Childrens breakfast clubs

29 Feb

2024 Prom Project

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...

20 Feb

2024 Trip to Ottawa

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...

29 Nov

The TCBC 2023-2024 Coat Drive

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...

23 Apr

Help us feed 7,000 children through the Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie Campaign

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...

02 Feb

TCBC Spotlight on Dwayne Morgan

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...

22 Jan

2022 Cookie Decorating Contest Winners!

  We were so impressed with the talent we saw from everyone who entered the 2022 TCBC Cookie Contest!⁠ ⁠ From children to adults, it looked like everyone had fun baking and decorating this holiday season. We are so thankful to have been a part of your traditions and hope to see them continue in 2023! Congratulations to our winners @sashimigradephotos@tanya.czerlau and @raquellbbb. ⁠ Thank you to our friends at the Don Valley Hotel...

13 Dec

Toronto Maple Reefers ParrotHead Club

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...

21 Nov

Holiday Cookie Decorating Contest

Celebrate and support The Children’s Breakfast Club this holiday season by participating in our Holiday Cookie Decorating Contest for the chance to win one of THREE incredible local prizes! How it works: Now to Dec 15 Step 1: Get in the kitchen with your family and decorate cookies. Step 2: Post a photo on your Instagram story or in your feed of YOUR BEST decorated cookie Step 3: Tag @childrensbreakfastclub and #TCBCCookieContest to enter your creation Watch TCBC stories between Dec 16 – 20 and...

02 Nov

Our Partnership with Our Benefactor – Tim Hortons

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...

12 Sep

2022 Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie Campaign – September 19th to September 25th

Penny Oleksiak and Marie-Philip Poulin team up with Tim Hortons for this year’s Smile Cookie campaign from Sept. 19 to 25 From Sept. 19 to 25, 100 percent of the proceeds from sales of Smile Cookies across Canada and the United States will support local charities and community groups chosen by Tim Hortons restaurant owners Smile Cookie has raised over $77 million across North America since 1996 and last year alone raised a record $12 million Ryan DiTommaso’s Dunnville, Ont,. Tim Hortons restaurant...