How it works
UPDATE
We did it! We've given Christmas presents and a Christmas morning to 1,000 children across the UK! And now we're going to give them a Christmas afternoon through Christmas Dinner...
The support this year has been overwhelming, to the level where we have had more sponsors step forward than children are available. The children our Toy Appeal supports have nothing, which means whilst their Christmas morning is made they will still go hungry for the rest of Christmas Day.
To combat this, and to give our sponsors, Sedulo team, clients and friends the opportunity to make a positive change we’re adding on the ability to provide a Christmas Dinner for a child in YOUR city!
Giving a child a Christmas in the Sedulo Christmas Toy Appeal couldn't be easier
All you need to do is…
- 1. Select a child to sponsor from our sponsorship lists
- You can select as many children as you like in as many UK cities as you like!
- 2. Purchase gifts based on their interests, age and gender
- We recommend spending around £30 per child, but you can spend as much as you like as it all helps. Make your money go further by finding multi-buy offers at the likes of The Entertainer too.
- 3. Deliver your gifts to your most local Sedulo drop-off point as soon as you can (but with an absolute deadline of 8th December)
- Location addresses are on the Contact page and will be on your sponsorship confirmation email. Every day counts for our charities and families at this time of year, so the earlier you can get the presents across to us the better.
- 4. We top up your gifts with extra presents, so each child gets a FULL Santa sack, especially for them
- You can't replicate that childhood memory of waking up to a haul of presents on Christmas Day. Your presents added to the gifts we top your child's present sack up with leaves each child with a FULL Santa sack, lovingly made bespoke for them.
- 5. Join us at our reverse Santa's grotto events
- Our Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool reverse-style grottos bring together sponsors, Sedulo team members, charities and all of our children. Parents enjoy a mulled wine and a mince pie whilst children eagerly await the arrival of Santa himself so they can give him a sack of presents to pass on to another child less fortunate than themselves (whilst also getting in a sneaky word with what's on their Christmas list this year).
- 6. Our charities, schools and carers deliver the sacks to your chosen child
- Our network of charities, schools and carers take the present sacks away at our grottos to deliver them to the children supported in the Christmas Toy Appeal ready for Christmas Day
...And then our elves get to work
Once all of the festivities are complete, Santa, his team of elves and our charities deliver the presents to the families the Christmas Toy Appeal supports across the UK ready for Christmas Day.
The need for the Christmas Toy Appeal this year is greater than ever, which is why we want to make it bigger and better than ever.
Without this support that you’re providing, under normal circumstances, these families will wake up on Christmas to find Santa hasn’t been to visit, so thank you in advance from ourselves and our supported charities and families.
What it means
See how the Sedulo Christmas Toy Appeal positively impacts the children, charities and sponsors involved…
Thank you to all of our individual & business sponsors so far...
Without your support, initiatives like the Sedulo Christmas Toy Appeal cannot happen.
A huge thank to everyone who has given a child in poverty a Christmas Day so far…