This year a group of staff are supporting the Christmas Complete 2017 project, run by Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship (S.C.R.A.T.C.H.), by making it accessible and convenient for staff and students to drop off their donations at the University.
The Christmas Complete project operates each year and is a way of ensuring that local children and young people can all enjoy Christmas.
This project could not help all the families that are referred to them without the very generous donations from individuals, local schools, churches and businesses.
Donations of toys and gifts suitable for babies, children and young people up to the age of 17 years are needed by Friday 8 December 2017.
The sorts of things the project needs are:
- Age relevant toys
- Games and puzzles
- Books
- Sweets
- Colouring pencils, felt tip pens, colouring books, art and crafts etc.
- Toiletries and other items suitable for teenagers (there is always a shortage of items for teenagers)
Please do not wrap the gifts as this will be done later.
Items can be dropped off at any of the following locations:
- Avenue Campus, Building 65, Reception, Ext. 28646, email: [email protected]
- Boldrewood Campus, Building 176, Room 3043, Sue Smith, Ext. 22316, email: [email protected]
- Chilworth, NETSCC, Alpha House, Enterprise Road, Maxwell Kusi-Obodum, Ext 25548, email: [email protected]
- Guildhall Square, 1GS, Human Resources, Level 3, Julie Balcombe, Ext. 29428, email: [email protected]
- Highfield Campus, Building 37, International Office, Level 3, Room 3107, Marika Stone, Ext 28034, email: [email protected], Gemma Barnes Ext 21723 or Carlene Cornick Ext 26808
- Highfield Campus, Building 26, People and Strategy, Human Resources, Level 1, Room 2001, Geraldine Witt, Ext. 24054, email: [email protected]
- Highfield Campus, Building 44, Room 4057 and the FOS office (Level 2), Ext. 25083, email: [email protected], or Allyson Marchi, Ext. 29674, email: [email protected]
- Highfield Campus, Building 67, Health Sciences, Room 4015, Claire Reidy, Ext. 27628, email: [email protected]
- SGH, D Level, CRF, Deborah Knight, email: [email protected]
- SGH, South Academic Block, Level A, MP11, Amy Thomas, Ext/ 71-391, email [email protected]
The project is dependent on volunteers in order to staff collection points. If there is no collection point near you and you would like to help create one, please contact Marika Stone by emailing: [email protected],
If you are interested in volunteering with Christmas Complete this year, you can help with sorting and packing between 10 – 16 December 2017 at the premises in Central Baptist Church, Devonshire Road, Polygon, Southampton, SO15 2Y. Please contact Annette at S.C.R.A.T.C.H. by emailing: [email protected]
