Holiday Hope Chest

12/03/2025

2024 over 1000 families served!

2025 Goal: Provide an opportunity for community members and/or entities to enhance the lives of families in financial need by facilitating the collection and access to new toys and other items during the holiday season!

How you can help:
Venmo
Checks payable to Holiday Hope Chest
Direct Toy Donations

Contacts: [email protected] or [email protected]

12/07/2024

Holiday Hope Chest Downingtown!

12/09/2022

Holiday Hope Chest is in full swing. Today we were blessed to help provide 80 families and 300 children a Merry Christmas with our new partnership with Collegium Charter. With our largest events still to come if anyone would like to donate or volunteer, please reach out. Every dollar and donation goes back to the community.

12/05/2016

Great article

http://www.dailylocal.com/general-news/20161204/christmas-comes-early-for-struggling-families-in-chester-county

We started Holiday Hope Chest more than 10 years ago as a small grass roots effort to provide a Christmas shopping experience to families who were experiencing some hard times. It began small in nature and we served around 75 families with most of the funding come from family and friends of our...

12/05/2016

Great article about the Charity

http://www.dailylocal.com/general-news/20161204/christmas-comes-early-for-struggling-families-in-chester-county

Last event this week if you want to get involved.

PENN >> Christmas came early for hundreds of families living in poverty in Chester County.

11/16/2016

We will be collecting at the St. Joseph's Church in Downingtown parking lot this Saturday the 19th from 4:30 pm-6 pm and Sunday, November 20th from 8am-12:30pm for the events this year with the first one starting on November 26th. We are collecting children's lightly used clothing and toys (no used plush animals please). Also any monetary donations or new toys will be accepted at this site. We will have our 503c number available so all donations are tax deductible.

This is a great grass roots local charity so please consider helping out during this Holiday Season.

If you can not make it to St. Joe's this weekend but would like to participate, please contact me and I will make arrangements.

11/13/2016

Very Happy to announce we are now on go fund me so we can accept credit card and PayPal donations

https://www.facebook.com/cj.knecht.9/posts/10104097573681433

We started Holiday Hope Chest more than 10 years ago as a small grass roots effort to provide a Christmas shopping experience to families who were experiencing some hard times. It began small in nature and we served around 75 families with most of the funding come from family and friends of our...

11/30/2015

We will be collecting at the St. Joseph's Church parking lot this Saturday the 5th from 4:30 pm-6 pm and Sunday, December 6, 8 am-12:30pm for the big event 12/12. We are collecting children's lightly used clothing and toys (no used plush animals please). Also any monetary donations or new toys will be accepted at this site. We will have our 503c number available so all donations are tax deductible.

This is a great grass roots local charity so please consider helping out during this Holiday Season.

If you can not make it to St. Joe's this weekend but would like to participate, please contact me and I will make arrangements.

11/13/2015

The final numbers are in and we raised almost $1,000 to help support Holiday Hope Chest at the beer dinner. Thank you to Victory Brewing and all those who came out to support.

11/04/2015

Thank you to everyone that attended last night's beer dinner at Victory Brewing

10/26/2015