Operation Christmas Child Launch

Operation Christmas Child Launch

We are delighted to be supporting the Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child project again this year. In 2020 generous friends and clients donated 49 boxes to bring great joy and priceless smiles to the faces of children in need around the world.

Thanks to the generosity of people like you, over 9.1 million children experienced the joy of receiving a shoebox last year despite the challenges of the pandemic. We collected donations last year from our local community which enabled us to send 49 shoeboxes to youngsters in need around the World.

We are supporting the Samaritan's Purse 'Operation Christmas Child' again this year by asking our generous friends and clients to get involved by collecting an empty shoebox from our Spa Road, Hockley office and returning it full of gifts in time for National Collection Week which takes place between 15th and 22nd November 2021.

This year we are also helping Ella and the Year 13 Charity Team at Sweyne Park School in Rayleigh by donating additional shoeboxes to them to help assist the project as well.

Pack a shoebox and send good news & great joy around the world.


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