Boxing up some Christmas love

This annual project is run by Eastbourne-based charity The Mustard Seed Relief Mission which appeals for shoeboxes filled with Christmas gifts to send out to under-privileged children around the world.

Members of the Interact Club set to work by promoting the Love In A Box mission within form groups and by spending a lunchtime decorating empty shoe boxes to get the campaign underway.

Forms from all year groups took on the challenge by bringing in suitable gifts as well as packing individual boxes with gifts themselves.

The form 8I led the way by showing commitment and team work by putting together 15 boxes as a class group.

Last week, St Richard’s Interact Club delivered 80 boxes in total to the charity’s base.

Angela Brennan, chaplain at St Richard’s, was proud of the effort made by pupils.

She said: “We feel that it is such an important charity to support.

“Mustard Seed make the lives of the children in places such as orphanages in the Ukraine that little bit brighter by the gifts that they receive as well as the knowledge that children whom they have never met, care enough to send them a Love In A Box.

“I’d like to thank the Interact Club for their enthusiasm and commitment to this charity as well as staff, pupils and parents for their support and generosity in these difficult times,” she added.