Christmas is a time for giving and having seen so many charity shops, gifts & organisations pop up online I thought I would compile a list of some of my favourites.
1:Download the Lumos album: A series of Christmas songs covered by a number of Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts actors with all profits going to the Lumos charity. Whose aim it is to rescue disbaled children from all over the world. who are living in orphanages. Many of these children have at least one parent living who simply just needs help looking after their child.
2: Download or purchase The Children in need got it covered album: A selection of covers by famous celebrities with all profits going to charities supported by children in need.
3:Purchase a gift from the GOSH shop: All proceeds of this shop go into providing new treatments, cures & support for families and patients of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
4: Visit a Charity Shop: You might think why on earth is she telling me to go to a charity shop to buy Christmas presents. I don't want other people's old junk but you may just find some really nice charity Christmas cards or even old pieces of junk you can then reuse to create your own homemade presents
5: Donate to a local food or clothes bank
6: Make a donation to "share a star" to give a chronically or terminally ill young person a customised star including hand written poem.
7: Look into animal adoption: Animal adoption makes a really great present. You can either do this by buying a pet or more simply an endangered species. A lot of zoos have adoption programmes where they will give you a variety of gifts for signing up (Zoo tickets, cuddly toys ect...) You will also be able to visit your adopted animal if you do it this way you will get to see your name on a plaque outside its enclosure.
8: Make a donation to children in need by purchasing
Ade Adepitan's book
Cyborg Cat and the Night Spider or the countryfile 2020 calendar,I know I have already spoken of Children in need but all proceeds of these two items go towards projects funded by Children in need. This way you are helping so many different causes by buying just one gift.
9: Donate to a local good cause.
By this, I don't just mean charities but if you know someone who has set up a fundraiser, donate a few pounds. You don't gain a gift but you'll be making that person's life just a little easier. granted you don't know anyone who has a fundraiser set up. Try to find someone. Reach out you might just make a friend.
10: Donte to medicinema: The aim of medicinema is to give terminally Ill children & their families access to cinema and a break from their troubles whilst they access hospital treatments. You can donate within your local cinema or do it online.
11: Buy a gift from the Wallace & Gromit's grand appeal shop. All proceeds go into providing new treatments, cures & support for families and patients of Bristol Children's hospital.
12: Create an Operation Christmas Child shoebox: Every year the charity Samaritan's purse donate thousands of shoeboxes to children in need. These children would otherwise not receive a gift for Christmas.
You can create your own shoebox including small gifts of your choice. There is also an option to go online to create a box that they will create and a send-off for you.
13: Purchase an Eddy the teddy bear:
The Eddy the Teddy organization, visit hospitals all around the U.K, donating Eddy the Teddys to children in hospital.
They one day hope to be able to donate teddies to children in hospitals all around the world.
14: Donate your time: Simple. Volunteer helping with a local Christmas event
15: Shop online at M.E action all proceeds from these sales will be put into providing better care for M.E patients
16: Buy a Charity single:
Examples:
•Very good this year (Ho, Ho, Ho) all the profits from this go to Alder Hey children's hospital
•A world with friends' Merry Christmas with you all profits of this single will go to the word with friends charity
- X-factor charity single "Run" originally sung by "Snow Patrol" supporting Together for short lives & Shooting a tar Children's hospice both of which strive to give critically ill children the best possible care and memories.
every penny of profit from six year old Lyra Cole's cover of "When a child is born" goes into researching a cure for brain tumors.
•Pre-order Don't give up by Nathan Gridsdale all profits of this go to special needs charities around the U.K
17: Buy a copy of Miranda Hart's book daily dose of such fun this book was created for sport relief charity helping children both abroad and around the U.K
18: Visit shabang theatres shop: They have most recently released their eco-friendly 2020 calendar with profits going back into their projects to allow young disabled people access to the arts.
19:Buy a gift from the UNICEF shop: UNICEF helps transform the lives of underprivileged children. Helping buy with medical care, food, water pumps and much more.
20: Shop locally or Visit a local museum /cathedral:
Keeping the community alive & thriving is very important especially nowadays when people tend to use the internet rather than visiting the high street. Craftspeople & small business owners work really hard to make money. and generally, have lots of really well-made handmade gifts even if it does mean spending a little more money.
Most museums and Cathedrals rely on charitable donations to keep them going. Have a great learning experience. Then either donate or buy from their shop. If not enough people continue to visit these types of places there will soon be no money for repairs or maintenance meaning they will all someday disappear.
Links:
Charity singles:
Very good this year: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZM2TKZN
Merry Christmas with you:
When a child is born:
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