The Ferry Elves

27/12/2025

📣 Message from our ‘Chief Elf’ 📣

Ferry Elves would like to thank everyone who supported us this year. Thanks to our wonderful community, we supported 112 local youngsters aged newborn to 16 years old. This is truly a community endeavour 🎁 🎄

❤️ Whether you (individuals or groups) donated time, cash, JustGiving, gifts, food, turkeys, handmade biscuits, food or preloved clothes/ toys, it was very much appreciated. We did end up with enough clothes to share with Kids Love clothes and the baby bank.

💙Tesco South Queensferry In The Community has been pivotal in this work; allowing us a weekend to tell folk about what we do, then 4 weeks with our box for collections in a prominent place - then added a trolley for toys!🧸

🏠 The local builders and housing associations; Lovell, Cala and Sigma have given us significant donations as has Register house. Along with the rowing club, Lovell and Cala provided specific gifts for some children 🎁

🧱 📦 Rosebery hall provides us with storage and an elf workshop in the community centre which is essential.

🎅🏼 Buzzworks once again provided breakfasts with Santa for 5 families which were a great hit as was the extra food added to our collection.

When we were allocating the food packs there was a shortage of tinned meat and veg so our friends in the Lodge St Margaret, South Queensferry stepped forward to resolve that 🍗 🌽 🥕 🥔

🤗 We hope we haven’t missed anyone out and we’ve tried to tag where we could - please share!

❤️ THANK YOU!! And we wish you a very happy and healthy 2026! ❤️

12/12/2025

🚗 We’ve had a busy day at Ferry Elf HQ collecting, sorting and delivering food packages to local families.

🤗 Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us with a contribution and to all our volunteers who give up their time to make this happen 👏🏼

Here’s some pictures of Elf HQ this morning, plus the donations from QHS and Echline Primary school ❤️

10/12/2025

🍽️ 🍪 🍫 A wee reminder that our food collection box will be picked up from Tesco tomorrow evening by the Chief Elf. If anyone would still like to pop a contribution in, please do it before then.

🚗 We’ll be out and about delivering the food parcels this coming weekend.

✨ Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us this year! ✨

06/12/2025

The Ferry Elves have had a busy couple of days sorting and delivering Christmas gifts to over 100 local children 🎁

We have enough gifts left to cover any further referrals that come in, so if you’d like to buy a gift for someone then please consider helping Cash for Kids 🤗

There is a donation point in Tesco South Queensferry now that our gift trolley has gone and we know they’re struggling this year ❤️‍🩹

Our food box will remain in Tesco till 11th December - we’ll be sorting and distributing food next weekend 🦃 🍽️

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped us so far this year - we really appreciate the trust and support from our wonderful community ❤️

05/12/2025

Busy busy at Elf HQ this morning! 🙌🏼

04/12/2025

🎄 We are ready and raring to go! 🚗 💨

🎁 Starting tomorrow and over this weekend, Ferry Elves will be busy at Elf HQ sorting and then distributing gifts out to local families.

🦃 🍽️ Our donations box will stay in Tesco till 11th December for food only - this will be collected, sorted and then distributed next weekend.

🤗 Thanks so much to everyone who has been in touch with us and offered help or popped a gift in our donation box. We really appreciate all the support.

💸 Thanks to everyone’s AMAZING generosity, we have also hit the fundraising target on our Just Giving page. This is amazing and so so appreciated! 🫶🏼

🤍 If you need some help this Christmas then please get in touch (in confidence) via our page or email [email protected]

02/12/2025

📣 Last call for gifts 📣

We’ll be collecting the last of any gifts donated in Tesco SQF this Thursday, 4th December.

The Ferry Elves will be busy at Elf HQ (Queensferry Community Centre) this weekend sorting through all the gift donations and then delivering these to local families 🚗 🎁

🤗 Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out and offered help this year. We really appreciate all your help, and couldn’t do this without you! 🤍

🎄 It’s not too late to contact us if you’d like some help this year - please message us in confidence or email [email protected]

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Iʼm raising money to support Ferry elves who help families in the Queensferry over the winter period.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

28/11/2025

📣 Quick announcement 📣

From now until tomorrow evening, our collection box (pictured below) will be ‘closed’ and sitting on its side as the food bank are in Tescos this weekend collecting donations.

26/11/2025

✨ A couple of weeks ago the Ferry Elves were invited, along with other community organisations, to Lodge St Margaret to collect a donation towards our Christmas collection for this year. Thank you to everyone at the lodge for a lovely evening and for supporting us again in 2025 🤍 💸

26/11/2025

📣 Just a wee reminder….. 📣

🍽️ That our donations box in Tescos is still behind the till and we’ll be accepting any food donations until 11th December.

🎁 For anyone who’d like to contribute a gift, we’ll be collecting the last of these 4th December ready to distribute the weekend of 5th & 6th.

🌟 Thanks so much to Tescos and their wonderful staff for supporting us again this year

🤍If you or someone you know needs some help this Christmas, then please get in touch confidentially at [email protected]

12/11/2025

📣 Reminder 📣

🎁 Our donations box will be behind the tills at Tesco until the end of November for anyone who’d like to add their contribution. A fresh supply of lists were popped on the table last night, but sharing again here for anyone who might want to see it 🎁

Thanks so much again to everyone who has already contributed and supported us this year. We are very grateful 🎅🏼 🎄 ✨ 🦌

🤍 If you or anyone you know might need some help this year then please get in touch with us confidentially. Our email address is [email protected] 🤍

02/11/2025

🤗 Thank you!! 🤗

So much to everyone who has popped a donation into our box, came over for a chat, or offered help this weekend. Our lovely community is always supportive of our wee group and we really appreciate it 🎁

Big thanks to all the staff at Tesco who are always so welcoming and helpful 🙌🏼

Out donations box will stay behind the tills until the end of the month, so plenty time for anyone who’d still like to put something in 🎁

If you or someone you know might need some help this year, then please reach out to us in confidence either on Facebook or our email address [email protected] 💻