOU MUST HAVE a Facebook or Instagram account
- Participants will need to come to the Santa party to pick up the Santa Bags on December 13, 2026.
We will not deliver or hold items for later dates. We can make arrangements for bigger items to be picked up around that date.
*If you receive a message with a checkmark, you are assigned a number and are accepted into the program.
Business Tree location. Allow us to put a “Hope” Christmas tree in your place of business. Hanging on the tree will be tags with names and details of children’s wish lists for your customers to select from. We will arrange pickup for the gifts from your donors.
Sponsor a child. Sponsor a child by choosing a tag from one of our Hope Tree locations that will be posted on our Bundle of Hope Adoption and Family Services Facebook page or message us for a list of children in need.
Elves. We need 6 Elves to help distribute gifts at the Santa Party
Extra-large drawstring Christmas Sacks for Santa’s gifts. They can be ordered from Amazon and delivered to us before November 10th, please. Note: The large gift sacks are sponsored this year by Mike Nichols / Blue Cross Blue Shield
Gifting Requirements
• No electronics or electronic games, cell phones, electric bikes, or gift cards
• No food
• No Gift Cards
• Gifts need to be reasonable and affordable requests
Current Tree locations
Downtown
Panama City Beach
We could not do this without our Bay County and Social Media Sponsors!
If you pre-selected a child’s tag from one of our locations, please forward the following information:
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Thank You!
We Can't Do This Without Your Help!
