More visits today.

IMPORTANT: Don’t throw away your old video cases. If you have progressed in this technical world to DVD’s, watching films on your iPad, or even streaming films, you may have a cupboard full of videos you no longer want. Well here is a way to put them into good use…… OK the film can go, but the case, once stripped of the paper film insert can be transformed into a pencil case, a craft set or a puzzle or game. Slip a picture in the sleeve, so don’t throw those Christmas cards away either, and bingo, perfect gift and lasting to put into a shoebox. Great for a boy or girl. Look at what people have made.

There are craft sets, puzzles and they amazingly (with the help of our team)  pencil cases!!! Wonderful.

But we get through a few pencil sharpeners though!!!










We had a group of very helpful and enthusiastic children from Mychett Primary School who came personally to deliver their boxes. What a brilliant job they did too. Thank you Amy for doing the counting. Afterwards they helped to check shoeboxes that had come in earlier. Mychett's  pupils knew exactly what should and should not go in the shoeboxes, they quoted me the G.I.F.T.S. before I could even ask them.

So many boxes there was a chain of pupils

Here they are ensuring boxes are "Fair boxes", correctly labelled and placed in the packing area.

Well done everyone.

Today, Thursday, we had a group of people from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). It was their Orange Day where they help and work with a charity. We are very happy and extremely fortunate that they have chosen us, Operation Christmas Child.

That’s the thing with shoeboxes - they are very contagious and, once bitten, we hope you will be back again.

GSK also donate some of the most important items… toothbrushes and toothpaste. We are indebted to them. "Thank you so much from OCC and every child who receives a box filled with love".