Ideas for Workplaces
Operation Christmas Child is a great way to introduce corporate social responsibility to your workplace, whilst bringing love and joy into the lives of children in need overseas.
Here are some ways you can get involved:
- Circulate an e-mail or memo explaining the project and how to get involved. Make sure to include a link to our website.
- Share a video or story with the team
- Distribute ‘How to Pack a shoebox’ leaflets and preprinted shoeboxes and let people know what day you will collect completed boxes.
- Make Your Project Donation here.
- Host an Operation Christmas Child lunch. Employees can bring empty shoeboxes and filler items, or your workplace may be willing to donate some filler items.
- Have a look at some of our fundraising ideas.
- Hold a departmental shoebox challenge and see which department can fill the most boxes. Alternatively, work together and each bring a gift to contribute – then see how many shoeboxes you can fill.
- Sign up to process shoeboxes gifts at a regional Processing Centre.
Become a Drop-off Location
Connect with your local community by becoming an official drop-off location and collecting shoebox gifts in your local area during National Collection Week (10-17 November, 2025).
Corporate volunteering
Be part of processing shoeboxes gifts ready for shipping at a regional Processing Centre.
The cast of the Aladdin packing shoebox gifts
Members of the Wigley Group volunteering alongside Operation Christmas Child Director Nick Cole and two volunteers from Ukraine.
Two colleagues processing shoebox gifts for children in need around the world
