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Digital Agency Box up Christmas Joy For Children

A digital agency in Derbyshire has joined forces with a school to make Christmas a bit brighter for poverty stricken children in third world countries.

For the past three years award-winning Fifteen, based in Ilkeston, has been helping Larkfields Infant School in Nuthall to collect shoeboxes filled with toys and gifts. This year the collaboration provided 100 boxes which will be donated as Christmas gifts in the Samaritan’s Purse scheme Operation Christmas Child.

Every member of the Fifteen team was involved in shopping for gifts, packing, wrapping the boxes and delivering them to the school.

Ollie Piddubriwnyj, managing director of Fifteen, said: “It’s really important to us as a business to share our success with the community and give something back. It means a lot to me that everyone at Fifteen gets involved in helping out and shares the experience of packing the boxes too.

“The entire team looks forward to doing this each year and every time we see the pictures of the children receiving the gifts we remember how brilliant it feels to make them smile. It’s extra special to do something for the school that my daughter attends too. I want her to be proud of her dad’s business and friends.”

Jane Maltby, school administrator at Larkfields, said that the school had managed to collect 70 boxes from the pupils and the extra 30 would make a grand total of 100 boxes for the charity – the most boxes the school has ever donated.

More information can be found at www.fifteen.co.uk

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