Are you able to give gifts to foster children/children in care?

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and if so how do you go about it? after reading soapbox's wonderful thread it got me thinking about all those little children with no parents and in care, I would love to be able to donate a prezzie

Google your local voluntary services and ask them what Christmas gift projects are going on. Most forster carers would be able to get referred to schemes by the kids' social workers if they needed it, as would children's homes.

Another idea is contacting your local Womens Aid branch and asking how you can get gifts/handmedowns to them. Imagine arriving at a refuge with your kids with nothing but the clothes you are wearing - bad enough but then imagine it's Christmas too. I would imagine bags are quite useful to them too.

our local council have a Christmas Tree appeal every year where people donate pressies and they're given to underpriviledged kids in the the county.

You could contact your local council and ask if they're doing similar or contact social services or a HV

LOL at forster carers, very posh!

yes finding out what is going on locally is a good idea. I work with homeless families and we have the local Salvation Army and Procurator Fiscal's office organising pressies for the 80 kids we are involved with. We have given them a list of ages and gender and they are ticking them off. The local building site is collecting money for us to put together party box / hampers for all the families. It's all really appreciated. Children in foster care are often quite well provided for materially. The familes we are involved with can have very little. I agree taht contacting a refuge is a great idea too.