The Christmas spirit is alive in Ballarat with a local business continuing its annual toys donation to brighten the lives of disadvantaged children.
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Selkirk Bricks and Pavers filled a dozen boxes with toys for 3BA’s Christmas appeal on Friday last week.
Selkirk Brick executive assistant Karen Osborne said it was important children in need received a gift for Christmas.
“It’s really about making sure every disadvantaged child receives a gift or as many as what we could help with anyway,” she said.
Ms Osborne said although Selkirk staff miss out on seeing the children’s reactions, they hear stories of their impact.
“A little boy and his father were living in a car and he thought Santa wouldn’t visit him in a car so (one charity partner) sort of made it happen that he got a Christmas gift,” she said.
For more than 10 years the organisation has continued the tradition alongside gifting corporate clients, but in the past few years switched to solely donating to children so they could give more.
