Night Before Christmas Campaign - Toy Appeal

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The Night Before Christmas Campaign provides a wealth of support for families on low incomes to help with christmas presents for their children and food for christmas dinner. It also provides essential items to the homeless, gloves hats etc as well as foodbank donations.

We donated £1000 to the campaign, and were thrilled to be able to present the cheque in person, in Morrisons Ayr where they are based

In November 2015, a 12 year old girl from Annbank asked her mum if every child got a Night Before Christmas Box like her. Her mum, Jodie McFarlane, explained “not every child is as lucky as she is, some children don’t get anything at Christmas time”.

They collected and distributed 90 boxes with only weeks to spare before Christmas. In 2016, Jodie and Isabella continued their Night Before Christmas campaign and made it their mission to spread the Christmas spirit beyond Annbank and Ayrshire.

Karen, pictured left, the BDE who recomended The Night Before Christmas Campaign did some additionally voluntary work with the charity after visiting to make the donation,

I helped them on Friday morning and learned they were struggling to collect donations from Poundland, 30 miles away.

I went to collect them on Friday night and discovered they had two pallets and wouldn’t fit in my car.

So I arranged with a friend who has a van to go get it yesterday and my children and I helped go and collect it and then unload it for them at their end. Was great fun xxx

You can read more about their campaign, and donate yourself, on their facebook page.

Karen Robertson, Access2Funding BDE based in Ayr, pictured with Jane from NB4CC

Karen Robertson, Access2Funding BDE based in Ayr, pictured with Jane from NB4CC

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