Our team was thrilled to lead the 2022 Winter Clothing Drive powered by Cooper Equipment Rentals, which campaigned in Sudbury, Ontario, throughout October. Our team has passionately taken on this Cooper Cares initiative in Sudbury over the past eight years. It now redistributes over ten-thousand gently used winter clothing items into the local community each year.

2022 COLLECTION DAYS

Public Drop-Off Collection Days

Community members were encouraged to look for the Cooper tents and trucks located at each of Greater Sudbury’s four Canadian Tire locations — New Sudbury, South End, Hanmer and Chelmsford — to drop off their cleaned and bagged winter clothing items on October 15 and 22, 2022.

Rainbow School Board Collection Days

Additional collection days took place at local elementary schools within the community. With the help of local radio station KISS 105.3, Cooper was on-site to promote the clothing drive at Carl A. Nesbitt Public School on October 11 and Algonquin Road Public School on October 14.

CAMPAIGN RESULTS

The 2022 Winter Clothing Drive was a great success, with over 12,000 items collected, sorted, and packed. The donations are now in the hands of our community partners such as Our Children Our Future, Sudbury Action Centre for Youth, Better Beginnings Better Future, CAMH, John Howard Society, Sudbury Women’s Centre, Operation Outreach, The Homeless Network, CMHA, and Salvation Army. 

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS

Our Children Our Future

Each fall Our Children Our Future is an important partner in coordinating these efforts to collect gently used coats, snow suits, boots and winter accessories from residents of the Greater Sudbury area and distributing them to local children and families in need. 

Community Sponsors

Special thanks to the community sponsors that generously offered their support – including but not limited to: Rainbow District School Board staff, students and parents, Sudbury District Catholic School Board staff, students and parents, Brady Storage, Toppers Pizza, Reliable Maintenance, Duplicators, Canadian Tire stores in Sudbury, Sudbury District Girls Hockey Association – Sudbury Lady Wolves players, coaching staff, managers and parents, KiSS 105.3 FM, Eastlink, Greater Sudbury Fire Services, Vale Sudbury Staff, Mark Signoretti Ward 1 Councillor, The City of Greater Sudbury, Sudbury Home Builders Association and Michael Vagnini Ward 2 Councillor, Government of Ontario.

Local Volunteers

A massive thank you to all the volunteers that helped make this year’s campaign a success. We appreciate the incredible work and countless hours spent volunteering at pop-up events, sorting collections, and doing the work to organize and execute this campaign behind the scenes.

THAT’S A WRAP FOR 2022!

We look forward to our 2023 campaign – and yes, we’ve already started planning something for next year that will surely be our biggest and best campaign to date. Just wait and see what we’ve got planned and hopefully it all works out! ? 

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for making winter a little bit warmer for those in need.