Christmas Collections

Christmas Collections 2023

A massive THANK YOU to all our lovely residents of Addiscombe and Shirley!
Our collections raised £6340.06 which, with gift aid, will total around £7500!

We must also give a big thank you to the Spring Park Guides and Pinewood Explorer Scout Groups, who helped enormously during our collections.
The Guides and Scouts have received donations, as well as Shirley Neighbourhood Care, Addiscombe Neighbourhood Care, Shrublands Foodbank, Nightwatch Croydon, Legacy Youth Zone, Reedham Children's Trust, Shelterbox and Roll out the Barrel Waterwheels project.

What a wonderful result! THANK YOU!! Remember, together we are stronger!

Christmas Collections 2022

Once more, so many thank yous to the wonderful residents of Addiscombe and Shirley. Despite the snow, we collected over £6300 which will increase to over £7500 with Gift Aid! This is an awesome result!

A big thank you also to our extra 'Elves' from Spring Park Guides and Pinewood Explorer Scout Groups - we would not have had such an excellent collection without you!

Christmas Collections 2021

It was an absolute pleasure to be able to hold our Christmas Collections again this December, after the previous difficult years of Covid.

The total raised by you, our lovely residents (together with some private individual donations) was an astonishing £7056.45, which, with the gift aid added, will come to around £9000!!! Thank you so much!!

Our thanks also to the Shirley Guides and Pinewood Explorer Scout Groups, who helped as 'Elves' on several nights, which greatly contributed to the super amount collected.

We had such a great time with you during the collections and were very touched by the warm welcome which you gave us - it seemed as though everyone was happy to return to a bit of normality! We cannot thank you enough for all your generosity and we are delighted that we will be able to help so many people again this year, thanks to your support.

It just goes to show - together we really are stronger!
THANK YOU!!!

Christmas Collections 2020

It is with great regret that we have to inform you that this year we will be unable to hold our annual Christmas Collections around the streets of Addiscombe and Shirley. This will be the first time in 17 years that we have been unable to do them, because of the current COVID restrictions. Normally, we are able to help many local, as well as some national and international, charities and organisations with donations from the money that our lovely residents kindly give us each year.

Our JustGiving page for donations, which was set up instead, raised £340.

Thank you to all those who kindly donated at a difficult time for everyone.

Santa and his Sleigh, with flashing lights and music, came to Addiscombe and Shirley on the nights of 3-6 and 10-13 December 2018 for the annual Christmas Charity Collections.

This year we raised £ 4710.42 and we could not have done it without our very generous residents!

We are all volunteers so every penny raised goes to charities and organisations with a special emphasis on local charities.

Thank you all so much for supporting your local community.

Christmas Collections 2018

Thank You ALL so very much for the generous donations that will be very close £ 6000 (including gift aid).

Every single penny collected will support charities and the list will be published in the next few weeks.

Once again, thank you to the residents of Addiscombe and Shirley, Thank you to the Rotarians who braved all weather conditions to knock on doors and to Rotarian Chris who again organised the routes, prepared Santa and so kindly let us use his car.