Love Christmas Campaign 2022

Love Christmas is a national initiative, growing through a network of thousands of churches and other local organisations, connecting people of all faiths and none.

Our diocesan 2021 campaign was extremely successful. We worked closely with Age UK Northants & Beds, Level Trust Luton, The Children’s Trust Northampton, Daisy Chain Children & Family Centres, Milton Keynes, Slough Borough Council and other organisations to ensure that all the donations we received were distributed to those genuinely in need. Of course the need was far greater than we could have ever imagined. With the generous support, kindness and hard work of many of our schools and parishes, and with additional support from Morrisons and Waitrose as well as Radio Host Bernie Keith and his team and listeners at BBC Radio, we were able to collect, sort, pack, and distribute over 550 Bags of Kindness containing gifts and toys across the diocese covering over 1500 local people. These items ranged from toys, books, games, puzzles, chocolates to luxury biscuits, slippers, socks, gloves and scarves, perfumes and aftershaves, makeup and jewellery, colouring books and baby gifts. All of which were so gratefully received by the organisations involved and put smiles on lots of faces at Christmas.

This year, with the continuing cost of living crisis, and even more help being required in all areas of the diocese we are planning to support many more in-need individuals and groups including – families with children, the elderly, the lonely and isolated, young carers, children from broken homes, children in care, young people leaving the care system, children from families suffering domestic abuse etc.

We would like to invite our schools and parishes to join in this campaign of kindness and generosity by collecting donations of much needed gifts, to put smiles on the faces of young families, children and the elderly living in isolation or poverty.