Secret Santa are a Community Interest Company (CIC) Reg No.10858839

Thank you for stopping by and spending a few minutes discovering what we do for our most disadvantaged children. We're called “Secret Santa” because it's not about us - it's about the children.

We've had a lot of success across the last 5 years and have delivered successfully every year, even through COVID, where we thought we would fail, we received tremendous support from our local community and Xmas 2021 was fantastic !

We have a shop on King William Street, on the edge of Blackburn Mall, adjacent to the glass clock tower (pictured above). This is WHOLLY due to the kindness and support of the team that own and manage Blackburn Mall who provide us with the shop rent-free.

Secret Santa was born in August of 2017 by Phil and Karen Boulding, working from their home in Lower Darwen with an original goal of delivering 200 sacks to Childrens Services for them, to then deliver our red Santa Sacks to the MOST disadvantaged children in the area.

Later that year, due to demand the goal grew to 800, the following year was 905 and sadly the demand has since grown to more than 1,000. The good news is that for each of the last 4 years we have delivered successfully on our goal - despite the impact of COVID.

As our 6th Christmas approaches - we are launching our Xmas 2021 appeal. where again we will be providing a sack of 7 x presents to 1,000 local disadvantaged children - to open on Christmas day morning.

Our “Xmas 2022 Appeal”

Ideally, we need to collect cash donations from people like yourself that will allow us to purchase a quantity of age/gender specific gifts that we will make up into "Santa sacks" containing 7 different presents (more below) that will be delivered to the parents of these children. Cash donations allow us to fill specific gaps between what toys are donated, and the toys that we need.

Our hope is to bring a smile and genuine cheer into the lives of those less fortunate children in Blackburn and Darwen on Christmas morning when they open their totally unexpected "Santa Sack". (The parents will have wrapped these presents and will give them as if they had bought the gifts, giving themselves some self-esteem and most importantly the obvious message to the child that they ARE loved, and they ARE normal and do NOT have to go without.

Because without what we do - These children would REALLY get next to nothing at all. They are in the bullseye of who our local Childrens services look after.

We intend providing 7 presents in each sack of gifts (Age/Gender appropriate):

A selection box - All children LOVE chocolate
Stocking filler - To help build the excitement
Reading Book(s) - To help them read, learn or even “escape”
Skipping rope, Football or Frisbee - Get them mobile
Board game/Puzzle - To play together as a family unit
Main present - Just for themselves
A teddy - For those quiet, comforting times

Collectively these gifts will help the child play, read, learn, engage with his/her family/friends playing games and really enjoy their own very special Christmas experience.

Each "Santa's sack" costs us approximately £25. So, for just £25 we can REALLY help a needy child have an amazing Christmas.

Absolutely any amount you could help us with is a massive contribution to what we hope to achieve and this year we are aiming to help 1,000 local children from Blackburn and Darwen.

And if you're a business and wanted as a company to donate toys - simply collect your toys, call us and we'll pick them up and take photos to share on our social media.

Please either email (phil@secretsanta.ltd) with your details OR, feel free to call us anytime on 07866 566166. Or simply click the “donate” button, and we'll do the rest. - Thank you so much.

2022's GOAL is £25,000