Your chance to play Santa at Meadowhall's 'giving box' this Christmas

Visitors can use contactless payment to easily donate £3, £5 or £10 at the box – located on Upper Level High Street, towards Boots – to Sheffield Children’s Hospital, St Luke’s Hospice, Sheffield Mind and Age UK Sheffield.

Sheffield Children’s Hospital is on a mission to do more than ever to support patients and their families this Christmas, with donations helping to fund life-saving equipment and new facilities above the NHS provision.

Donations for St Luke’s Hospice will help to fund Christmas dinner and celebrations in the St Luke’s In Patient Centre, and provide their Community Nursing team with PPE and kit for their rapid response equipment bags.

Sheffield Mind is working hard to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone. People need their support more than ever at this time of year, and demand for their services is growing.

Donations will help them to continue to provide free of charge counselling and support to those most in need including people who are lonely, isolated or bereaved.

A donation to Age UK will help to fund the charity’s advice line for vulnerable older people, provide a day of respite support for an older person living with memory loss, or help an older person to continue to live happily in their own home.

Darren Pearce, centre director at Meadowhall, said: “This festive season, it seems only right to focus on supporting the people, charities and organisations who have gone above and beyond to help the people most in need in our community.

“We hope our customers will enjoy reversing the role of Santa and giving back to these amazing organisations that help people across the region.”

The centre has also launched a competition to reward someone who has gone out of their way to support the local community this year with £500 to spend on themselves at Meadowhall as a small ‘thank you’ for all their hard work.

To nominate someone special you’ll need to fill out a simple entry form on Meadowhall’s website to explain why you think they deserve to win.