The Children’s Breakfast Clubs provide more than just food for underprivileged children in Southern Ontario. We offer a welcoming environment, social and emotional support, and nutritious meals to set kids up for success in school and life. Learn more about our journey! ...
Rick Gosling, founder of The Children’s Breakfast Club, met with me and my class mates to discuss his company. He began with a story. On the first day of The Children’s Breakfast Club, Rick was watching the few kids who came in for breakfast eat their warm breakfasts. He was nervous, he wasn’t sure how to run a breakfast club. He had no idea the future of the company. However, on that first day one child sat down and ate...
The Toronto Police Service’s Community Partnerships & Engagement Unit in partnership with The Children’s Breakfast Clubs will be hosting a special event to distribute items to students, to assist with Prom expenses. We anticipate 1000 students from our Breakfast Clubs to attend this event. Donations of prom and graduation-worthy gear will not only help these students attend their Prom and graduation, but it will also in part, empower these students to have a more positive view of themselves and strengthen...
Our additional programs outside of the breakfast clubs give our children exposure to opportunities that they normally wouldn’t have. In this case, it was visiting our nation’s capital: Ottawa! On February 7th, 2024, The Children’s Breakfast Clubs were fortunate enough to accompany 200 children on an exciting and educational visit to Ottawa. The 38th Speaker of The House of Commons – The Honourable Greg Fergus, graciously hosted us and we also had an exciting visit with The Prime Minister of Canada...
The Children’s Breakfast Club is holding its annual coat drive. Our coat drive began in 2011 when we realized that some of our children and families could not participate in outdoor activities. Prior to the COVID pandemic, we would have a number of pop-up storefronts at different ends of the GTA, where our amazing volunteers would arrange all the coats on coat racks, in an organized fashion. We would invite our families to come in and choose two coats per family...
The Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Campaign is back from May 1 to 7! 100% of the proceeds of the sales from Smile Cookies support charities and community groups across Canada and the United States. For the 13th year in a row, The Children’s Breakfast Clubs has been chosen to receive the proceeds from Tim Horton’s franchises across Toronto! This year, we’ve set a HUGE goal to feed 7,000 children with the proceeds we receive from the campaign and we need your help...
Dwayne Morgan is a two-time Canadian National Poetry Slam Champion. He began his career as a spoken word artist in 1993. In 1994, he founded Up From The Roots entertainment, to promote the positive artistic contributions of African Canadian and urban-influenced artists. Morgan made the 2022 Shifter Magazine list of outstanding Black men in Canada, while also winning the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Celebration of Cultural Life award and the 2018 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Career Achievement in the Spoken...
Our long time supporter Steven Moffat from Northern Producers ensured that TCBC was included in their annual Christmas Hamper giveaway. Today Saturday December 17, Northern Produce is donating and packing fresh fruits and veggies for over 200 families across the GTA. A number of volunteers, including members from the Parrot head were putting together the hamper to ensure the families are able to celebrate a health and a happy Christmas The distribution was assisted by Proctor Trucking, l. Toronto Police,...
About the Toronto Maple Reefers ParrotHead Club, the 184th PHiP-sanctioned official ParrotHead club in the world! Founded in Fall 2003, we adopted the “party with a purpose” mandate of all Parrothead clubs. Our Club holds regular social events to benefit the environment & local charities, primarily Children’s Breakfast Clubs. This non-profit believes that every child deserves a nutritious breakfast. They serve an estimated 4,000 meals each week across the Greater Toronto area. The Maplereefers held the Annual Christmas...
The Toronto Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners have been working with The Children’s Breakfast Clubs since 2011 as their Smile Cookie benefactor. We are happy to share that we have once again been selected as the Toronto Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners 2023 Smile Cookie benefactor. Next year (2023) will mark our 13th partnership anniversary. Since working with the Children’s Breakfast Clubs a total of $2,794,094 has been raised through the Tim Hortons Smile Cookie program!!! Thank you to Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners, team members and...
