If you would like to do something to support your local community this Christmas, there are lots of different initiatives taking place across North Tyneside. Listed below are just some of the great things going on over the festive period. If you have anything you would like added, please email [email protected] with details and we will add it to the list.
- Harbour Support Services: Christmas Present Appeal via this link to the Amazon Wishlist. Select Harbour Gift Registry from the list of available addresses.
- Mindstars: Toy and Gift donations requested (any new or good condition toys, books, games, gift sets or sweets.
- Social Connections North East: Make Christmas Special by volunteering at a Christmas Day event. There are several taking place across North Tyneside and they need volunteer cooks, servers, dishwashers, chatters and drivers. Email: [email protected]
- Support & Grow North East: Christmas Gift Gather – supporting 125 vulnerable children in the local community who may otherwise go without a Christmas. Donations welcome via this link to the Support & Grow website, reference ‘Xmas Presents’.
- YMCA North Tyneside: Hope for Christmas campaign – includes gift donations, a Santa fun run and lots of activities
- The Bay Foodbank: Reverse Advent Calendar
- Acorns Project: Christmas fundraiser for families affected by domestic abuse
- Hazelrigg Community Centre: supporting a family in need
- Cedarwood Trust: Christmas appeal for donations of small gifts from businesses and the community
- Feeding Families: Christmas Campaign. There are volunteering opportunities, you can donate a Christmas Food Boxes or a Matched Christmas Dinner
- SPARCS: Annual Christmas Appeal: Donations of gifts and in particular things that are suitable for teenagers. Contact [email protected]
- Streetworx: Helping the Homeless Christmas Gift Bag Appeal 2023
- Anxious Minds: Crowdfunder for Mental Health Support over Christmas
- The People’s Kitchen: Feed a Friend for a Fiver Christmas Dinner campaign
- Well Bee-ing Hub and Café: Be Kind Give a Christmas Lunch for £20
