Christmas 2025 and Community Giving Trees at TasTAFE
Published on: 12 Dec 2025
TasTAFE 2025 Community Giving Trees and Client Central staff (clockwise L–R): Clarence Campus; Devonport Campus (with Dave Bruford, Salvation Army Devonport, left); Alanvale Campus (with Cameron Johns, Food Bank CEO, 3rd from right); Campbell Street Campus; and Burnie Campus (with Laylah Griffiths from Laylah’s Gifts, 2nd from right).
To celebrate Christmas 2025 and the season of giving, our TasTAFE Client Services teams installed Community Giving Trees in reception areas at our campuses around the state.
Under the Community Giving Trees this year we collected gifts for a range of wonderful charities that make a real difference in our communities:
- Hobart – Tassie Mums Season of Giving
- Devonport – Salvation Army Bags of Hope
- Burnie – Laylah's Gifts
- Launceston – Foodbank Tasmania
Supported by staff and learners at our Campbell Street, Clarence and Collins Street campuses in Hobart, Tassie Mums is a local charity that distributes essential items to vulnerable Tasmanian children and families. Our donations included new kids’ underwear, socks, sunhats, caps, craft items and sunscreen, and toys for kids from toddlers to teens.
The Salvation Army Bags of Hope program, supported by our Giving Tree at Devonport Campus, received tinned fruit, vegetables and soups, biscuits, pasta, rice and curry sauces – even Christmas puddings and mince pies – helping to feed those in urgent need at Christmas time.
At our Burnie Campus, Giving Tree donations went to Laylah’s Gifts, a local charity started 10 years ago by Laylah Griffiths and her family when Laylah was just 4 years old. Each year Laylah assembles and distributes hundreds of gift boxes for northwestern families who are struggling.
Donations of non-perishable food to Foodbank Tasmania, collected at our Alanvale and Patterson Street campuses in Launceston, flowed directly to 117 local charities and 58 school feeding programs. Donations included everything from muesli bars, dried fruit and nuts to breakfast cereals, coffee, tea and juice.
The Community Giving Tree program reflects TasTAFE’s commitment to our communities, making connections and building strong relationships.
But the initiative is also a way for us to bring our TasTAFE campuses together, celebrating the end of another busy year with staff and learners from all cultures, beliefs and backgrounds.
Congratulations to our Client Central teams statewide, and a huge thank you to those who donated gifts and goods, helping to make Christmas 2025 a little bit brighter for those who are doing it tough.
