Aroundtown Magazine November/December 2022 Edition

FEELING FESTIVE
Help make
a difference
to a child’s Christmas
Maltby and Rother Valley Lions
Static Sleigh
Fridays 9th and 16th Dec
Tesco Maltby 9.30 am to 1.30 pm
Saturdays 10th and 17th Dec
Tesco Dinnington 9.30am-3pm
North Side
Fri 9th Dec Thurcroft
Sat 10th Dec Thurcroft
Sun 11th Dec Highfield Park
Mon 12th Dec Manor Area
(Braithwell Road and below)
Weds 14th Dec Laughton, Brookhouse & Hooton Levitt
Thurs 15th Dec Model Village and Birks Holt
Fri 16th Dec White City and Hellaby
Sat 17th Dec Sheppey and Little London
Sun 18th Dec Cliff Hills
Weds 21st Dec Braithwell
Thurs 22nd Dec Dale Hill 1
(Lilly Hall Road/Columbus Way Estate)
Fri 23rd Dec Dale Hill 2
(Upperfield Road and Lower Part of Estate)
Sat 24th Dec Dale Hill 3
(Scott Walk and the side of the New Estate)
South Side
Fri 9th Dec Kiveton
Sat 10th Dec Aughton
Sun 11th Dec Aston (Lodge Lane and Redmile estate)
Tues 13th Dec Aston the Chase
Weds 14th Aston Rosegarth
Thurs 15th Dec Swallow Wood and Alpina Estate
Fri 16th Dec Laughton Common
Sat 17th Dec Throapham
Sun 18th Dec Woodsetts
Mon 19th Dec Dinnington High Noolk
Tues 20th Dec Rackford Rd and Old N.Anston
Weds 21st Dec South Anston
Thurs 22nd Dec Dinnington Church Lane
Fri 23rd Dec North Anston Lakeland Drive
Sat 24th Dec North Anston Wimpey estate
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This year has been
tough on a lot of
households as the
cost of living crisis
continues to squeeze
our finances.
Christmas adds even more
pressure to families already
struggling to pay for essentials. But
this year, if you are able to, you can
support the Rotherham Christmas
Toy Appeal to make sure no child
goes without at Christmas time.
“
If you would like
to get involved, the
next time you’re at
Parkgate Shopping
Centre then look for
the giving trees
”
The appeal is co-ordinated by Ann
Levick of Families First, plus a team of
elves who are all volunteers to ensure the
children and young people of Rotherham
have a happy, joyful Christmas day. What
started as redistributing second-hand
toys in the 1990s has since grown to an
appeal which provided gifts to over 2,000
children and young people last year.
Each year it becomes more difficult to
fulfil the requests, due to the rising prices
of gifts and the increase in children and
young people in need of a gift. However,
Ann has every faith in the people of
Rotherham, who have come together
year after year to support the toy appeal.
“There are people with little to give, who
still find some way to give what they
can to the appeal and it is something
Rotherham should be very proud of,”
Ann says.
Rotherham’s Christmas Toy Appeal
is once again supported by Parkgate
Shopping, local radio and press,
churches, schools and members of
the public. The volunteers work with
child-focused organisations such
as Rotherham Council, Rema and
Barnardo’s to find the families most
in need.
If you would like to get involved, the
next time you’re at Parkgate Shopping
Centre then look for the giving trees
which have tags on them. Pick a tag,
purchase a gift for that age range, and
hand it in – unwrapped - to any store or
the security office. You can also hand any
gifts in to Voluntary Action Rotherham or
Rotherham Town Hall.
The elves will then ‘go shopping’ from
the donations and match the toys or gifts
up with the recipients from their referral
list based on what that child has said they
may like from Santa. Ann and the team
aim to ensure all children have a gift,
soft toy and stocking filler, so even the
smallest donations will go a long way to a
child’s happiness at Christmas.
If you are unable to shop, or would
prefer to donate money,
there is also a Just Giving page
www.justgiving.
com/crowdfunding/
rotherhamtoyappeal2022
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