Whether through volunteering, donating, or raising awareness, supporting local charities is a meaningful way to share the spirit of Christmas. Find out ways you can support various organisations across London Heritage Quarter.
Christmas Hampers
Help us and the Sir Simon Milton Foundation spread Christmas cheer across Westminster by distributing hampers to over 800 residents with support and care needs. Volunteering slots are available daily from 9 to 13 December. Please use this form to register your interest.
St Andrew’s Club
Help St Andrew’s support disadvantaged children with enriching, fun and educational activities to help them thrive. With your help, St Andrew’s and their amazing youth workers will offer sports, creative and wellbeing activities to develop children’s confidence, resilience and sense of belonging.
Companies are encouraged to organise a gift collection at their offices to support local children. To find out more, contact trish@standrewsclub.com
St Andrew’s Club are also taking part in the Christmas Big Give Double Donation Challenge from 3 to 10 December. All donations will be matched until a target of £16,000 is reached. Find out more and donate here.
The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Help to support rough sleepers this Christmas by donating to this cause. Your donation could help fund showers, laundry, and hot and hearty meals for rough sleepers in London during the festive season and beyond. Donate here.
Sending Christmas cards this year? The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields have a beautiful selection of designs to purchase here.
St Vincent’s Family Project
Help vulnerable families enjoy Christmas fun together and donate to the Christmas Together Campaign. £5 contributes towards funding for parenting programmes, £10 could provide enough materials for a children’s arts and craft session, £20 could enable a stressed mum to have an in-house therapy session, £50 could pay for a therapy session for a schoolchild with mental health needs, and £100 could enable 5 families to go on an outing. Find out more and donate here.
Cardinal Hume Centre
Donate to the Centre and support their Christmas Appeal to give essential support and advice to a family experiencing homelessness this Christmas. £20 can go towards Christmas play activities for children living in temporary accommodation, £35 can by an essential food voucher for an asylum seeking family, and £50 can help a homeless young person get advice and advocacy. Find out more and donate here.
Social Bite
With so many local authorities declaring housing emergencies in the past 12 months, and food poverty on the rise, Social Bite are on a mission to provide 300,000 meals, gifts & essentials and emergency shelter for people in most need, including individuals and families with children. The Festival of Kindness is their big Christmas campaign, and it’s a combined effort to get hot food, a meaningful present, and emergency shelter for people who are homeless and vulnerable.
The Clermont Charing Cross are proud that the Tree of Kindness stands tall outside their premises once again this Christmas.
See how you can help:
- Bring a gift to a Tree of Kindness – The stunning 10-metre Christmas tree by Charing Cross Station has returned. Your team can bring gifts from a wish list to donate to people in need, and place them under the tree. These will then be distributed them to homeless people, families, and children in poverty in the area in time for Christmas. Corporates can set up a gift drive too.
- Make a donation – £5 could buy a homeless person a Christmas dinner or emergency winter food pack and £28 could buy a Christmas of Kindness, providing someone with a hot Christmas dinner, a Christmas gift, a pack of essential items and a bed for the night. Companies are encouraged to donate too – £1,000 could buy toys and gifts for 50 children in homeless accommodation to open on Christmas day, £5,000 could buy a thousand homeless people Christmas dinner, £10,000 could fund 2,000 food packs for families in poverty this winter, and £30,000 could fund safe accommodation with tailored support for 60 people for a whole month over winter.
- Volunteer at the Tree of Kindness – You will welcome supporters to the tree and let them know more about how they can support the Festival of Kindness by bringing a gift or by making a donation that could help someone who is vulnerable this winter.
- Fundraise – From Christmas party raffles to Secret Santa donations, every £5 raised can buy someone homeless a Christmas meal. Social Bite will help you to set up a fundraising page and on this webpage, you’ll find a campaign pack to download with lots of info including fundraising ideas and a gift wish list. You can also download social media assets, posters and more.
See What Other Businesses are Doing
Spaces Victoria have supported the charity, Kids Out, with a Giving Tree in their co-working space. Many presents were donated by co-workers and the presents have been delivered to the charity ahead of Christmas.
The Clermont Charing Cross are proud to support Social Bite’s Tree of Kindness once again, with the colourful display standing tall outside the hotel.
