Christmas Appeal 2024

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Christmas Give A Gift Appeal

What is the Christmas appeal?

We support children from struggling families with everyday essentials every day, and Christmas is no exception!

For the past 4 years we have been running our Christmas Appeal to ensure all local children receive a gift on Christmas morning.

What started with 300 children in 2021, increased to 500 in 2022, 800 in 2023 and incredibly 1300 this year!

These are all children from local families who face waking to no presents this Christmas.

With the support of the local community, every year we have managed to meet the number of gifts required, however with the cost of living crisis we are worried this year we might not be able to meet our target, so any help is very much appreciated.

How does it work?

We work closely with local organisations and schools who pin point us local vulnerable children who face waking to no gift Christmas morning.

They then provide us with the age, gender and interests of any children requiring a gift.

This information is then placed on a star and hung from a tree in our Kideco Store in Lakeside Shopping Centre.

People are then welcome to come in and select as many starts as they want.

They can use the information on the star to purchase a gift for their selected child.

This needs to then be returned to us, or one of our drop off points, unwrapped by Saturday 30th November.

Rolls of wrapped paper are much appreciated also.

Where are your drop off points?

We have many drop off locations across Havering, Thurrock, Barking and Dagenham.

Kideco - Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock RM20 2ZN
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10am-4pm , Thursday and Saturday 10am-6pm and Sundays 11am-5pm)
Casco Lounge, The Quay, Lakeside Shopping Centre RM20 2AD
(Monday-Thursday 9am-11pm, Friday & Saturday 9am-12am, Sundays 9am-11pm)
Marks Gate Community Hub- Rose Lane, Marks Gate RM6 5NJ
(Thursdays and Fridays 10am-2pm ONLY)
Griffin Estate Agents - 21 Station Parade, Elm Park, Hornchurch RM12 5AB
(Monday-Thursday 9am-6pm, Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm)
Griffin Estate Agents - 4-6 Queensgate Centre, Grays RM17 5DS
(Monday-Thursday 9am-6pm, Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm)

What if I cant get down to the store?

If you are unable to get down to our store, dont worry, you can still get involved.

You can contact our team on kideco@thekidsbankhq.org or 07379575792 and they will select tags for you and provide you with the information so you can purchase the gifts and drop to one of our drop off points above.

Alternatively you can make a donation and we will use the funds to purchase gifts on your behalf.

Due to demand, we have also set up a Amazon wish list, where you can purchase gifts and have them sent to us directly. Please see that list here

Our Giving Tree

Our Official 2024 Christmas Appeal poster

A small selection of gifts collected last year.

A Big Thank you to those who have financially donated to our appeal so far this year!

These amazing Companies and Organisations have all selflessly donated to our appeal which enables us to buy gifts and allocate to a child in need.

If your work place would like to support local children this Christmas, donations can be made here. If you leave your contact information in the notes section we will even provide photos and details of what we have purchased with your money.