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Our Tweets for Toys campaign has now drawn to a conclusion. We’re delighted to have exceeded our target and have now donated 227 toys to children spending Christmas in refuges throughout the Midlands area. In total the campaign had nearly a 1000 responses! We’re so proud to have raised awareness of this incredibly worthwhile charity [...]

With Christmas Day fast approaching we’re now coming to the end of our Tweets for Toys campaign. We’ve been asking you to send festive messages using the #tweetsfortoys hash tag to help us donate a present to each and every child in refuges in the Midlands / Warwickshire area. There are 170 children that each [...]

Thanks to the wonderful efforts of our friends and followers we’ve passed the 100 mark in our Tweets for Toys campaign, to donate toys to children in refuges in the Midlands/Warwickshire area. It’s a great achievement, but we’ve still got a way to go; we’re trying to get over 170 so that every child in [...]

This post is not meant to make you feel guilty.

It’s about helping to put a smile-on-a-child less fortunate than most of the kids you and I know.

If you’ve been following our Tweets for Toys live feed you’ll have noticed an ever-growing pile of bags and boxes underneath the Christmas tree…but now they’ve disappeared!

There have been flurries of present-buying thanks to the many donations received since the launch of our Tweets for Toys Christmas campaign. The wrapping room, below, now looks like an elf workshop, with Freestyle’s very own Santa’s little helpers getting all those presents boxed up and ready to go to the kids in refuges all [...]

This year at Freestyle we’ve decided to create Tweets for Toys, which will help give a happy Christmas to children in refuges across the Midlands/ Warwickshire. Instead of our usual £10 Secret Santa, we’re donating the money to Tweets for Toys. Each donation goes towards buying toys and presents for children being helped by the [...]

In our previous blog post we mentioned that the Freestyle Elves had been busy putting up our Christmas tree. We thought this was too good an opportunity to miss doing a stop motion video of the process

The Freestyle elves have been busy putting up our Christmas tree and preparing for a very special new project: Tweets for Toys. Over the next few days and weeks we’ll be telling you all about how Tweets for Toys will bring a smile to the face of some children in our area. Take a look [...]

We’ve been busy buying bears and building boxes and piling them up in what we’re calling our ‘wrapping room’. The reason for alliterative departure from digital will become clear very soon…