Sleigh2Give 11 topped 2024’s record breaking 10th anniversary Christmas appeal by raising the most number of toys and gifts ever, with 2025 achieving a new record amount thanks to the incredible generosity, amazing kind hearts and support of our community far and wide!
And here is all the smiles of very special Christmas gift giving kindness delivered to the faces of poorly children at our children’s hospital.
12 organisations benefiting with Sleigh2Give 2025 providing Christmas cheer, joy, and smiles to so many this Christmas from children, siblings families in hospitals and hospices to the less fortunate, vulnerable and those most in need including young carers and adults with brain injuries. An estimated 8,000-gifts was achieved so another great big thank you to Oxfordshire and even further beyond
And, just look at all these happy faces and the cheer and joy brought to patients, families and staff within Oxford Children’s Hospital, Sobell House, the John Radcliffe Neonatal Care Unit and Viking House on our final deliveries of the #Sleigh2Give campaign this December – just heartwarming, inspiring and rewarding all in one!
Thank you to everyone who made 2025 another Sleigh2Give success – from businesses and schools to gyms, shops, supermarkets, cafes and dance schools and more including all those individuals who donated and all the financial donations to purchase gifts and of course to all of our very own wonderful hard-working volunteers, elves, sponsors and drivers – none of these happy smiley faces, and the joy of a toy and a gift gifted to so many, would of otherwise been possible!
We have given the gift of giving to
the Oxford Children’s Hospital including toys which will be shared with patients in the Horton and Nuffield children’s wards, children’s critical care areas, children’s outpatients and with siblings as well as Sobell House, siblings in the neonatal care unit of the John Radcliffe through SNAP (Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents), Viking House in Oxford, Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire and Home-Start Oxford, Oxford Head Injury Service, Be Free Young Carers, Wigod Way Wallingford Family Centre, Summerfield House in Abingdon, First Steps Baby Bank and Ddcot Foodbank as well as some emergency requests for families in crisis.
Whilst all of the Play2Give team look forward to a well earnt festive break after a hugely packed and busy year full of fabulous and fantastic fundraising events, cracking appeals and successes, we also look forward to Sleigh2Give 2026 and to our sixth Easter Egg Appeal which will launch in late January.
Thank you for being first-class supporters