Variety - the Children's Charity Logo
Get Help
Donate Now

Variety WA Toy Bank

One small toy. A moment that changes everything.

For 30 years, Toy Bank has been there for children in crisis across Western Australia, collecting and distributing new toys that bring comfort, joy and a sense of belonging when it’s needed most.

Join Us

Friday, 23 October | 11:45am - 4pm

The Kingsman, Perth

Reserve your seat

What is Toy Bank?

Toy Bank is a Variety WA initiative that collects and distributes new toys to children in crisis across Western Australia, ensuring they have something of their own during times of hardship and transition. 
Each year, thousands of new, unwrapped toys are delivered to women's refuges, crisis accommodation services and community organisations - reaching more than 40 locations across the state, from metropolitan Perth to regional and remote communities. This work is delivered in partnership with the Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services.

The model is deliberately simple. Every toy is new. Every toy goes directly to a child who needs it. Nothing is redirected. Nothing is symbolic. This is practical support, delivered at the moment it matters most.

The Event

Toy Bank Lunch 2026

Reserve your seat
Some things endure because the need behind them never goes away. Toy Bank is one of them.
For nearly 30 years, the generosity of this community has ensured that children arriving at refuges across Western Australia do not arrive empty-handed.

The Toy Bank Lunch is where that support comes to life each year, bringing together community leaders, corporate partners and individuals who understand that what may seem small can mean everything to a child. 

This year’s lunch is an opportunity to be part of that, directly. Every ticket purchased, every toy brought through the door and every donation made reaches a child in a refuge somewhere across Western Australia.

What to Expect

The Toy Bank Lunch is an afternoon of fine dining, meaningful storytelling and shared purpose - where the warmth of the occasion is matched by the significance of what it supports.

Guests are invitedto bring one new, unwrapped toy to contribute to the Toy Bank collection. For those unable to bring a toy, a donation option is available. Through our partnership with Toyworld Claremont, a toy will be purchased and included in the collection on your behalf.
Reserve your seat

How to Be Part of Toy Bank 2026

Attend the lunch

Purchase a ticket and join us at The Kingsman on 23 October. Bring a new, unwrapped toy - or choose to donate at checkout - and your contribution goes directly to a child in a WA refuge.
Reserve your seat

Make a donation

Unable to attend? A direct donation ensures your support still reaches the children who need it. Every dollar goes toward purchasing and distributing new toys to children in crisis across Western Australia.
Donate to Toy Bank

Where Do Toy Bank Toys Go?

Every toy collected through Toy Bank is distributed directly to a child in need, through organisations that understand their communities and the families within them.
Women's refuges
Reaching children who have left unsafe homes, often with no warning and no time to gather belongings.
Crisis accommodation services
Supporting families in emergency housing at one of the most destabilising points of their lives.
Community organisations
Partnering with local services across WA who work daily alongside vulnerable families.
Regional and remote communities
Because the need does not diminish with distance, and neither does Toy Bank's reach.

The Reach of Toy Bank across Western Australia

  • Nearly 30 years of continuous delivery to WA children in crisis
  • 40+ refuges and crisis services reached across the state every year
  • Thousands of toys distributed annually - every one new and unwrapped
  • Regional and remote communities served alongside metropolitan Perth, ensuring geography is not another barrier

The Founding of Toy Bank

In 1994, Variety WA received a request that would quietly shape the organisation's work for the decades that followed.
Children were arriving at domestic violence shelters with nothing, and the question being asked was a straightforward one - whether something could be done about that.

The response was Toy Bank, led from the outset by the late Holly Wood, whose own history gave the initiative its moral centre. As a child, Holly had very little of his own. Among the few possessions he treasured was a small box of toy soldiers. When it was taken from him, it was never returned.

That experience - the particular and enduring weight of losing the one thing that was yours - became the founding principle of everything that followed.

The toy soldier remains Toy Bank's enduring symbol. Not because it is sentimental, but because it is precise. It captures, with unusual clarity, what this program understands that others can miss: that for a child who has lost everything, a single small object can carry a significance entirely disproportionate to its size.

General FAQs

Toy Bank is a Variety WA program that has collected and distributed new toys to children in crisis across Western Australia since 1994. Toys are delivered to women's refuges, crisis accommodation services and community organisations - including in regional and remote WA - through a partnership with the Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services.

Toy Bank toys go to children who have arrived at refuges and crisis services across Western Australia, most often as a result of domestic violence or acute family crisis. Every toy is new, unwrapped, and given directly to a child.

Toys are distributed to more than 40 refuges and crisis services across Western Australia, including in regional and remote communities, in partnership with the Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services. 

Every toy distributed through Toy Bank is new and unwrapped. This is a deliberate commitment - ensuring that every child receives something that feels like it was chosen for them specifically, not passed on from somewhere else.

The primary way to contribute is through the annual Toy Bank Lunch, where guests are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy or donate at the point of ticket purchase. Direct donations are also welcome at any time. See the event details below. 

Toy Bank was founded in 1994 by Variety WA and led by the late Holly Wood, whose own experience of childhood poverty - and the loss of a treasured box of toy soldiers - shaped the program's founding purpose.

Toy Bank has operated continuously since 1994, making it one of Variety WA's longest-running and most recognised programs.

2026 Event FAQs

The Toy Bank Lunch 2026 takes place on Friday, 23 October 2026 at The Kingsman, Riverside Drive, Perth. Doors open at 11:45am and the event concludes at 4:30pm. 

Each guest is asked to bring one new, unwrapped toy. If you are unable to bring a toy, you can donate at checkout and Variety WA will purchase a toy on your behalf through Toyworld Claremont. 

The 2026 Toy Bank Lunch is held at The Kingsman, Riverside Drive, Perth, Western Australia.

Tickets can be purchased directly on this page via the link above. 

Yes. A direct donation to Toy Bank means your support still reaches children in refuges across WA. Use the donation link above.

Join us for a purposeful afternoon.

Every ticket. Every toy. Every donation. It all comes back to the same moment — a child, in an unfamiliar place, holding something that is finally, simply, theirs.
Reserve your tickets
View Terms & Conditions
Variety - the Children's Charity logo
Follow Us

Australian Charity Number CC20294
© 2026 Variety. All rights reserved

Registered Charity Logo
Variety - the Childrens Charity logo
So that we can personalise your experience, please visit / select your state.

National

NSW/ACT

NT

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA