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16.11.2023 - 14:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Drop-off points across the area are starting to gather in toys for the 16th annual Stirling Observer Give A Gift Appeal.
With businesses happy to take donations in right across our circulation area, we hope readers and supporters take the chance to drop their own gift in if they can.
Stirling Observer reporter Kaiya Marjoribanks said: “The businesses who help us gather the toys and gifts in are absolutely vital. We can’t thank them enough.
“Every year many of them get in touch to offer their services yet again, and new businesses also offer to come on board.
“Having such a great network has helped to build and maintain the support for the appeal.
“This appeal has always been a huge effort for the community and by the community and these businesses are very much at the heart of that.
“The last few years have been particularly difficult for everyone,” added Kaiya. “There are more people in need but fewer people in a position to help.
“As we have seen in the past, however, whenever the need is greater or the circumstances at their most difficult, the people of Stirling do their best to help if they can and that doesn’t go unnoticed by us or by the charities.”
Running since 2008, the appeal receives and distributes donations of new toys and gifts for sick, disabled, needy and disadvantaged children and young people aged from newborn babies right up to teenagers.
Collected with the kind help of a host of drop-off points across the area, the gifts are then distributed via a wide range of charities, large and small, who are able to choose what they need for those children they support.
Among the many charities and good causes which help to distribute the gifts every year are: Stirling Young Carers; Home-Start Stirling which supports
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