Our Santa Sleigh Christmas Appeal

Tue, Dec 24th 2024 at 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Update January 2025 - Cash, card and online donations and with gift aid claimed it amounts to the fantastic sum of £5,525. Huge thank you to everyone who donated. You are so generous and kind-hearted


Update January 2025 - Cash, card and online donations and gift aid claimed it amounts to the fantastic sum of £5,525. Huge thank you to everyone who donated. You are so generous and kind-hearted. Check back later to find out which charities we've given the funds to.

 

In the run up to Christmas 2024 this is where Santa's Sleigh will be -

Saturday 7th December: Morrisons Dorcan, 9am to 7pm

Sunday 8th December: Tesco's Ocotal Way, 10am to 4pm

Saturday 14th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 7pm

Sunday 15th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 10am to 4pm

Saturday 21st December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 7pm

Sunday 22nd December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 10am to 4pm

Monday 23rd December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 7pm

Christmas Eve 24th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 3pm

At the Ashington Way side of the shopping centre, the same side as the car wash

Please pay us a visit, we are collecting for local charities and 100% of the money we collect will go to charity

Ways to donate:-

Visit our sleigh and drop cash into our collection buckets. We can also accept card payments.

Donate online (click on the Good Hub button below)

If you are eligible please boost your donation by ticking "add Gift Aid"

Last year our Santa Sleigh Collection raised £5,540 which enabled us to give £500 each to a dozen charities:

  • Affected by Cancer Swindon (ABC)
  • BIBIC
  • Fluency Trust Organisation
  • Headway
  • NSPCC Swindon Branch
  • Prospect Hospice
  • Ridgeway Breast Cancer Support Group
  • Swindon Domestic Abuse Service
  • Swindon Food Collective
  • Swindon Parkinson’s Activity Group
  • The Samaritans
  • Wiltshire Search and Rescue

'What We Do' Main Pages:

Will you join our 250-Club lottery? We have run it for more than 25 years and in that time it has raised tens of thousands of Pounds for charity

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We give Emergency Bleed Control Kits in Cabinets to Owen’s World

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Rotary is one of the largest and most successful global membership and humanitarian service organisations in the world. It has 1.4 million members in over 200 countries.

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Giving money and support to the people in Swindon & district who need it most

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We make another donation to the charity which provides emergency shelter and assistance when disasters strike

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A brief summary of our Rotary year ending 30/06/2024

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Children's bereavement charity Wiltshire Treehouse is based in Swindon

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A Partner Club is a Rotary club that supports ShelterBox's work in disaster relief by donating over £2,000 in a Rotary year

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Rotary’s second major donation, of £208,000, was handed over on 7th July 2021 when local Rotarians visited the Great Western Hospital to view the build progress of the nearly completed radiotherapy unit.

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Brighter Futures launched their Radiotherapy Appeal in 2015. Today, 7 years later, a ribbon cutting ceremony has taken place at the Great Western Hospital

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Rotarian Terry Williams' remarkable and unique fund raising effort, living in a ShelterBox emergency tent for a week in the Market Place, Highworth

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