The Rotary Shoebox project

The Saltburn Rotary Sheoebox Project has now finished, and our filled boxes will soon be bringing a smile to those who are in need.

The project was run in partnership with the UK Shoebox charity, who send small boxes full of useful items for children, teenagers and families to those in need across Eastern Europe.

We saw this as a really worthwhile project for our Saltburn club to actively support, so we bought 100 of these empty boxes - needing to be filled with a wide variety of small articles.  Items that are always much needed are really basic - things like a woolly hat, a scarf, gloves, a sketch pad and coloured pencils for children, a small mirror and maybe some make-up or costume jewellery for teenagers. The project was a great way to help people with just a little effort and at a very small cost - but with a really high value to those in need.

We've sent back to the main distribution hub in Oldham almost all of the boxes that we delivered and the last few remaining boxes will be delivered before the end of September.

We're grateful to everyone who took part in this really worthwhile project and asked us for a box to fill.  It's great to know we have the active support of the community for our work !   The project was so successful, it's very likely that we'll be repeatigng the exercise in the not too distant future.