University sends bumper Christmas delivery to Wood Street Mission

21 Dec 2015

A big thank you for the generous donations of toys, food and financial donations towards this year’s Christmas Project

Once again, this was a really a bumper collection from the University and the amount of work put in by those organising the donations and collections is greatly appreciated. Thank you to everyone who was involved and who made donations to the 2015 appeal.

In addition to gifts of toys appropriate to each age group, each parcel also includes at least one book. This is part of Wood Street Mission's ongoing commitment to encourage children to engage in reading. They also give each family a food hamper packed with a variety of items to help the families provide nutritional meals throughout the extended Christmas holidays. The number of local families referred to Wood Street for help this Christmas has increased and the parcels are distributed to the families in plenty of time for the festive season.

Wood Street Mission continues to support families throughout the year with clothing parcels, baby equipment, bedding and Easter eggs, as well as offering a school uniform package at the beginning of the school year. In these difficult economic times, more and more families are struggling to provide basic items for their children and Wood Street is faced with increasing demands for its services with diminishing levels of donations. This is why they are grateful for the support they receive all year from the members of University staff.

Thanks also to staff in Central Stores, Goods Receiving (Sackville Street Campus) for collecting donations from around the University and for ensuring that they were ready on time for delivery to Wood Street Mission, and to staff in the Post Room, John Owens Building, for delivering individual donations to Central Stores.

Muriel Shingler (Mrs)
Rose Underwood (Mrs) BSc