Resources

If you’ve signed up for this year’s Love Christmas campaign, this page has everything you need — suggested timeline, planning guide, materials, branding, and more!

Love Christmas timeline

Plan

Decide who you can bless with a Bags of Kindness; foodbank recipients, attendees of your outreach ministries, local charities, schools, or care homes etc.

Think about what you’d like to put in your bags and where it will come from.
Involve your church in the planning and include your Love Christmas activities in your church’s calendar.

Make a date in your church’s calendar for a packing day.

Reach out to local supermarkets to see how they can help, can they donate free products or offer you discounts on bulk items.

Get in touch with other local churches and partners such as schools or businesses and encourage them to join in! Ask if they can help you by providing some volunteers, donating items or letting you use their space.
Once you know what you’ll include in your bags of Kindness, start to think about how your church is able to contribute through donations or giving

Share plans with your church and invite them to sign up to donate items, or join the packing day.

If you’d like support with your planning or some inspiration get in touch – lovechristmas@loveyourneighbour.uk

August

September

Get ready

Download all the materials you’ll need from the resource area below.
Join our Love Christmas webinars starting on the 8th of September. This is a space for learning, sharing and encouragement across the Love Christmas community, covering a range of topics from logistics to storytelling. You can also watch back the sessions that you missed using the links below.

Mon 8 Sep | 12-12.45pm

Logistics, Procurement & Budgets

Mon 29 Sep | 12-12.45pm

Branding, Bags of Kindness, Content etc.

Mon 20 Oct | 12-12.45pm

Volunteers & Events

Mon 10 Nov | 12-12.45pm

Storytelling & Social Media

October

November

December

January

Encourage & Inspire

Share the Love Christmas film in your churches to inspire volunteers and keep your church informed. It can also be shared with local businesses and partners to encourage their participation.
Start building your team of volunteers. Organising packing/delivery days which are accessible to your congregation and allow people to get involved. Think about hosting a youth night or a parent of little one's event so your whole community can join in.

Pack and deliver

This is the fun part! Enjoy hosting your packing events and distributing your Bags of Kindness!

Share

Share your stories with us! We’d love to hear how this year’s campaign has made a difference in your communities. Don’t forget to include the numbers—this helps us highlight the incredible wave of kindness the church is spreading across the nation!

Celebrate

Come and celebrate with us! Join the celebration call as we come together to feedback about all the wonderful ways in which people have been touched by kindness this year and the impact it’s had!

Resources & More

Here you’ll find templates for Love Christmas cards, stickers, posters, bags, social media graphics and more. We’d be so grateful if you could read the brand guidelines before accessing the templates!

Posters

Slides

Click through to our Tips and tricks page for the best advice on all things Love Christmas!

Tips and tricks

FAQs

By joining hundreds of churches across the UK in delivering Bags of Kindness to those in our communities who are isolated or facing hardship this Christmas, we can share a powerful, united message of hope and kindness — because we’re stronger together!
Churches are our main point of contact for Love Christmas. However, if you’re an individual, business, school, charity or other organisation who’d like to join in, we encourage you to reach out to a local church in your community to see if they are part of Love Christmas - there are so many ways you can participate through volunteering, donating items, or hosting a packing event.
ORGANISE Love Christmas activities to pack and deliver Bags of Kindness.
MOBILISE volunteers from your congregation and community.
GROW your network by partnering with other churches, businesses, schools and more.
RAISE awareness on social media and the press by sharing your Love Christmas activities.
A Bag of Kindness is a bag or box of gifts designed to share kindness with members of our community who are experiencing hardship or isolation at Christmas.
What goes in your Bag of Kindness depends on the recipient. We strongly recommend that you don’t include alcohol, and that you are mindful of cultural preferences. Otherwise, it’s largely up to you - but you might want to include edible treats, toys, small gifts and more. See our suggested packing list for other ideas.
Partner organisations might include schools, charities, businesses, and more. Love Christmas provides an amazing opportunity to develop or strengthen these relationships and can act as a springboard for longer-term partnership. 
Social media – we’d love you to join us in sharing a united message of kindness this Christmas! All you need to do is download the social media templates and get going! Please tag us so that the wonderful ways your church is getting involved gets shared more widely and use the hashtag #LoveChristmasLYN
Local Press – why not contact your local press and tell them what you’re up to? People love to hear good news stories at Christmas! You could invite them along to your packing day or event.
Email us – we’d love to hear all the ways you’re getting your church and local partners involved and any feedback from those who’ve been on the receiving end too! Email us: lovechristmas@loveyourneighbour.uk
By sharing your impact numbers, we can celebrate the incredible ways churches across the UK are coming together to bring hope and joy to those in need this Christmas. Every Bag of Kindness distributed is a testament to the generosity and compassion of each church, and together, we are creating a powerful wave of love that reaches across our communities.