It's time to stuff the bus for local charities. With Christmas around the corner, local radio station Tauranga's 95.8 The Breeze is kicking off the yuletide season with 12 locations across the city for people to come and meet the team with food stuffs and presents.

'We will be travelling the Bay in a Uzabus collecting non-perishable food items and presents that will be gifted to local charities,” says Tauranga's 95.8 The Breeze promotion manager Kelsey Harrap.

'By the end of the campaign, the bus is so full you can't even walk in it!”

Kelsey says the bus is being wrapped on November 21 and will be out and about from November 25.

'We would love everyone to be involved.”

After the bus has been packed full, the food and presents will be distributed to Shakti, Tauranga Women's Refuge, Homes of Hope, Te Manutora, Greerton Primary School, Merivale Primary School, Little Heroes Project, Arataki Community Centre, Merivale Community Centre and Tauranga Moana Night Shelter.

The bus will visiting Mount Intermediate and Pak'nSave Cameron Rd on the morning of November 25. The following day RV Mega in Hewletts Rd will be visited, and on November 29 the bus will head to Payless Lifestyle on Cameron Rd.

From December 4 -10, expect to see the bus at a new stop each day, including Papamoa, Te Puke, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga, Bethlehem and Tauriko with the final stop being Christmas in the Park at Soper Reserve on December 10.

Stuff the Bus is being sponsored by RVMEGA, Toi Ohomai, Payless Lifestyle, Smiths City, Pak'nSave, Uzabus, Zespri, PMG, Signature Homes and Moon Civil and Drainage.