Those less fortunate..

[adultcat]

My teenage daughter says there's nothing she really wants for Christmas enter shocked face
So, we'd like to give something to those less fortunate with some of the money she'd have spent on her. I don't know what though!
Somewhere she can actually go and realise how lucky she is... Any suggestions??
I don't know if we can go along to food banks or charities?

TIA!

Our foodbank accepts help from younger people with putting together the boxes. They also accept help with sorting the Christmas gift boxes and packing them to go to Romania and Bulgaria. That's quite fun as well as rewarding. We have been with our Scouts to help out and they all seemed to enjoy it.

I work for a charity in a city that helps homeless. We're working Xmas day...

Depending on her age some might be like us and happy to have her and you tag along on an evening to help serve (you can do this before Xmas) fairly sure if a teen and mum said can they come along and help out one night we'd be happy to have the help and she could then make a donation to that charity having seen where her money will go and some faces it will be helping??

We are doing sock hampers for the homeless

You fill a sock or pair of socks with stuff like toothbrush, paste, sweets, comb etc

www.met.police.uk/christmastree

The Met Police do a collection of gifts each year for children and young people.

Thank you for all these ideas. We've looked in to the local food bank and also the homeless charities near us.

Thank you for the lovely comments too, DD can be a mare sometimes but actually, she's not that bad ;)