Spread the festive joy: Join Our Christmas & New Year Card-Making Initiative
Last year, Fingal Volunteer Centre launched the Christmas and New Year Cards Initiative to reach out to people living in isolation. Volunteers from across Fingal created beautiful handmade cards, which were collected and distributed through local organisations supporting these individuals.
The initiative received wonderful feedback and made such a positive impact on the community, so this year, we are delighted to bring it back! We are inviting individual volunteers, families, schools, corporate offices, and community groups to join us once again in spreading joy and kindness by creating handmade Christmas and New Year cards. Together, we can reach even more people and remind them that they are valued and remembered during this special time of year.
Join us in making this year’s initiative even more impactful, one card, one message, one act of kindness at a time.
How You Can Get Involved
We welcome everyone to join, whether as an individual, a school class, a community group, or a workplace team! Here’s how:
Create Your Cards
- Create handmade cards when it suits you, with only one greeting either Happy Christmas OR Happy New Year (Use your creativity, draw, paint, decorate, or craft! Take inspiration from internet).
- Include a kind note such as “Wishing you peace and happiness for 2026” or “Wishing you a joyful Christmas”.
- Do not address the card to anyone in particular.
- Please sign the card with your first name only. For example – From Emma
- If you have an envelope, please leave it open. Do not seal the envelope.
Drop Them Off at our LPU in library near you or Send Them In
- Once your cards are ready, Cards can be dropped during a Volunteer Centre Pop-Up at a Fingal Library (Check Schedule of Pop-Ups across Fingal: https://volunteerfingal.ie/volunteer-pop-up
- Or alternatively you may post the cards directly to us:
Fingal Volunteer Centre
QES House (Unit 8C), Birch House,
Rosemount Business Park, Dublin 11, D11A9F.
Spread the Word
Encourage others to join! The more cards we receive, the more people we can reach.
Frequently asked questions
The cards will be given to charity / voluntary groups working with isolated people living in Fingal.
Groups include:
- BCIL (Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living), working with people with disabilities in the community
- Balbriggan Meals on Wheels, offering meals daily to individuals in the Balbriggan area.
No particular skill is required, a bit of time is all you need. Not feeling creative? the internet is full of examples of designs for handmade cards you can take inspiration from.
* For each card, choose only one greeting — either Happy Christmas OR Happy New Year
* Do not address the card to anyone in particular.
* Please sign the card with your first name only. For example – From Emma
* If you have an envelope, please leave it open. Do not seal the envelope.
We would like to get all the cards back to us by the 15th of December the latest so we have time to distribute them to our partner organisations on time for them to give to their beneficiaries.
Cards should be dropped off during a “Volunteer Centre Pop-up” in any Fingal Library. Upcoming event location and date and time can be found here: https://volunteerfingal.ie/volunteer-pop-up/
Alternatively, you can mail the cards in a bigger sealed envelop directly to us by post.
Fingal Volunteer Centre
QES House (Unit 8C) – Birch House
Rosemount Business Park Dublin 11, D11A9FP
Unfortunately, we can not reimburse postage.
Absolutely! If you can, please give us a heads up so we know to expect a bigger volume and can partner with more groups to receive and distribute the cards.
Please get in touch with volunteers@volunteerfingal.ie and we will get in touch to see what we can do for you.