The Toys and Teens Appeal 2024 has been launched!
Please donate any toys and gifts that you have for the Appeal. The toys and gifts will go to disadvantaged families in the Reading area who would unlikely to receive anything at Christmas. For full information about the Appeal please go to our Toys and Teens page.
We are collecting toys and gifts for children aged from birth to 16 years. These will be distributed in time for Christmas. They can be new items or very good quality second hand - 'as good as new'.
If you are buying a new gift please try to limit the cost to a maximum of around £30 per item. We try to give each child similar numbers of items of similar value. If we have some very expensive items it makes it difficult to distribute items fairly.
Similarly, items of very small value tend to get left over, although a colouring book with some crayons or sticker books are always welcome.
Second hand items must really be 'as good as new' so they must be clean, complete, working - good enough that the receiving family can't really tell they are not new.
Sorry, no soft toys, audio cassettes, computer games, DVDs or CDs, baby equipment, clothes. Please click on this page for a detailed list of wanted and not wanted items for each age group.
Nothing electrical or rechargeable unless it is brand new still in its sealed packaging - if it has a plug on the end and is not new, we are not insured to donate it.
Please make sure that all the pieces of a set are bagged up together and all the pieces of a jigsaw are together in the original box. Please don't just tip out a toy box and expect us to know what goes with what!! Thank you.
Please think about the older children. About half of the children are in the 10-16 age range and they will be just as disappointed to not receive anything as the younger ones, perhaps more so. See this page for ideas of what to give the older children.
Note that the last date for donating this year is Saturday December 7th.
If you have items to donate, just take them to your nearest Donation Point.
Please do not wrap your gifts - we have to check everything!
If you would like to donate something but don't have time or can't get out to buy anything, then check out our Amazon Gift List. If you buy something from here, then it will magically find its way to us automatically!
Or donate some money that we can buy gifts for any age groups for which we are short via our GoFundMe.
We are collecting toys and gifts for children aged from birth to 16 years. These will be distributed in time for Christmas. They can be new items or very good quality second hand - 'as good as new'.
If you are buying a new gift please try to limit the cost to a maximum of around £30 per item. We try to give each child similar numbers of items of similar value. If we have some very expensive items it makes it difficult to distribute items fairly.
Similarly, items of very small value tend to get left over, although a colouring book with some crayons or sticker books are always welcome.
Second hand items must really be 'as good as new' so they must be clean, complete, working - good enough that the receiving family can't really tell they are not new.
Sorry, no soft toys, audio cassettes, computer games, DVDs or CDs, baby equipment, clothes. Please click on this page for a detailed list of wanted and not wanted items for each age group.
Nothing electrical or rechargeable unless it is brand new still in its sealed packaging - if it has a plug on the end and is not new, we are not insured to donate it.
Please make sure that all the pieces of a set are bagged up together and all the pieces of a jigsaw are together in the original box. Please don't just tip out a toy box and expect us to know what goes with what!! Thank you.
Please think about the older children. About half of the children are in the 10-16 age range and they will be just as disappointed to not receive anything as the younger ones, perhaps more so. See this page for ideas of what to give the older children.
Note that the last date for donating this year is Saturday December 7th.
If you have items to donate, just take them to your nearest Donation Point.
Please do not wrap your gifts - we have to check everything!
If you would like to donate something but don't have time or can't get out to buy anything, then check out our Amazon Gift List. If you buy something from here, then it will magically find its way to us automatically!
Or donate some money that we can buy gifts for any age groups for which we are short via our GoFundMe.
Still not sure? Please ask.
