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Team Hope’s Christmas Shoebox Appeal is an annual campaign that delivers gifts straight into the hands of children affected by poverty. Often these shoebox gifts are the only gift that a child will receive at Christmas and the joy that they bring is incredible. Since 2010, with your help, we have delivered over 2.5 million Shoebox gifts to Vulnerable Children across the world.

 

Ways to give your shoeboxes

  • Build your Shoebox at home

    Find out what to add and get started on building your Christmas Shoebox

  • Build a Shoebox online

    Using our online box builder you can build and donate your Christmas shoebox ONLINE!

Order leaflets

Join the Christmas Shoebox Appeal! Order your free leaflets and posters here to get started

Quicklinks

Where To Drop Off Your Christmas Shoeboxes

Over 400 participating shops and businesses around the country will be taking Christmas Shoeboxes from October 24th to November 10th.

Watch the video

See what you can add and get started on building your Christmas Shoeboxes here

Download Resources

Download all of our resources for schools, businesses and churches here

Flat pack shoeboxes

Flat pack shoeboxes

This year flat pack shoeboxes are available for purchase from Team Hope in bundles of 50 to make it easier for your business/group to take part.

Shoebox stories

Where your 2023 Christmas Shoeboxes have gone to!

Your Christmas Shoeboxes left from every corner of the country in November and December, loaded up by incredible volunteers! Have a look through the grid below to find out where your Christmas Shoebox has gone!
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2023 Christmas Shoebox Appeal: THANK YOU!

Thanks to your outstanding donations we were able to send 176,615 shoebox gifts to children in 12 countries across Eastern Europe and Africa as part of the 2023 Christmas Shoebox Appeal. For many of these children, this is the only gift they will have received this Christmas (or in their lives before).
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2024 Christmas Shoebox Appeal: THANK YOU!

In 2024, with your help, we sent an incredible 171,675 Christmas Shoebox gifts to children across 13 countries in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Here you can read the stories from some of the children, see how much your Christmas Shoebox gift really meant to them and how it brought joy, happiness and hope to their lives.
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Get involved by using our campaign hashtags #MakeAChildSmile #ChristmasShoeboxAppeal
#EveryBoxCounts