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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
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Steven Brown

Generous Edinburgh schoolchildren collect Christmas gifts for the less fortunate

Kind-hearted kids at a capital school have collected toys for less fortunate youngsters this Christmas.

Radio Forth's Mission Christmas is set up so Santa is able to reach children living in poverty and people are still being encouraged to take part this year.

This year, Bruntsfield Primary School have collected and donated an amazing 175 toys which will go to less fortunate children in Edinburgh and the Lothians this Christmas.

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The Headteacher of Bruntsfield Primary School, Stephen Gilhooley said: “We’ve done lots of little things in our community, we’ve just launched an email address to help people who are finding it difficult or vulnerable families that are impacted with poverty or finding it difficult with the current economic conditions at the moment.”

“We were looking for something that would impact on our community as well as the community of Edinburgh, one of our parents came up to us and approached us and told us about Radio Forth's Mission Christmas.”

“We thought it was a nice, easy thing to do but also something that was close to our hearts.”

The Headteacher of Bruntsfield Primary School gave credit to the local Tesco on Holy Corner in Edinburgh for help in the process of collection the toys.

Every year, Radio Forth launch their Christmas appeal to give donated gifts to children over the Christmas season. You can find out how to get involved and donate Christmas presents in time for Christmas here.

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