National Lottery winners bring Christmas magic to South Wales children

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A team of generous National Lottery winners have sprinkled a little extra Christmas magic in Caerphilly, packing and wrapping giftboxes of toys for local children to enjoy this festive season.   Christmas tunes filled the air, as the group were put to work at the ToyBox Project in Bedwas, Caerphilly, a National Lottery-funded good cause that collects pre-loved and new toy donations and gifts these to families and organisations in need across South  Wales.

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00:00So we are wrapping presents for children that wouldn't normally get a present or a gift

00:05for Christmas, which is sad really, this time of year, everybody should get something.

00:10Yeah, so we're here helping and the families, we've actually got to meet a lady this morning

00:17and give her the box that's for her child for Christmas, so that he is actually going

00:21to get something for Christmas.

00:23We help everyone from far and wide, even as far as Ireland, but most commonly sort of

00:28Swansea, the valleys and Newport sort of region.

00:31And we help everyone from local families to schools and teachers and after school clubs

00:38and all sorts of people like that.

00:40And it's just so important because there are so many stories, lots of different reasons

00:45that people may need more toys, especially in this climate that we have.

00:49Christmas is an expensive time of year, Kiara was into Toy Story back in May, now she's

00:54Spider-Man in December, you know. I can't afford to be going to the shops, you know, prices

00:58of Marvel and Disney, you know. So it's lovely to have a local place like this with no criteria,

01:03no catchment areas, you know, where I can go and access it for free. So it's really lovely

01:07to find that out. So it will really help us.

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