WILTON MANORS — Each year, Shawn and Nick’s Courtyard Café holds a holiday toy drive to benefit Kids in Distress, the counseling and health center with a mission to prevent child abuse, preserve families, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.

Courtyard co-owners Nick Berry and Shawn Bombard, along with Berry’s life partner and several key benefactors have so far collected over 80 new bicycles, which will lined up in front of their flagship restaurant on Monday, December 19, before they deliver them by truck to the child welfare service organization located on N.E. 26 Street in Wilton Manors.

Those bikes, and other toys donated by those filled with the holiday spirit, will be on display and Berry and Bush’s annual by-invitation-only Christmas Benefit, which will be held on December 15.

Courtyard Café and its owners have a long history of working with area charities and service organizations, both within and outside the LGBT community, with an eye to helping those in need. (An abbreviated includes Hospice of Gold Coast, Poverello, Broward House, the Pride Center at Equality Park, Women in Network, the Ryan White Foundation, in addition to Kids in Distress.)

Berry and Bush particularly credit five “top sponsors, without whom we could not have made this happen,” Berry noted. He especially thanked John and Cheryl McCully, Terry Syrcle, the Wilton Manors Development Alliance (WMDA), Marsha Milot, and Tony Dee of Tropics, who donated 20 bicycles. “My biggest sponsor,” Berry said of Dee.

“Last year, we had 48 bikes,” Berry told the Agenda. “Right now, I have 80 and we’re expecting another 20—at least—by the time we take them over to the kids. I’m going to have to rent the biggest U-Haul ever to deliver these.”