Everyone loves to receive a present at Christmas. But for many vulnerable children and families in Southeast Europe the season serves as a reminder of their isolation and poverty. By supporting FSCI’s Christmas box appeal you can help to spread joy to thousands of people, fight poverty and prevent modern slavery…
A Christmas box is a unique present put together by you, and donated via FSCI to a marginalised child, woman or man living in poverty in Southeast Europe.
You can join in with the Christmas Box Appeal in a number of different ways – making presents; organising a campaign at your school, workplace, or church; donating items for boxes; volunteering to help us sort & pack boxes; donating money to help distribute the boxes. Read on to find out more…
Who Will Receive a Christmas Box?
Abandoned children living in state care, poor rural schools and kindergartens, women’s refuges, prisoner’s children, isolated elderly people, refugees and Roma children living in difficult conditions. Children like Elena…
How Do Christmas Boxes Help?
These presents show people who have been rejected or are living in poverty that they are loved and help us to build bridges with communities. Any surplus money generated by the appeal will help support our long-term projects – making a direct impact on the lives of vulnerable children and teenagers.
How can Christmas boxes help to prevent modern slavery?
We ask for a donation of £3 per box to help cover the cost of transporting and distributing your presents. Any surplus is used to help our long-term projects, such as the House of Opportunity, which prevents slavery and transforms the lives of vulnerable care leavers.
But a commitment of just £3 a month from you could help us to do even more.
Find out more here.
Other ways to join in with the Christmas Box Appeal
We can create a Christmas box for you
If for some reason you cannot make a Christmas box, or get one to us, we can create one for you! Simply donate online, and we’ll do the rest, including sending you a picture of your completed box.
Deadline for Create a Christmas box for me: Fri 5th Nov
Send us items to put into Christmas boxes
We need some items that we can use to help create boxes, or top up boxes that need a little extra. Donations of items in bulk will be very gratefully received. You can find a list of what we need below.
Deadline for getting your bulk items to us: Fri 12th Nov
Volunteer: Sort & pack Christmas boxes
Each box we receive needs to be checked and made ready for transport. If you, your friends, family or group would like to help, and you live near our sorting & packing depot in Salisbury, then we’d love to see you this coming Nov! Find out more below.
Donate towards shipping & distribution costs
There is a lot of cost to get the boxes to Southeast Europe, and on to their ultimate recipients. Any amount donated to help with this will be very gratefully received. £3.00 will help cover the admin, transport and distribution costs for one Christmas box.
Sponsor the Christmas Box Appeal
The costs of collecting, preparing, shipping and distributing the boxes soon mount up. Any assistance with these costs will help us to forward plan and release more donor’s money toward our long-term projects. If you or your business would like to support this year’s appeal, either financially or in kind, please do get in touch with us: rich.parsons@fscinet.org or on 01722 580192.
We are very grateful indeed to the following local businesses and organisations for their support in 2020:
