Gifts flooding in for our Christmas appeal
Momentum is building in this year’s Stirling Observer Give A Gift Appeal.
Readers have been dropping their gifts at the Observer offices and the many drop-off points right across the area.
Schools, businesses and workplaces have joined the army of individuals who make the effort to support the appeal each year.
Observer reporter Kaiya Marjoribanks said:“We take nothing for granted, but every year we are humbled by all those regular supporters who continue to back the appeal and those who come on board for the first and hopefully not the last time.
“We have a collection day when we can have at least 20 representatives of the various charities and good causes coming along to choose toys and gifts for the children and young people they support. Thankfully they have never been disappointed and we know how much appreciate the generosity of everyone who has donated.”
The appeal receives and distributes donations of new toys and gifts for sick, disabled, needy and disadvantaged children and young people - from babies to teenagers - at Christmas.
Among the charities and good causes which help to distribute the gifts donated every year to the Stirling Observer Give A Gift Appeal are Stirling Young Carers; Home-Start Stirling which supports families with young children going through difficult times; Stirling Women’s Aid; Stirling Council social services; PLUS, the local organisation which provides social opportunities for children and young people with disabilities; Stirling Interfaith Community Justice Group, which helps families and children at the Family Help Hubs at
STIRLING: Stirling Observer, 34 Upper Craigs (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, please ring bell or knock); Morrisons supermarket, Springkerse Retail Park; Nationwide Building Society, Port Street; Codebase Stirling, 8-10 Corn Exchange Road; Jintz Express, 1, 5 Munro Rd, Stirling FK7 7SY; United Auctions, Stirling Agricultural Centre, off the A84, FK9 4RN; ABERFOYLE: Station Coffee Shop, Main Street; BALFRON: Balfron Library; Balfron Primary School; BANNOCKBURN: Jintz
Cornton Vale and Glenochil; Support4Families, which supports those affected by a relative’s substance abuse including kinship carers; Barnardo’s; KiDS group for children with Down’s Syndrome; and Forth Valley Royal Hospital children’s ward.
Collected at our offices in Upper Craigs and with the support of a host of drop-off points across the area, the gifts aim to ensure no local child goes without on Christmas morning and that those children and their families going through difficult times know their community has them in their thoughts.
The appeal also exists to ease the pressure many of the charities face over the festive season and allow them to put resources they may otherwise have had to use for gifts into their other areas of good work.
Express/Post Office, 17 Quakerfield; CALLANDER: Callander Primary School; DUNBLANE: Beech Tree Cafe, 2 Beech Road; Dunblane Centre, Stirling Road. There is also a drop off point at The Entertainer toy shop in the Thistles shopping centre.
Any businesses, schools or organisations are also welcome to offer their premises as a drop off point or to hold their own in-house collections. For queries please call (01786) 459417 or email kaiya.marjoribanks@ reachplc.com or news@stirlingobserver. co.uk.
DROP-OFF POINTS