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Rooted in Family, Built on Community

Jandel Homes has been family run for over 50 years. What started as a small family business has grown into a company building homes across Western Canada, but our values have always stayed the same. Family is at the heart of everything we do. We build homes where families gather around kitchen tables, celebrate milestones, and create lifelong memories. Because of that, supporting the communities around us has always felt natural.

Being part of a community means showing up, lending a hand, and caring for the people who live there. For us, giving back isn’t just something we do, it’s part of who we are. Helping our neighbours and supporting local initiatives has always been a part of who we are.

Fill A House: A Tradition That Brings Us Together

Fill A House is the heart of our community involvement. Every Christmas season, we open our show homes and invite our communities to help us fill them with donations for families in need. What started in 2014 has grown into a cherished tradition, bringing together homeowners, local businesses, staff and volunteers.

During the campaign, our Sales Centres become collection hubs for toys, non-perishable food, toiletries and monetary donations. Everything collected stays in the community, helping local families enjoy a little extra joy during the holidays. Seeing a home come alive with generosity is a reminder that every gift is someone choosing to care.

2025 Fill A House Campaign Has Wrapped Up

Thanks to the incredible support of our community, the 2025 Fill A House Campaign has come to a close with amazing results. Together, we collected 498 food items, 271 toiletries and clothing items, 411 toys and raised an incredible $34,825 for local families in need.

Once again, we were proud to partner with Morinville Adopt A Family to support families across Morinville and Sturgeon County. By filling a 1,520 sq. ft. show home at our Meadows of Morinville community, you helped spread holiday cheer throughout our community.

Thank you to everyone who donated, volunteered and supported Fill A House. Your generosity continues to make a meaningful difference close to home.

What Is Fill A House?

Launched in 2014, the Fill a House Christmas Campaign is now an annual donation drive that Jandel Homes is incredibly proud to sponsor. Each year, we decorate our Sales Centres for the Christmas season, drop off collection boxes at various sponsor locations and set up our Sales Centres as donation drop off centers. We’ve hosted various events to help raise money for the Campaign, such as: Pancake Breakfast, Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction, Online Auction, Paint Night, Country Concert and Dance and the list goes on and on.

While each year’s campaign may look slightly different, our goal always remains the same – bring a little magic back to the holiday season for as many families as possible.

Beneficiaries of the Campaign

Although our beneficiaries of Fill A House have changed throughout the years, we are extremely pleased to say that all donations have stayed within the communities we serve and those in which our employees live and work.

Money Raised by Fill A House

Since its inception, the Fill A House Christmas Campaign has collected 5,410 toys, 831 toiletries and clothing items, 11,981 food items, and raised $164,175 in monetary contributions.

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Inside the Fill A House Christmas Campaign

Want to see the heartwarming impact of the Fill A House Christmas campaign? Watch these two videos to learn more about how this initiative comes together, from the Town of Morinville’s mayor sharing its success to a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible work that goes into preparing and distributing hampers.

A Timeline of Fill A House

Take a trip down memory lane to learn more about Fill A House and how our Campaign has evolved over the years.

2024: A Record-Breaking Year of Giving

This year’s Fill A House campaign was one for the books, and it’s all thanks to you. Together, we collected over 700 food items, 280 toiletries and clothing items, and 415 toys. On top of that, an incredible $22,475 was raised, bringing our decade-long total to more than $160,000 in support of families in need.

Your generosity helped Morinville’s Adopt A Family program create over 100 hampers for families across Sturgeon County and the Town of Morinville. With rising costs making the need greater than ever, we weren’t sure what to expect, but once again, our community came through with open hearts and helping hands. Thank you for making Fill A House 2024 our most successful year yet and for continuing to make a difference in so many lives.

2023: The 10th Annual Fill A House Campaign has record-breaking year

We are proud to announces the remarkable success of its 10th annual Fill a House campaign, a milestone achievement that reflects a decade of unwavering community support.

Fill a House raised an impressive $16,761, marking a new milestone in our charitable journey. With this year’s donations, we are proud to announce that Fill a House has now raised over $140,000 in the past decade. The spirit of giving didn’t stop there – we gathered an astonishing 971 food items, 247 toiletries and articles of clothing, and 231 toys.

With the donations and funds raised this year, the Morinville Marvelous Moms’ Adopt A Family program will be able to assemble over 100 customized hampers for families in the Town of Morinville and Sturgeon County. We are so grateful for everyone’s continued support.

2022: $14,918 and over 1,050 donations raised

This year, we are so excited that we were able to bring back our Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction after a few years off due to Covid-19. We had a great turn out of people come out to help raise funds for the Town of Morinville and Sturgeon County.

In 2022, we collected 136 toiletries, 141 toy donations and brought in 804 food items. On top of that, Fill A House generated $14,918 in 2022, making this the highest amount raised for Morinville’s Adopt A Family program since partnering with them in 2017.

2021: $9,065.23 and over 790 donations raised

We’re proud to announce that not only did the 2021 Fill A House Campaign surpass $100,000 of total donations raised, we collected a ton of donations!

