{"id":660235,"date":"2025-12-29T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:27:14","slug":"seasonal-present-project-success-in-armley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660235\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal present project success in Armley\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Andy Dalton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volunteers from a West Leeds charity are taking a well-earned rest after their efforts in the run up to Christmas Day to collect, sort and pack presents for struggling families and their children.<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts meant that more than 100 children\u00a0from families under pressure received a surprise present on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<p>In the first three weeks of December volunteers and staff at Leeds City Mission in Armley sourced and packed donated presents at their premises in Mistress Lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Generous donations of presents came from kind-hearted businesses, individuals, churches and other organisations.\u00a0They rallied by donating a comprehensive range of presents for children across a wide age range.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-01-02-at-08.50.57-900x594.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168974\"  \/>Leeds City Mission in Mistress Lane, Armley.  Photo: Andy Dalton<\/p>\n<p>Based at the\u00a0Compassion Centre at its\u00a0Mission Room\u00a0premises this City Mission seasonal project concluded a busy year of initiatives and projects.\u00a0These have brought much needed help to people out of work, homeless and those on low incomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reka Hermann, who originates from Hungary, was one of a volunteer team who helped with the project.\u00a0The team were able to sort, categorise and organise the donated presents which other volunteers delivered to needy families before Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the City Mission thanked everyone who had brought this Christmas Present project to such a successful conclusion.\u00a0The number of presents received increased by 12% compared to last year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said that this was a great encouragement given the huge budget pressures both businesses and individuals have experienced in 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren from poor families were able to wake up on Christmas morning\u00a0\u00a0with a present suitable for their age and interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds City Mission\u00a0is a multi-church Christian agency working with marginalised people and seeks to meet the physical, social and spiritual needs of\u00a0Leeds\u00a0residents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Gift Project is just one of the social initiatives organised by the City Mission in its vital and ongoing work in West Leeds<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-19.08.56-645x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164819\"  \/>www.bramleybaths.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Andy Dalton Volunteers from a West Leeds charity are taking a well-earned rest after their efforts in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-660235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115802855578433098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}