Leeds United are proud to support the Mission Christmas campaign for the seventh successive year, as the club and first-team squad helps to ensure children around Leeds and Yorkshire do not go without gifts and toys this Christmas.
The campaign is designed to help the thousands of children currently living in deprivation and poverty through the support of gift and monetary donations, and this year once again the club were on hand to donate a host of presents, with the first-team squad continuing their own individual support by making personal cash donations.
Representatives from Mission Christmas visited Thorp Arch earlier this week where they met captain Ethan Ampadu and the rest of the first-team players, with each of them handing over the donated items that will hopefully help to make a big difference to children across the city this Christmas.
Deliveries made by Cash for Kids to families who need it the most at this time of the year, with the ongoing support from the Leeds United fanbase and wider football family, continues to ensure more children will have presents to open on Christmas morning in a few weeks time.
Lisa Sullivan, Charity Manager for Cash for Kids, said: “I have worked for Cash for Kids for 12 years now and this is the toughest time I have ever known. The cash and gifts aren’t coming in the quantities we have seen before and this means whilst we have helped 7, 692 local children we still have 8, 908 children that need a gift and we need to help these children by 22nd December.
"I would really like to ask anyone that can afford to get involved and donate to us, and to do it sooner rather than later, it breaks our heart to know that so many children in our local area are at risk of going without a present on Christmas Day unless we can help them, but together we can change that.
"I want to say a big heartfelt thank you to Leeds United for their continued support for Mission Christmas, their support and commitment to our charity means the world to us and the local children we support."
