Throughout December Co-op Academy Swinton Safeguarding Lead, Steph Hinton and Manchester United Foundation Officer, Adele Howarth have been appealing to our staff, family and friends for donations of non-perishable food or money to enable us to create some Christmas hampers for our community.

As always, our academy community stepped up and were incredibly generous. Our appeal turned out to be very successful and the donations we received allowed us to make an impressive eighteen hampers packed with goodies.

Some of Adele’s Year 8 Social Action students, along with our Head Girl and two Deputy Head Girls kindly volunteered to help cover the hamper boxes with festive wrapping to make them even more wonderful.

Thank you to everyone who contributed. Your donations will make a huge difference to the families and local care homes we distribute them to. Huge thanks go to our local Asda and Morrisons in Swinton too who kindly donated items for our hampers…Fred the Red even showed up to help us with our shopping trip!