We couldn’t be more proud of this campaign and want to thank each and every person who’s contributed to Fill A House to ensure everyone has a brighter Christmas holiday. This year was the fifth year Jandel Homes and Meadows of Morinville partnered with Morinville’s Adopt-a-Family, an initiative that has brought Christmas joy to hundreds of families in Morinville and surrounding Sturgeon County communities.

More than $9,000 was presented to the Morinville Adopt-a-Family program as well as 218 toy donations, 436 food items and 142 toiletries. This year will see the Adopt-a-Family program create and send out more than 60 Christmas hampers to families in need.

2020: $7,919.00 and over 500 donations raised

Our 2020 campaign was a huge success, despite the challenges Covid-19 presented! We wrapped up our 7th annual Fill A House campaign, generating a total of 44 toy donations, 475 food items, 22 toiletries and $7,919 in monetary contributions. Jandel Homes and Meadows of Morinville once again partnered with the Morinville Marvelous Moms’ Adopt A Family program for the campaign. All donations and money raised are provided to families in need within the Morinville and Sturgeon County areas.

2019: $9,370.00, 517 food items and 306 toy donations raised

Jandel Homes’ exclusive community, Meadows of Morinville, hosted a Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction, with all proceeds going towards the Fill A House campaign. The event was free of charge with a donation, and the general public was encouraged to attend. With over 60 people making it out to the event, they were very happy with the proceeds raised.

Jandel Homes and Meadows of Morinville partnered with the Morinville Marvelous Moms’ Adopt A Family program, with all donations and money raised going to  Morinville and Sturgeon County areas.

The Morinville Marvelous Moms

The Morinville Marvelous Moms are is a voluntary group of moms within the local community who come together to assist those in need throughout the year. We’ve partnered with their Adopt A Family program, which assists families in Morinville and Sturgeon County during the holiday season. After hosting an annual cocktail reception and silent auction event along with collecting donations from the community, all is provided to the Morinville Marvelous Moms so they can continue with the magic. They have a group of volunteers who show up at one of our show homes to sort, wrap and deliver hampers to local families in need.

“Every Christmas season, the Morinville Marvelous Moms adopt as many families as we can that would usually go without to supply them with all kinds of things – food, toys and toiletries,” says Sarah Hall, Organizer of the Morinville Marvelous Moms’ Adopt A Family Program. She goes on to explain that the campaign means so much to her because it, “is the relief of knowing that you have a community that supports you and that there will always be people there that love you enough to pay attention and help you out.” 

2018: Drop Off Location, Sorting Headquarters and $1,000 raised

All three of our Sales Centres acted as a drop off location for donations for the community and our employees.

The Morinville Marvelous Moms once again utilized one of our show homes as their headquarters for sorting, wrapping and organizing all the hampers for this year’s campaign.

2017: $15,166, 1,575 food/toiletry donations and 1,180 toy donations raised

Our 4th annual campaign was our biggest campaign yet! We expanded the Fill a House Campaign to three locations, including our newest development in Meadows of Morinville

In Edmonton, the donations are raised in support of the Stony Plain Kinsmen Club and Spruce Grove Kinettes Christmas Hamper Programs. In Grande Prairie, the campaign supports the local food bank and Big Country FM’s Big Toy Box Campaign. And, in Morinville, the campaign supports the Marvelous Moms’ Adopt A Family program.

A Special Performance

In addition to filling three homes, the campaign saw fantastic events put on in all three of our Sales Centers along with a special performance by country music recording artist Brad Sims. Brad’s free performance helped draw attention to our Grande Prairie campaign and had the cocktail reception guests dancing the night away.

2016: $12,500, 875 toys and over 2,200 food donations raised

We partnered with local businesses to fill one of our show homes in Edmonton and in Grande Prairie with donations of non-perishable food, cash and new unused toys in order to assist local families in need. The donations this year were raised in support of the Stony Plain Kinsmen Club and Spruce Grove Kinettes Christmas Hamper Programs and in Grande Prairie, the Campaign supported the regional food bank and Big Country FM’s Big Toy Box Campaign.

We introduced an option for sponsors to “Adopt A Room” within the house, taking on the challenge of filling that space with donations that their teams are able to raise.

New this year, we also offered an online auction in addition to our annual Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction to raise more awareness and proceeds for the Campaign.

2014 and 2015: $55,000 and 2,000 toys and 4,300 food donations raised

Our idea was born! We launched our first annual Fill A House Campaign at our Edmonton and Grande Prairie locations in order to bring a little magic into the Christmas season for those less fortunate.

We were lucky enough to have CFCW and Big Country come out to our Sales Centres for radio live on location during our Pancake Breakfast to promote our new campaign and get the word out to the community about dropping off donations to our Sales Centres.

We saw major support from our business community with our first cocktail reception and silent auction at our Edmonton and Grande Prairie Sales Centres.

Our Sponsors

Thank you to our amazing sponsors for standing with us this holiday season. Because of your support, Fill A House continues to make a real difference for families in our community.

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Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

   

Black Road Trucking

PJ Construction and Contracting

 

Want to get involved or make a donation?

We are always looking for volunteers and sponsors to assist with the Fill A House Campaign! If this is something you are interested in, please email us at sponsorship@jandelhomes.com

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