2025 Christmas Toy Box Appeal

The Rotary Christmas Toy Boxes Appeal is a national campaign which aims to deliver individual toy boxes to every child in every domestic abuse refuge in the UK this Christmas.

Behind the sparkle of the festive season, thousands of children across the UK and Ireland live with the hidden impact of domestic abuse and family breakdown. For them, Christmas can be a time of fear and uncertainty rather than joy.

Each box costs £30 and will deliver a box of age and gender appropriate toys worth approximately £80 to a child spending Christmas in refuge.

According to Kids in Mind, over 15,000 children flee domestic abuse and seek sanctuary in women’s refuges every year. Often, the children arrive with few, if any, possessions and have witnessed or experienced physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

Now in its second year, 2024’s Rotary Christmas Toy Boxes Appeal raised almost £85,000 enabling the delivery of toy boxes to over 3,300 children across the country who spent Christmas in a domestic abuse refuge.

To find out more and donate, visit:

https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/young-people/childrens-fun-day/rotary-christmas-toy-boxes/