A Christmas campaign received 1,462 donations for the elderly that were spending Christmas alone last year.

Home Instead Senior Care’s Christmas campaign, ‘Be a Santa to a Senior’, saw local organisations and charities pull out all the stops to make Christmas extra special for the elderly and families in need across the Wirral.

Local organisations across the borough hosted Home Instead Christmas trees and gift tags where members of the public took a gift tag, bought the present, and brought it back to the venue for it to be donated to a person spending Christmas alone.

Bev Favanger, Business Development Executive, at Home Instead said: “I am delighted that this year’s ‘Be A Santa to a Senior’ campaign has been such a huge success. It is a very rewarding campaign to be involved in.

“A record number of 1,462 gifts were donated and delivered to the elderly this year! I am particularly grateful to local organisations who hosted the Christmas trees and to the kind members of the public who donated gifts for named individuals.

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“It’s been really heartwarming to see communities pulling together in such challenging times.”

Those involved were Carr Farm, Meols, Tesco, Heswall, Morrison’s, West Kirby, Fleur Ashley tea room, Wallasey, Classie Dog Grooming, Willaston, Moreton Community Outreach Project, Kodi Lucas Estate Agents, Moreton, Wallasey Rugby Club, BT Centre – 999, Costa Coffee, Neston, Jones Chapman Estate Agents, Greasby and Home Instead, West Kirby office.

Bev said: “The organisations, businesses, charities, church groups and community groups pulled out all the stops to make Christmas extra special for the elderly and families in need across the Wirral and in Neston. It was really heart-warming to see communities pulling together in such challenging times.

“The public were very generous in donating gifts for our campaign, they took ‘Santa to a Senior’ to their hearts and really loved the concept. Most importantly, the recipients of the gifts were thrilled to think they were being remembered with a treat at Christmas that was given by a local person!”