Supporting local charities with this year’s Christmas Wish Tree

You are invited to either donate physical gifts or to make a donation online, providing much-needed support to three local charities. Each charity has provided a wish list of items that would benefit their work - details of these items will be written on the gift tags on our Christmas Wish Tree. 

This year’s charities were chosen by representatives from Durham Students’ Union: 

• DASH - an independent charity that provides accommodation with support to people who are homeless or about to become homeless in County Durham. 
• Feeding Families – a charity based in North East England that offers support, hope and security to those experiencing food poverty. 
• RSACC - offering free, confidential and specialist support to sexual violence survivors in Darlington and County Durham. 

 
How it works 

Donating a physical gift: 

• From Monday 25 November, you can pick up one or more gift tags from our Christmas Wish Tree in Bill Bryson Library (opposite the Help and Information Desk) 
• Buy and wrap the gift(s) written on the tags, and attach the tag to your gift(s) 
• Place your wrapped and tagged gift(s) back under the Christmas Wish Tree by Friday 13 December 2024. 

Donating online: 

• Visit the donation pages for our chosen charities this year (see below) - you can choose to support as many of the charities as you like:
   
  • Donate to DASH  
  • Donate to Feeding Families  
  • Donate to RSACC  
    
    
• Donate an amount of your choice, which will help the charity to provide items from their wish list 
• Donations should be made by Friday 13 December 2024.