Our Story
Making a difference
We are Sarah and Emily Dahlgren. We are 17 & 15 years old and we enjoy giving back to our community! You may have seen us volunteering around town, at the library, town events and at local businesses!
On July 1, 2019 Emily received the Junior Citizen of the Year Award for the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury!
Upon receiving this great honour we both realized that there was even more we could do to help people in our community.
Every year our local Helping Hand Food Bank gives out Christmas Hampers to their clients. Each Christmas Hamper has everything needed for a Christmas dinner; plus a weeks worth of groceries. We wanted to add to the food banks Christmas Hampers and asked the food bank if we could give away Festive Hampers; explaining every Festive Hampers will have 17 non-perishable, plus pet treats if applicable; whilst taking into consideration specific dietary needs.
Ater the Helping Hand Food Bank said “yes!” to our proposal, we immediately started writing letters to corporate companies asking for food donations. We wrote to almost 100 corporate companies!
That was how A Bradford Christmas was born!
We started to receive corporate donations from our sponsors. In order to purchase the rest of the items for the Festive Hampers, we needed to fundraise. At this point, fundraising became a HUGE part of A Bradford Christmas! We fundraised from August to December completing over 20 fundraisers!
We packed all of the Festive Hampers with the help of Mayor Keffer, Town Council, and our friends and in just three hours, 167 Festive Hampers were filled to the top.
Thanks to the support of our amazing community, on December 19, 2019 we handed out the Festive Hampers. We saw, firsthand, the joy and excitement of all the food bank clients. It was a crazy 16 hour day and definitely one of the best days in A Bradford Christmas history.
About Us
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emily DAHLGREN
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Hi!
I’m Emily!
I am 17 years old and I am the co-founder of A Bradford Christmas!
Some fun facts about me:
I enjoying reading a good book, and I would love to write one!
I don’t really have a favourite colour, I like anything bright!
I have been an entrepreneur since I was twelve years old, when I started by business, The Munchies Concession Stand!
I like tea; Earl Grey Vanilla is my favourite!
I LOVE Brooklyn Nine-Nine! It is my favourite show! I have watched the series six times (over a few years)! I know pretty much every episode title and synopsis. If you name a scene, I will tell you the episode and the season it’s from!
Anyways, that’s all for now