As a Church, we send several hundred shoeboxes to Blythswood Care every year.  In 2025 our Church sent 475 filled shoeboxes to them.  Our shoeboxes were collected in October. In the last thirty years the charity has distributed more than 2.5 million boxes – each one different, each one personal, each one an expression of the care and kindness shown to a stranger in need.

Filled with small practical items such as toiletries, stationery and clothing, the individually-wrapped boxes are distributed in schools, hospitals, orphanages, care homes and to households in very low income communities. Last year many shoeboxes went to people affected by the war in Ukraine.

Watch the 2024 video from Blythswood

Margo (pictured below) is now collecting for the 2026 shoebox appeal. Donations can be left at the back of the Church.  Thank you for your support.

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A Charity lunch in the Church Hall on Friday 11th October 2024 raised a very generous £537.50 for the appeal.  Forty people tucked into home made soup, a roast beef lunch and banoffee trifle followed by tea or coffee.  A big thank you to Frinton Road Butchers for providing the meat and to the chef, our Minister Chris (pictured below) and his wonderful team of volunteers. The annual Holland Singers Concert in October 2024 raised £312.53 for the Shoe Box Appeal.

Your gift truly makes a difference.

The Foodbank need the following items:

The Foodbank currently has plenty of the following:

Baked Beans, Soup, Pasta, Rice, Cereal

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