Sleeping Bag Tate

10/28/2025

Since kindergarten, Tate has collected over one thousand bags for those in need. His journey began with coins in his piggybank and a matching donation from residents of an encampment. Small hands can make a big difference!

12/24/2021

With the uncertainty of Omicron preventing Tate from receiving used sleeping bags, he’s been fortunate to have the continued support of Canadian Tire to persevere for the 7th year. In Tate’s words, “every bag counts.”🎄

01/19/2021

No one can tell Tate Parker he’s too young to help the poor. The Grade 5 student at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary in Vancouver has been running an annual sleeping bag collection for people...

12/26/2020

It was a brief visit to the men’s shelter on Christmas Eve, but Tate dropped off and handed out 120 bags in a 2020 kind of way.
A very happy new year, with love from Tate.

12/19/2020

This year, Tate's excited to distribute more than 120 sleeping bags at the new temporary Catholic Men's Shelter this Christmas Eve. Archdiocese of Vancouver Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church

12/19/2020

Tate at a homeless shelter on Christmas Eve in 2018.

12/19/2020

Cheryl Washenko Roehlig we love how much you care. Thanks for sending along a bag every year, without fail. And Tate's heartfelt thanks to Canadian Tire store owner David Morrison (Market Crossing in Burnaby) for providing Tate with a whopping *50* bags earlier today!

12/12/2020

Tate is so very thankful to Carolyn Brooke of Calgary for her Canadian Tire box o' bags! And he feels incredibly grateful to Jim Anderson, owner of Canadian Tire in Surrey (102nd) for donating six bags! And just this morning, Tate was shocked and felt unbelievably blessed to receive *60 bags* from store owner Jim Smethurst of SW Marine (Ontario St) Canadian Tire. These bags will bring smiles to the folks they touch this Christmas Eve. Thank you Canadian Tire for your support over the past six years.

12/16/2019

More people lack homes in Vancouver than any time since... it’s hard to say exactly. And of the 614 people who are *unsheltered* and living on the streets this holiday season, Tate is trying to bring some warmth with sleeping bags. Thanks to a generous donation by FGL Sports, he is taking a different approach: stuffing our VW Atlas with bags and handing them to unsheltered homeless folks around the Lower Mainland. This will be Tate’s fifth year distributing sleeping bags, with more than 500 to date.

12/24/2018

https://twitter.com/danmcgarvey/status/1076958489358958592?s=12

“A nice little Christmas feels iPhone video story about 8 year-old Tate who buys sleeping bags from people for $1 and hands them out to homeless people in freezing cold Calgary at Christmas time. He just handed out nearly 100, marking three years of doing this in https://t.co/SZNaxk2y98...

12/22/2018

Tate and a classmate had a good time meeting everyone at the Mustard Seed this morning... Merry Christmas!

It’s Tate Parker’s third year of collecting and handing out sleeping bags to homeless people outside the Mustard Seed in downtown Calgary. And he shows no signs of stopping any time soon.