BASTAS 24

We are sharing our highlights from Be a Santa To a Senior Campaign 2024.

Three smiling people, one in an elf costume, stand by a cart with gift bags in a hospital corridor. - Home Instead

We wanted to share with you our Be A Santa To A Senior Campaign for 2024!

We are thrilled to share the overwhelming success of our Be A Santa To A Senior (BASTAS) campaign for 2024. For those who may not know, each year we work with local businesses, schools and charities to organise and give gifts and cards to those who may be lonely at Christmas across our community in Oxford, and we thank everyone who donated either funds, gifts or time to ensure we could make this happen. The campaign is led by Bev, our Community Engagement Officer. In total we gave out a whopping 60 gift parcels, and we’ll share our journey of the whole campaign below!

Firstly, a huge thank you to the schools who donated items:

Bampton Primary School

Burford Primary School

Ducklington Primary School

And not forgetting Swindon Big Knit, who donated over 300 Chocolate Orange Covers.

A display of knitted Christmas decorations, including hats, snowmen, trees, and stockings. - Home Instead

Here are all the gifts wrapped and ready for delivery.

A row of gift bags and presents lined up on the floor against a classroom wall. - Home Instead

Now is the time for to us to go and give them out to two wards at Witney Community Hospital it was such a privilege and amazing time for us to see all the smiling faces they were so pleased to see the two elves visiting them with all the gifts.

Two people in elf costumes visit an elderly woman in a hospital room, smiling beside her bed. - Home Instead

Two people in elf costumes visit a smiling elderly man in a hospital room with Christmas treats on the table. - Home Instead

An elderly woman in a hospital bed smiles at two people dressed as Christmas elves giving her a gift bag. - Home Instead

We at Home Instead Oxford wish you all a Happy New Year

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