Welcome to the Secret Santa Appeal website where you will find all the information you need to get involved and help us reach our goal of providing a gift a a needy children throughout the Bradford District, Calderdale and Kirklees areas.

Every year since 1989, we get together with all kinds of organisations such as schools, businesses and shopping centres to collect Christmas presents via pop-up collection points or running mini appeals within some of these organisations.

We would like to say a huge thank you to the Bradford Bulls Community Foundation for supporting the Secret Santa  Appeal. Their generosity and support play an important role in helping us collect, manage, and distribute gifts to families across the district.  You can find out more about their fantastic work here: https://bullsfoundation.org/

The appeal collects over 6,000 presents each year. This project is one of the largest of its kind in the country and we would like to thank each and every person who has donated a present via our Secret Santa Appeal drop off points in Bradford, Eureka! the national children’s museum, Halifax and Fresh Futures, Brian Jackson House, 2 New North Parade, Huddersfield HD1 5JP.  All have helped to make a needy child’s Christmas that bit more special.

The ‘mini-appeal’ approach is one of the most successful elements of our award-winning and world-famous Secret Santa Appeal. Organisations of all kinds — from businesses, factories, and offices to schools and colleges — use the mini-appeal model, yielding anything from half a dozen gifts from a small office to several hundred gifts from larger organisations and schools.

The team that run this appeal do so entirely on a volunteer basis, and to ensure its continued success we rely on your help to collect gifts for these families and children.

We are extremely grateful for the continued support we receive from our local community.

The appeal runs between the end of November and mid December.

You can ‘LIKE’ our Facebook page at fb.com/secretsantaappeal or follow us on X @secretsantaWY and find up-to-date information as it is released.

If you are interested in knowing more about what we do and how to get involved just email team@secretsantaappeal.org.uk