Love Christmas FAQs
Bags of Kindness
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A bag of kindness is a gift that can be given to someone who in need this Christmas. With the cost of living crisis, Love Christmas aims to bless those who may not otherwise receive a gift at Christmas.
Beneficiaries
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A beneficiary is anyone who receives a Bag of Kindness.
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Bags of Kindness can be given to anyone in need. This could be someone your church is already supporting, school children in a deprived area, refugees and asylum seekers living in hotels, low-income households, local neighbourhoods, or simply anyone who you know may benefit from an act of kindness this Christmas.
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You may want to signpost your beneficiaries to different ways of receiving further support. For example, if you church runs a food bank programme, you can include a leaflet about that in your Bags of Kindness. Or if you run English lessons for refugees and asylum seekers, you could signpost your beneficiaries to these methods of support.
Volunteers
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We have a number of corporate partners who would like to volunteer their time to help out with Love Christmas. They could support you in your packing or delivery days. If you’d be interested in receiving corporate volunteers, please indicate this on the sign-up form.
Partnerships
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We encourage you to think about partnering with other churches in your area from all Christian denominations and networks, to invite into your Love Christmas activities. This could mean a variety of different things, including the following:
GIVE: You could partner with another church financially by giving to their campaign or by them giving to yours.
TIME: You could share your time with another church. They could volunteer at your packing day or delivery day.
RESOURCE: Other churches could also join in by donating resources such as some of the contents for your Bags of Kindness, space to pack or hold Love Christmas events, vehicles to deliver Bags of Kindness, etc.
If you are partnering with a church in any of the above ways or by another means, this qualifies as a church partnership.
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Partner organisations might include schools, prisons, charities, businesses, and more, and can mean a variety of different things including the following:
GIVE You can partner with another organisation financially by having them donate to your campaign. For example, a business could make a donation to your Love Christmas activities.
TIME You can also have an organisation volunteer their time. For example, a school could volunteer at your packing day or delivery day.
RESOURCE The recipients of your Bags of Kindness qualify as a partnership as well. For example, if you are giving your Bags of Kindness to a prison, this qualifies as a partnership. Or, another example, is that a school could donate children’s books to put in your Bags of Kindness.
If you are partnering with an organisation in any of the above ways or by another means, this qualifies as a partnership with an organisation.
Impact + finance reporting
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We collect impact numbers so that we can measure how, collectively across the UK, churches are working together to bless vulnerable people in our communities over the Christmas period.
Together, we can celebrate the total number of Bags of Kindness distributed across the UK as well as the number of people reached, volunteers mobilised, and church and other partnerships forged, which each individual church has played their part in contributing to.
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We will be inviting you to complete a short impact form once you have completed your Love Christmas activity. Our goal is to ask easily qualifiable question in order to share the results with you all in January.
At a high-level, we will ask you to report for each event (or collectively as you’d like):
How many Bags of Kindness you distributed
How many people received a Bag of Kindness
How many volunteers supported your activities
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