Giving a lifeline to individuals and families

Valleys Kids' Christmas Gift Appeal 2021

Can you help Valleys Kids give a gift this Christmas to a child in RCT?

Christmas is a magical time for many, but for families struggling to make ends meet, it can be a time of stress and challenge.  Valleys Kids aims to make Christmas easier for families by providing gifts for children.

We provide gifts to children throughout RCT with an identified need.  Referrals to our appeal come from primary schools, Banardos and many more local organisations.

Last year the local community was incredible.  Everyone pulled together and we were able to provide gifts to over 300 children.  

Help us reach even more vulnerable children this year by supporting our appeal with a financial donation or dropping a gift at one of our centres.

How to help:

Shop

You can shop straight from our online  ‘gift wish list’ 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/39K1R5J8A0KT7…

Drop

Or drop a gift off at one of our centres:

• 
  The Play Yard, Treorchy CF42 6DL – 01443 303300
  Everyday 10am-5.30pm
• 
  Soar Centre, Penygraig CF401JZ – 01443 420870
• 
  The old Library, Penygraig CF401LA
• 
  The Factory, Porth CF39 9PP – 01443 687080
• 
  Rhydyfelin Community Centre, Rhydyfelin CF37 5RW – 01443 808850

Donate

Make a financial donation through the ‘donate’ button below.

Get involved

Each year, we rely on a team of awesome volunteers to help us sort, wrap and deliver gifts to children.  If you’d like to get involved, please get in touch:

 01443420870
Nicola@valleyskids.biz

Valleys Kids' Covid Response

Valleys Kids supports over 3,000 people every week. We are doing things we have never had to do before. The demand has been overwhelming and humbling. From single parent families with 4 children who had no opportunity to leave the children to collect food, through to families with very sick children who were terrified to leave the house and risk bringing infection home with them.

Valleys Kids has been part of the community for over 40 years, but we’ve never seen anything like this.

Our buildings are beginning to reopen, staff are refocussing on trying to return to some kind of ‘normal’ having made superhuman efforts, coping with their own challenges, whilst responding  flexibly to the needs of a community in lockdown who struggled and are struggling to overcome anxiety and stress, to make ends meet and feed their families.

The legacy is high levels of anxiety, stress and depression which is affecting the mental health & wellbeing of children, young people and adults across all age groups.  Like Long Covid, the impacts on wellbeing, emotional and financial resilience will not be a quick fix in communities which were already high on the deprivation table.

We have always tried to offer what people told us they need. We are committed to continuing to help local people to help themselves overcome the obstacles they face.

Our endeavours during the period of the lockdown, reflects the high levels of need and what we were able to achieve.

Community is Kindness : Together Stronger

• Food parcels for families and kids…feeding over 1000 people each week.
• Regular support for isolated families and older people, shopping, medication, transport, a friendly,  listening ear…
• Digital Lifelines: Online support groups, digital youth arts…We need to secure further support to safeguard this provision into the future.
  Please donate if you are able.