20/09/2026
Rotary Christmas Toy Box Appeal 2026 in partnership with Kids in Mind Charity.
The Rotary Christmas Toy Box Appeal is a national campaign which aims to deliver individual toy boxes to every child, in every domestic abuse refuge in the UK this Christmas.
Behind the sparkle of the festive season, thousands of children across the UK and Ireland live with the hidden impact of domestic abuse and family breakdown. For them, Christmas can be a time of fear and uncertainty rather than joy.
Each box costs £30 and will deliver a box of age and gender appropriate toys worth approximately £80 to a child spending Christmas in refuge.
According to Kids in Mind, over 15,000 children flee domestic abuse and seek sanctuary in women’s refuges every year. Often, the children arrive with few, if any, possessions and have witnessed or experienced physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
2025’s Rotary Christmas Toy Box Appeal raised over £97,000 enabling the delivery of toy boxes to over 3,200 children across the country who spent Christmas in a domestic abuse refuge.
The appeal is running from the beginning of September up to and through the festive season. The closing date for donations to this year’s appeal is 20th December 2026.
To find out more and donate, visit:
www.rotarygbi.org/toybox
