If you would like a confirmation of receipt, provide your name and postal address or email address. Please include details of the value of the gift card or voucher. Please mail vouchers and cards, marked Stirling Observer Toy Appeal, c/o Kaiya Marjoribanks, Mailroom, One Central Quay, Glasgow, G3 8DA.

Vouchers – Given the current pandemic, we are also giving the option of donating gift cards and vouchers to offer some flexibility to both those donating and to the charities.

This year we would ask supporters not to donate cuddly toys if possible as the charities may have difficulty placing these for health and hygiene reasons.

Toys and gifts – Gifts should be new and unused and left unwrapped.

If you would like to organise a collection of gifts at your workplace, school or group, would like to be one of our official drop-off points, or would simply like more information, contact the Observer by phone on (01786) 451110 or email: or will aim to photograph and feature as many collections as possible in the Observer in the run-up to Christmas. “Let’s make sure when Santa climbs down their chimneys this Christmas he doesn’t go in empty handed.” The Stirling Observer Give a Gift Appeal is back for another year “Whether faced with a health issue, poverty, or struggling with family circumstances, the appeal is always a way to show these vulnerable but brave young people that they are not as isolated as they might think, and that their community cares. “All we are asking is that those who can donate do donate what they comfortably can. “Given the challenges everyone has faced, while people’s willingness to support Give A Gift may be strong, we can’t be sure how many of our usual supporters are able to do so again, which is understandable. “This year many of those challenges still remain, and indeed new ones have emerged as charities are called upon more than ever and more and more families are using foodbanks and struggling to pay the bills.Ĭlick here for more news and sport from the Stirling area. Observer reporter and appeal organiser Kaiya Marjoribanks said: “Last year was a particularly challenging year for everyone but we were overwhelmed with the support the appeal received, allowing us to help even more good causes than ever before. It also exists to ease the pressure many charities face over the festive season, allowing them to put resources they may otherwise have had to use for gifts into their other areas of good work.

The appeal also aims to respond to any one-off approaches from organisations which deal with children or young people whom they feel may be facing a difficult festive season.

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