Generous students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) have donated hundreds of Christmas presents for disadvantaged children.
Students and staff from both DMU and De Montfort Students' Union (DSU) gave toys and their time to wrap gifts for Toys on the Table, a charitable organisation which gives toys to almost 4,000 children around Leicestershire who otherwise wouldn't receive anything on Christmas day.
After weeks of toy donations and fundraising, over 30 student and staff volunteers came together at the Big Wrap - organised by DSU Volunteering - to wrap more than 300 hundred presents.
Caylee Gutsell, third year Arts and Festival Management student and Community Events Frontrunner at DSU, said: "Toys on the Table is an amazing initiative.
"I knew about it before I started working here - in fact it was one of the main things that drew me to the job.
"I think that Christmas should be a time of giving and people spend thousands of pounds on presents when there are some children who won't get anything. Just one toy for them could make their whole Christmas.
"The turnout of volunteers for the Big Wrap has been the best it has ever been, and the students and staff from both DSU and the university have been amazing."
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Students and staff alike were on hand to help wrap the gifts; including Sarah Newton, a first year Educations Studies student. She said: "I heard about Toys on the Table and thought that it was a great idea.
"I even stood up at the end of one of my lectures to tell everyone else about it to try and get as many people involved as possible!"
Terry Watts, President of Toys on the Table, said: "We've come to DSU six or seven years now and this year is as good as - if not better than - any year we've been before."
"I have been a part of Toys on the Table since the rebirth in the early 2000s and there's a really good selection of toys and gifts here so we have done really well.
"All of the volunteers are really pleased and satisfied to know that we have made a real difference."
Posted on Thursday 24 December 2015