Over 500 new toys and presents have already been donated to children across Harborough this Christmas - here's how you can help

Kind-hearted people have already handed in over 500 new toys and presents for children across Harborough this Christmas.

The goods has been donated to the Toys On The Table appeal in the last fortnight alone.

Harborough Mail readers and Hfm listeners are dropping them off day in day out at Market Harborough’s indoor Harborough Market, the collection point this year.

Cllr Phil King, the leader of Harborough council, is pictured here with Pat Stones from Hfm as they admire just some of the toys brought in.

The popular annual campaign aims to make sure that every disadvantaged child in Harborough and throughout Leicestershire receives at least one gift to open on Christmas Day.

You can drop toys off at Harborough Market from 8am to 3pm Tuesday to Saturday up until Christmas Eve.

“We are really pleased that we are can support the Toys on the Table appeal.

“We also thank our Market staff for coming forward to help,” said Cllr King.

“It is a wonderful campaign that is needed now more than ever, after what has been a difficult year for many people.”

Bill Bowley, who helps to run the Toys on the Table effort, said: “We are so grateful to Harborough Market and the council for supporting us this year when things proved difficult for HFM.

“The people of Harborough are always so generous and help to ensure that disadvantaged children across the county have a present to open on Christmas Day when they otherwise would not.”

The charity distributes toys via referrals from social services, foodbanks, schools and women’s aid groups - and it’s already got double the number of referrals it would receive in a normal year.

More than 3,500 new toys were donated last Christmas.