Spare a present for Christmas

On the run-up to Christmas Claret and Hugh and other West Ham content creators are coming together to support the Ambition Aspire Achieve Christmas Toy Appeal supported by the Newham Recorder, Community Links and Irons Supporting Foodbanks.

The annual Newham Christmas Toy Appeal – the 43rd , is needed this year more than ever before, and they are already receiving more requests for help this year than in any of the appeals previous 42 years.

Each child helped will be experiencing the ravages of poverty each and every day, compounded by their own bespoke combination of multiple difficulties and challenges, such as poor and/or temporary accommodation, food hunger, poor wellbeing, emotional needs, educational underachievement, behavioural difficulties, disability and/or additional needs, being a victim of personal abuse or violence, bereavement etc.

At Christmas, each family helped does not receive any extra money to help them provide the gifts and seasonal foods that so many of us are lucky enough to take for granted, instead they are expected to stretch their already inadequate income – that is already putting them into poverty, even further and it is just not
possible.

So once again the Newham Christmas Toy appeal will be aiming to provide for each child, a Christmas stocking of new gifts specific to their age, needs, abilities and wherever possible, their most wished-for gift, to open on Christmas morning, so that they can experience a real Christmas Day, rather than just another day the same as every other.

The full children’s stockings will also give each benefiting family renewed resilience and determination knowing that their community cares about them, to continue to work towards overcoming their difficulties and challenges and move forward to a time when they can support the appeal themselves – as many of the previous beneficiaries of the appeal now do each year.

If you are in a position where you can help, please consider helping your local appeal in this the most difficult and challenging year for us all.

Together we can make a real difference for Newham’s most disadvantaged, vulnerable and at-risk children this Christmas.

How Can I Help?

Donate a gift(s) to help fill the stockings

You can donate a gift(s) by using our appeal gift list at –

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/Q3LRQGEL7RFG?ref_=wl_share

The gifts will be delivered direct to the appeal – please get your donations to us by Monday 14th December, so that we can ensure that the gifts reach the children in time for Christmas morning. If you prefer to purchase the gifts yourself, they can be posted or delivered to –

Ambition, Aspire, Achieve,
Terence Brown Arc in the Park,
Hermit Road Park,
Bethell Avenue,
Canning Town,
E16 4JT

They are open Monday to Saturday from 1 pm throughout December. The Best Gift Guide can help you to decide on the gift(s) you would like to donate.

DONATE money which can be transfered into gifts to help fill the stockings –
virginmoneygiving.com/fund/toyappeal2020

 

 

About Sean Whetstone

I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball, I am also the associate editor here at Claret and Hugh. Life Long singer of bubbles! Come on you Irons! Follow me at @Westhamfootball on twitter