Bear Hug Gifts wraparound children facing serious health issues to provide comfort, hope and healing. You can choose from a variety of symbolic gifts to make an impact in the area that is most meaningful to you. A special way to celebrate any of life's milestones, every gift strengthens and transforms the health care experience for your loved ones, your neighbours, and your community. Bear Hug Gifts fund equipment, patient support, education, and research, ensuring better childhoods for children in Southwestern Ontario and parts of Northern Ontario.
Make a Bear Hug Gift. Celebrate someone special. Protect a child's future.
The beauty of giving a Bear Hug Gift is the meaning it holds - a special way to celebrate any of life's milestones, every gift strengthens and transforms the health care experience for your loved ones, your neighbours, and your community. Bear Hug Gifts fund equipment, patient support, education, and research, ensuring better childhoods for children in Southwestern Ontario and parts of Northern Ontario. You can send a thoughtful gift that has a positive impact on the patients at Children's with a range of experiences or vital equipment.
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When you're ready to check out, click the "My Cart" button at the top of the page.Check out
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Bear Hug Gifts support Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre, TVCC and Children's Health Research Institute. You can choose from a variety of gifts to make an impact in the area that is most meaningful to you.
As the Canada Revenue Agency requires, we need your email address to email you your tax receipt. Providing your email address allows us to reduce costs, eliminate tax-receipting errors and enable us to get you your electronic tax receipt. If you do not have an email address, please call us at 519-432-8564, and we will help you with your order and arrange for you to receive your tax receipt by mail.
Children's Health Foundation protects the transfer of personal and financial information. Stringent security guidelines are in place to protect this data, and its use and release. All other questions regarding privacy and how personal information is governed and managed by the Children's Health Foundation can be answered by clicking on this link to our Privacy Policy.
Children's Health Foundation believes that children and their families in Western Ontario deserve the best possible care and the most possible hope when faced with a serious health issue.
That is why we are calling on caring people to help strengthen and transform the health care experience in our region. Your generosity will fund cutting-edge equipment, care-enhancing programs, and ground-breaking paediatric research at Children's Hospital in London, TVCC, and Children's Health Research Institute.
Yes! Anyone can purchase a Bear Hug Gift, regardless of whether you've previously donated to the Children's Health Foundation
There are four easy steps to giving towards Bear Hug Gifts:
Accepted payment cards are Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
While viewing your shopping cart, hit the "remove" button next to the gift item you wish to remove.
Before you select your cards, you will be asked whether you would like to add a donation during the checkout stage. You have a choice to choose a pre-determined amount, or you can input any amount.
No. A Bear Hug Gift is a donation to Children's Health Foundation; therefore, no tax is charged.
We offer eCards and each of our three card types will include a message about the gift you selected and your personal message.
Nothing! Greeting cards are FREE with every Bear Hug Gift.
You can request one greeting card for each gift ordered. When you add a gift to the cart, you will have the option to add the greeting card as well. You can:
We offer you the option not to send any cards to select your gifts. As you add the gifts to your cart, you will have the option to skip adding an ecard.
Yes. Once you have added one gift and the ecard in the cart, you can add more items to your cart. When you select the next item, there will be an option to “Add gift to this card”. By choosing this option, you will be able to add multiple gifts to the same card.
Yes. You can write your own personalized message in any of the three card options you choose.
Once you purchase your gift, the ecard will be in the receiver’s inbox in the next few minutes.
eCards are sent directly to the recipient's inbox and remain active if the recipient does not delete the email. Please note that the ecard may sometimes end up in the spam folder.
No, that option is not available.
Your personal message can be 250 characters long, about 40 - 50 words.
When you select a Bear Hug Gift, you are donating to Children's Health Foundation, which makes your purchase eligible for a tax receipt. An electronic tax receipt will be emailed within minutes of completing your order.
Please refer to your tax receipt email to re-print your tax receipt. If you have since deleted your email, please call us at 519-432-8564 or email us at info@childhealth.ca, and we will issue you a new tax receipt.
Each email provider may have different spam filtering rules for their email account. The first thing to do is check your email spam folder for your tax receipt email. Please verify the email address you used to place your order if you cannot locate your emailed tax receipt. If you still have difficulties, please call us at 519-432-8564 or email us at info@childhealth.ca for assistance.
Children's Health Foundation shall make every effort to use funds as designated; nevertheless, under the direction of the Board of Directors, the Foundation retains complete control over the use and distribution of donated funds in furtherance of its mission. Our vision is to provide the best health care for children. Therefore, your selection from the gift catalog is a donation to Children's and will be used to provide support where needed most.
