No child should wake up to an empty tree on Christmas morning, help us fill it with joy.

This partnership between local food poverty charity Hitchin Pantry and homeless charity Feed Up Warm Up aims to provide brand new toys for families who need them.

The Pantry supports 80+ families a week in providing food. The social supermarket model offers dignity to the shoppers, allowing them to purchase a £30+ food shop for a highly discounted price of £5 a week. Previously at Christmas these charities have provided brand new toys for the children of Pantry shoppers and families from local schools. We offer the parents dignity, choice, hope & the opportunity to purchase new toys for their children for a very small donation of £1-£2. This helps to bring joy and excitement to buying Christmas gifts without the worry surrounding the expensive costs. Many of the families from schools in the area who are struggling due to the cost of living crisis will be receiving and choosing gifts for their children this year through this toy appeal. This year with the rising cost of living hitting families hard, both charities are supporting more families than ever, this means more kind donations are desperately needed to provide toys for them.

This year we have less funding than ever and more families who would be eternally grateful for your support. We really need your help. You donating as little or as much as you like would make all the difference to a child waking up on Christmas morning with a smile on their face.

To help us you could:

Donate a brand new toy to us

Use the Amazon wishlist link to purchase a toy for a child

Or use this Just Giving page to kindly donate as much as you’d like

We’d like to emphasise that every little helps!

Thank you for your support, we are ever so grateful. Merry Christmas.

Please drop off donations:

Hitchin Drop In - Our Lady’s Church Nightingale Road (Wednesday 4pm- 8pm)

Stevenage Drop In Lamex Stadium North Stand, Stevenage (Monday 4pm- 7pm)

Hitchin Pantry Our Lady’s Church Nightingale Road (Friday or Saturday 12pm- 3pm)

Link to amazon wishlist

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/38UL9R2T6SZO1/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2