GIVE A GIFT APPEAL HELPS SO MANY PEOPLE IN NEED

Charities have been leaving us in no doubt just how important gifts donated through the Stirling Observer Give A Gift Appeal are to the young people they support.

Among them are Stirling and District Women’s Aid.

Manager Jessica Lindhof said:“Christmas is a very difficult time of year for many of the women and children we work with and support both in our refuge and through outreach services.

“To enable us to provide Santa sacks and hampers for the families and have a Christmas Party for those in refuge we rely on support from individuals and organisations through donations and gifts.”

The Give A Gift Appeal aims to donate new toys and gifts to sick, needy and vulnerable children at Christmas with the help of a number of local charities and good causes such as: Stirling Council Social Services; Cultenhove Opportunities; Stirling Young Carers; Stirling Women’s Aid; Aberlour; Home-Start Stirling; PLUS; Cornton Vale Family Centre and Help Hub; and foodbank charity Start-Up Stirling.

If you would like to organise a collection of gifts for the appeal via your business, workplace, school or group, would like to be one of our official drop off points, or would simply like more information about the appeal, contact the Stirling Observer on (01786) 451110 or 459417 or email: news@ stirlingobserver.co.uk or kaiya.marjoribanks@ trinitymirror.com.

DROP OFF POINTS: STIRLING: Stirling Observer office, 34 Upper Craigs; BALFRON: Balfron Library; BANNOCKBURN: Bannockburn Post Office; BRIDGE OF ALLAN: Tree House, Henderson Street; CALLANDER: Clanranald Trust, former St Kessog’s Church, Ancaster Square; DUNBLANE: Dunblane Centre, Stirling Road.