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Marshall’s Mill community donate 186 gifts to Leeds Women’s Aid

The community of businesses based at Marshall’s Mill and The Round Foundry, along with neighbours at the Round Foundry Media Centre, have collected and donated 186 Christmas gifts to Leeds Women’s Aid.

The collection drive has been a regular initiative on the estate for five years. The gifts will be provided to women and children that are supported by the charity this Christmas who otherwise would go without.

Lisa Riley, Marshall’s Mill Events Co-Ordinator and organiser of the annual drive, commented: “It is wonderful to see the business community on the estate come together for the fifth year to really make a difference to families going through a difficult time during the festive period.”

“Each year our tenants get more and more generous with their donations, and we continue to gain more gifts than the year previously, meaning that more women and children can receive a gift this year where they otherwise would not have.”

The Christmas gift collection is just one of many local charity initiatives that the community at Marshall’s Mill take part in throughout the year. Tenants took part in the Leeds 10k in July this year, raising over £500 for Leeds Mind, along with taking part in a Christmas quiz fundraiser earlier in December where tenants raised £225 for homelessness charity Emmaus Leeds.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Kirstie Wilson .