Donate to VEAP's Holiday Toy Drive

Each December, VEAP creates a “toy store” for parents to select holiday gifts and winter wear for their children, infant through age 18. Approximately 5,000 children received gifts from the VEAP “toy store.”

Providing families with holiday gifts helps alleviate some of the stress and pressure to meet the expectation of the holidays and provides an opportunity to create and maintain stable family traditions and memories. Parents do not have to choose between basic needs (housing, food and utility bills) and maintaining or creating traditions.

With VEAP’s Holiday Toy Store, parents can choose a gift they think their children will enjoy. Family games and winter wear items such as a hat, mittens/gloves and scarf are also provided. Youth ages 13 to 18 receive a $15 gift card to a local retail store. VEAP provides rides home for those without transportation, eliminating a potential barrier to participation in the program.

VEAP will accept donations of toys, games, books, hats/mittens/gloves/scarves and $15 gift cards from local retailers (Target, Kohl’s, MOA, ec.). All items must be NEW. We cannot accept used items due to health regulations. Donations can be dropped off at collections sites throughout Bloomington, Richfield and Edina listed on our website VEAP.org or dropped at VEAP’s donation drop-off door at 9600 Aldrich Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55420. Donations will be collected through December 12.

More information can be found at www.holidaytoydrive.veap.org