🧳 🌎 Pack your bags and get ready for an adventure around the globe every month with Paddington.
👀 Looking for an adventure for your child that brings out their sense of adventure? Sign up for UNICEF's Paddington Bear monthly subscription to ensure every child around the world is healthy, educated and safe. As a bear-sized thank you, every month Paddington will send your young explorer a personalised postcard, collectable stickers, and more! With each pack, they'll explore an exciting country through activities and fun facts that they can add to their very own Paddington travel journal. 📓
Everything your young adventurer will receive from Paddington each month:
A postcard from Paddington
Your child will love receiving a new country’s postcard from Paddington each month, personalised just for them!
A story from a child around the world
Spend quality time together, learning about the life of a child from a different country.
Fun & educational activities
Screen-free activities to spark the imagination. These can be logged in the travel journal you receive in your welcome pack as you explore.
How you are creating positive impact
Information on how you and your child are making an impact with your donation.
Plus, stickers, fact sheets, bonus info and more!
Paddington's Postcards
Watch their face light up every month when mail from Paddington™ arrives in the letterbox.
Watch your little adventurer burst with excitement when their monthly mail arrives. Each delivery brings a screen-free adventure straight to your doorstep. Sign up today!
✈️ Travel the world without leaving home (and without the jetlag). Designed for children aged 4-10, Paddington's Postcards combines learning and fun to introduce your little adventurer to how children and families live around the world.
"My granddaughter loved her first letter from Paddington and is excited to receive more. I love the fact that she received a gift through my gifting to UNICEF. "
A Special Delivery From Paddington™
"Malini was very happy and excited to receive a message from Paddington. She has placed the message in her box of special things to keep. "
Sign up for $25 a month or choose your own donation amount to increase the incredible impact you're making on the lives of children in need with every new postcard. After receiving your 12 packs, your monthly donation will continue, meaning you can continue to give back to children with long-term support to UNICEF after your adventures with Paddington too!
UNICEF Australia receives 100 per cent of your monthly donation, supporting children in over 190 countries to survive and thrive! Together, we can make a lasting change for children around the world.
Choose your impact on children
Starting from $25 a month, you can select your monthly donation amount and the incredible impact you'll make on the lives of children in need.
- $25 a month could provide nine children around the world each month with a UNICEF backpack, so they can pack everything they need on their path to learning success.
- $30 a month can help provide 149 exercise books each month so that children can participate and excel at school.
- $40 a month could provide 1,059 pencils every month, so children can continue to learn and play, no matter where they live.
However much you choose to give, you'll be helping children thrive to reach their full potential.
Paddington's Postcards
Watch their face light up every month when mail from Paddington™ arrives in the letterbox.
How do I sign up?
- Click the 'sign up now' button: enter your details and where you'd like your Paddington Postcards to be delivered.
- Enter your payment details for your monthly donation: your little adventurer is now helping children around the world to survive and thrive.
- Thank you for making an impact on children: imagine the delight on your child's face when their welcome pack arrives in around two weeks.
Signing up for Paddington's Postcards will set up a monthly debit to UNICEF Australia. Following your first monthly donation, which covers your Welcome Pack, all subsequent monthly donations can be claimed in your tax return. Your child will receive Paddington's Postcards for up to 12 months. After this time, your monthly donation will continue. We hope you'll continue to support UNICEF and protect vulnerable children all around the world, but you can change or cancel your gift at any time.
Please allow 5-14 days for your delivery from Paddington and up to 21 days in the lead up and during peak times like Christmas. During unforeseen events like flooding, Australia Post may experience longer delivery times than usual.
Paddington's Postcards
Watch their face light up every month when mail from Paddington™ arrives in the letterbox.
Your Questions Answered
Paddington's Postcards is a monthly subscription, where for a monthly donation starting at $25 per month you'll receive a personalised postcard sent to your recipient of choice, an activity book, stickers, fact cards and more. Your subscription teaches your child about the world, whilst providing a much-needed donation to support UNICEF's work for children.
You are able to cancel your subscription at any time.
Unfortunately, due to mailing costs we are only able to distribute Paddington's Postcards within Australia.
You can buy directly from our friends at UNICEF UK, New Zealand and Ireland via their websites.
Please allow 5-14 days for your delivery from Paddington and up to 21 days in the lead up and during peak times like Christmas. During unforeseen events like flooding, Australia Post may experience longer delivery times than usual.
If it has been longer than two weeks, please contact us via our Facebook, by emailing our helpful Supporter Experience team at support@unicef.org.au or calling 1300 884 233.
If you would like to sign up on behalf of a child for whom you are not the parent or legal guardian, we recommend addressing the postcards to the recipient’s family (e.g. The Jones Family) when adding delivery details on the next page.
When you sign up to Paddington’s Postcards, you’ll set up a monthly donation to UNICEF Australia and receive monthly packs for 12 months. After this time, your monthly gift and the impact your making for children will continue — we hope you’ll be able to keep supporting our work to protect every child.
You can of course change or cancel at any time by emailing our helpful Supporter Experience team at support@unicef.org.au or calling 1300 884 233.
Paddington’s kindness, tolerance and perseverance in the face of adversity or marmalade-related mishaps make him the perfect champion for children.
With help from you and Paddington, UNICEF can continue to build a world where every child is happy, healthy and safe. Your donation will go to support UNICEF’s work around the world.
Of course, as long as you have permission from the school or class teacher. We find Paddington's Postcards a great tool to teach your class about the world, whilst also bringing the joy and excitement of receiving mail addressed specifically to your child's class. Simply enter a name like "Mrs Smith's Class" or "Class 2R" in the postcard addressee form.
Paddington's Postcards
Watch their face light up every month when mail from Paddington™ arrives in the letterbox.