“It’s a Wrap” - Christmas Gifts Are On Their Way!

On a cool November morning, members of Swanage & Purbeck Rotary assembled in Commercial Lane, Swanage to load 366 'Christmas Shoeboxes' in 24 large packing cases onto a van generously offered up by Nixons Home Bargains to help with the onward transport to Tower Park in Poole. 

From Tower Park, the shoeboxes will be sent across to Eastern Europe to give children in Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Ukraine a gift to open at Christmas. The scheme has been running for over 20 years and sends between 18,000 and 20,000 shoeboxes every year from our District alone to those less fortunate. 

The boxes contain a variety of goodies including toys, picture books, jigsaws, hats, gloves and writing materials, to name just some of the contents. 

Pictured are Swanage Rotary Youth Chair Sarah Kidd-May with Rotarians Mike Bonfield, Sharon Westman, Chris North, Sarah Randall and Steve Parsons and Derek from Nixons  

More details about the shoebox scheme can be found here.