Christmas Charity Shoe boxes

Nanamia

I'm now in the process of putting a bit of a hamper together for a Manchester homeless charity Barnabus. Did a bit of ringing around and the truly lovely lady on the phone Yvonne gave me a few ideas- disposable razors, boxer shorts, socks, gloves, roll on deodorant and tubes of shaving gel. Going to try and deliver it this week seems silly to hang on until Christmas when it's cold out there now! Yvonne also said they were "tinned out" at the moment with harvest festivals so plan to make some cakes, mince pies etc a little nearer Christmas. Hth somebody

bubblegumcola

SugarSpun wrote: »

There is a secular option:

http://www.marysmeals.org.uk/

Look at the section called The Backpack Project

I don't know if any of you heard about a girl in Scotland called Martha who was doing a blog about the quality of the school meals she was getting? She took a photo of her school dinner every day and talked about it on the Internet...her blog ended up raising thousands of pounds for the charity Mary's Meals. The BBC did a programme recently about her called Martha, Meals and Malawi...it showed the children receiving these backpacks in part of the programme and the impact it has on them. It might only have been shown in Scotland but you might find it on the BBC I player?

caitlyn22

I'm not knocking what they do, but anyone who thinks Mary's Meals is a secular option is not reading the website - aside from the origin of their name ("Tony Smith had also been touched by a small village in Bosnia called Medjugorje, where it is claimed the Virgin Mary has been appearing since 1981...Conscious of Mary’s part in his life and the blessings that had stemmed from Medjugorje, he gave his idea the name ‘Mary’s Meals’ and placed the whole project in the hands of the Virgin Mary.") one of the ways you can show your support is "prayer"!

Uniscots97

Anyone know of any shoebox appeals for homeless in Scotland?

LunaLady

I have already taken my OCC shoe box in.

St the end of the day it is a Christian Charity, so they spread a Chritsian message. It isnt brainwashing. The children are so happy to receive something.

LunaLady

SugarSpun wrote: »

If anyone is interested this is the booklet (translated into over 100 languages).

Its not exactly hardcore biblical material is it.

themull1

popularfurball wrote: »

Is anyone aware of stuff for kids in hospital over christmas or similar? If not will rock with the post pals thing.

Ive looked at homeless charities and st mungos do collect stuff but about all i can find.

I would presume that the kids in hospitals parents give them gifts? and i saw a programme a while ago about the shoebox appeal where the boxes were taken home by staff looking after kids in an orphanage and the kids didnt get any gifts. So i don't do this anymore.

indebtinsussex

LunaLady wrote: »

Its not exactly hardcore biblical material is it.

for me as a Christian its making me cringe a bit with the cheesiness!

The charity I help out with at our local church are making food hampers this year for local families/people in poverty. we've also been approached by the local food bank as well so will be trying to obtain as much food for them as well in addition.

we dont put anything religious in the box as its not the aim of the charity. the people we help know that we're a church charity and are more than welcome to come to church if they want to, but theres no obligation and its left at that

kez_s

Does anyone know of any appeals going in the Dorset area? I've searched the net but can only find Shelter and Centre Point which I believe don't cover the Dorset area.

We were in Poole yesterday afternoon and there was a young girl in the car park of only about 18 who was playing a whistle instrument and it really got to me, we gave her some money but it's been constantly on my mind ever since and whilst we try to do what we can over the year and at Christmas, I really want to do something else.

Jaspersmum

Hello
I got together a shoebox for a child a few weeks ago, then stupidly forgot about the date it needed to be handed in by (18th November).
Does anyone know of any organisation still accepting donations?
Thank you
JM