The Christmas Smile Project

25/12/2025

Today, hundreds of your neighbours, young and old, will be unwrapping kindly donated, lovingly chosen and beautifully wrapped gifts.

Thank you to everyone in our incredible community who helped make the magic happen and ensured Santa found everyone who needed a smile today 🎅🏼🎁❤️

24/12/2025

✨The magic of Christmas Smile comes from the volunteers who make it happen ✨

Meet Kate, our Founder and Director🎬

Kate is the visionary behind Christmas Smile. She ensures the big picture comes together - planning the timeline, securing premises, managing finances, and keeping all the essential resources in place.
After facing recent illness, Kate has taken a step back from day-to-day operations, entrusting our amazing Leads to keep things running smoothly. Her dedication and leadership continue to inspire everything we do.

🎄Favourite Christmas tradition:
“Wearing our matching family PJs on Christmas Eve and watching classic Christmas films 🎄🍿🥰”

🎅🏼Why I love Christmas Smile:
"Every year I get to witness pure kindness in action.
I started volunteering after a painful experience with someone unkind, hoping to restore my faith in humanity. And every single volunteer who walks through our doors does exactly that. Whether they stay for an hour or for years, they give their time freely to help people they’ll never meet.
Former recipients return to give back. Donations often come from those who have so little themselves. Some spend all year knitting or collecting gifts. It melts my heart.
Yes, there will always be hurtful people in the world but there are far more kind ones. Thanks to Christmas Smile and our incredible volunteers, my faith in humanity is renewed every single year.”

19/12/2025

A reminder that tomorrow starting at 11am is the Halfway House on the Wrekin Christmas event if you’d like some pre-festivity exercise to walk up they’d love to see you and Santa will be giving out special Christmas Smile gifts 🎁🎁🎁

✨ Christmas at Halfway House – 20th December ✨

The Halfway House on the Wrekin is hosting a festive Christmas celebration on 20th December, and everyone is invited! 🎄

Expect Leo Loco’s Circus, beautiful nativity installation, joyful carol singing, and a special visit from Santa, who’ll be handing out some gifts he collected from us. 🎅🎁

If you’re able to pop up, they’d love to see you there. It will be a magical day! ✨

13/12/2025

We were so touched to receive these beautiful handmade gifts and clothes, lovingly donated by Alan’s wife (Alan and his daughter are pictured here showcasing them 👏). The time, care and kindness behind every piece truly means so much and will help bring smiles to families this Christmas 💙✨

13/12/2025

✨The magic of Christmas Smile comes from the volunteers who make it happen✨

Meet Angela, our Referrals Lead 💌

Angela is the calm, organised heart of our referrals process, making sure every request for gifts is handled with care and respect. She manages all incoming referrals from agencies, carefully checking that we have all the information needed and that everything is fully anonymised to protect families’ privacy.

Once each referral is approved, Angela formats and prepares the details into clear, easy-to-use sheets for our wrapping teams to work from. Thanks to her attention to detail and dedication behind the scenes, our volunteers can focus on creating thoughtful, personalised gifts for every child and family we support.

Behind every well-wrapped present is Angela, quietly making sure everything is just right.

🎄Favourite Christmas tradition:
“Having all my family together at Christmas.”

🎅🏼Why I love Christmas Smile:
“Because of the amazing sense of sharing and giving. I feel grateful to be in a position to help.”

12/12/2025

🎄 A Lovely Visit Today 🎄

It was lovely to see Shaun Davies MP for Telford today. He popped in with these wonderful gifts that were collected at his Christmas party, where guests were invited to bring along a donation for us.

A big thank you to Shaun and everyone who contributed – your kindness means so much. 💛

12/12/2025

🌟 A Very Special Thank You 🌟

We’d like to say a specially big thank you to wonderful Elaine Mills (shown in the first photo with her daughter Julie).

Elaine knits all year round for local charities and has brought in these incredible handmade donations for us to give out to our lucky children and seniors. ❤️🧶

Your kindness and hard work makes such a difference Elaine. Thank you so much. 🌟

12/12/2025

✨ Christmas at Halfway House – 20th December ✨

The Halfway House on the Wrekin is hosting a festive Christmas celebration on 20th December, and everyone is invited! 🎄

Expect Leo Loco’s Circus, beautiful nativity installation, joyful carol singing, and a special visit from Santa, who’ll be handing out some gifts he collected from us. 🎅🎁

If you’re able to pop up, they’d love to see you there. It will be a magical day! ✨

11/12/2025

Thank you to Debbie and everyone at Tranquillo Dental Studio for your wonderful donations. The Santa sacks are nearly ready….

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to the The Christmas Smile Project. All gifts have now been delivered, ready to be wrapped 🎅🎁🎄🦷🌿

10/12/2025

Big thanks to Fujitsu and Telford & Wrekin Council for joining us today! Your support means a lot🎅🏼✨❤️

09/12/2025

Massive thank you to the Ministry of Housing and YMCA Wellington for your support yesterday afternoon. You guys were great!❤️🎁✨

09/12/2025

Thank you to all the volunteers who joined us on Sunday!🎅🏼❤️

We hosted a public session in the morning and welcomed the Gurdwara in the afternoon✨

Our volunteers picked gifts with such care. They also did some sorting, tidying, stamping and adding twine to labels. To top it all off, one of the ladies from the Gurdwara surprised us with delicious Indian tea and samosas. Thank you!🎁🫶🏼