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Sites we like for gift ideas, parenting and family gifting, the Christmas toy appeals we’ve checked, and the free things we make ourselves. We list a site only after reading it, and only when it helps someone choosing, planning or giving a gift.

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  • Kids Inspire Christmas Appeal: Essex children’s charity collecting new, unwrapped gifts for children aged 0 to 18, dropped off 2 November to 9 December 2026.
  • The Teesside Charity Christmas Toy Appeal: New, unwrapped gifts for children aged 0 to 16 across the Tees Valley, through collection points, workplace boxes or its wish list.
  • Spirit of Christmas: Selby charity whose toy bank and 2026 wish list appeal put new toys in the hands of local children who would otherwise go without.
  • Key to Life Foodbank Christmas Appeal: South Tyneside food bank collecting new, unwrapped toys, gifts and vouchers for teens alongside festive food this Christmas.
  • Birmingham & Solihull Women’s Aid at Christmas: Refuge charity asking for new, unwrapped gifts for women and children, delivered by 4 December; arrange the drop-off first.
  • Hull Women’s Aid: Hull refuge charity whose Christmas gift appeal asks for new, unwrapped gifts for the children and mums it supports.
  • The Salvation Army Christmas Present Appeal: Local Salvation Army centres collect new, unwrapped toys and gifts until mid-December for children who would otherwise get none.
  • GOSH Charity: donate toys and games: Great Ormond Street’s Gifts in Kind team lists the new, sealed toys and games its wards can take, with festive giving 1 to 16 December.
  • Shooting Star Children’s Hospices toy donations: Children’s hospice taking new, unwrapped toys at Shooting Star House in Hampton until 22 December, plus its care team’s wish list.
  • Family Action Christmas Toy Appeal: National charity whose Christmas Toy Appeal gives presents to families in hardship; donate online or run a company toy collection.
  • Alder Hey Children’s Charity: donate toys and gifts: Liverpool children’s hospital charity taking new toys and gifts for its wards, with ideas by age, alongside its Christmas 2026 appeal.
  • Wood Street Mission Christmas Appeal: Manchester charity collecting new, unwrapped toys, gifts and books for children aged 0 to 14 until 11 December; families choose the gifts.
  • Nigel Prosser Foundation Christmas Present Appeal 2026: New, unwrapped gifts for children and young people, for a hospital children’s ward and families of children with SEND, by 13 December 2026.
  • KidsOut: The Giving Tree: A workplace alternative to Secret Santa: buy a gift or donate so a child living in a refuge gets a present; 73,269 toys given last Christmas.
  • Glasgow Women’s Aid: Mother Claus Gift Appeal 2026: Gift tags, a 12 Day Christmas Challenge and wish lists for the children, teenagers and women the Glasgow refuge charity supports.
  • Solace Women’s Aid: London domestic abuse charity: a donation of £7 provides new toys and books for a child in one of its refuges.
  • Harbour: North East domestic abuse charity whose donations buy toys for the children living in its refuges and food for women arriving.
  • Baby Bank Network: Santa’s Sack Appeal: Bristol baby bank’s Christmas appeal, with an Amazon wishlist and toiletry drives for the families it supports.
  • E5 Baby and Children Bank: Hackney baby bank giving local families baby and children’s essentials; its home page links to its wishlist.
  • Leeds Baby Bank wishlist: Leeds baby bank’s wishlist of essential new items for families with under-4s; buggies and cots are needed most now.
  • The Kids Bank HQ: Thurrock baby and children’s bank for ages 0 to 12, with an Amazon wishlist of the items it needs most.
  • Little Stars: Santa’s Little Stars: Shrewsbury baby bank collecting new, unwrapped toys in their packaging for children aged 0 to 17 this Christmas.
  • Together Trust: Together for Christmas: North West charity raising money for a present or voucher for every child in care, young person and adult it supports this Christmas.
  • The TOY Project: London charity that recycles unwanted toys and provides toys to children, hospitals and schools, with a Christmas wish list for children in need.
  • The Toy Appeal: North West charity giving a sack of toys at Christmas to children aged 2 to 17 living in poverty, referred by schools, refuges and food banks.
  • Action for Children Secret Santa: The UK children’s charity’s Christmas appeal: donate or buy a virtual gift so its local services can give vulnerable children a present.
  • Cash for Kids Mission Christmas: The UK’s biggest toy appeal: new gifts for local children through its online gift list and drop-off points, 16 November to 17 December 2026.

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