Secret Santa Appeal
The community appeal will launch on Tuesday 29 October by Mansfield Building Society, Mansfield BID and ourselves, to ensure families across Mansfield district receive gifts this Christmas.
Members of the public can donate a range of gifts towards the appeal, which is taking place for the third year in a row.
We are looking for items including toys, gift sets, skin care, board games, clothing, colouring books, hats and scarves, chocolate/ biscuit sets, bath sets, male grooming sets, pyjamas, socks, balls, plush toys etc. The items must be new and unused for health and safety purposes.
There will be numerous drop off locations throughout the district where people can leave their donations for children of all ages and their adult carers.
Drop off points can be found at:
- Civic Centre Cafe
- Mansfield Museum
- Mansfield Building Society
- Smyths Toys- Portland Retail Park
- Ravensdale Children's Centre
- Warsop Children's Centre
- Ladybrook Children's Centre
- Mansfield Woodhouse Children's Centre
- Four Seasons Shopping Centre (from Tuesday 12 November 2024)
The appeal will end on Sunday 8 December 2024 and the week commencing will be spent collecting, organising into ages and categories, sorting into distribution points and distribution Children's Centres, Food Clubs, Refuges, Schools, Charities etc will be on Thursday 12 December 2024.