Reindeer at the ready for troops' kids
Toys for Our Boys is ready to roll into action this Christmas
TOYS FOR OUR BOYS
We team up with Tesco to give every soldier's kids £25 of presents.
ATTEN-SHUN Rudolph! The Toys for Our Boys are packed and ready to be delivered to all the kiddies of Britain's serving troops.
For the last few weeks, the News of the World and Tesco have been preparing parcels of goodies for every one of the 5,500 youngsters with a parent serving on the front line.
They include the children with mums and dads in the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh - who only discovered a few days ago that they will be going to Afghanistan the week before Christmas.
Their Unit Welfare Officer Kim Welsh said: "The deployment of these soldiers is a hard blow for the children at this time of year - the timing could not be worse.
"So anything you can do to ease the pain, we would be extremely grateful for."
Together with supermarket giant Tesco, we have gathered around £140,000 of toys - £25-worth for every youngster - with goodies from Mattel, Lego, Hasbro, Character Group, Vivid Imaginations, Ubisoft and VTech.
Morale
And from this Wednesday, TFOB helpers will deliver the sackloads of gifts around the country.
First off are the Coldstream Guards in Aldershot. Then on Friday it's the turn of the 3 Rifles in Edinburgh. On Saturday, we'll be with 2 Yorks in Weeton, Lancs, and next Sunday we'll be at the huge party for Household Cavalry Regiment, Grenadier Guards, Irish Guards and The Coldstream Guards in Windsor.
Toys for every other barracks will also be distributed in time for Christmas.
This is our way of saying a BIG Thank You to the men and women of the services for the sacrifice they make on Britain's behalf.
And we've already heard from troops that it is providing a much-welcome boost to morale.
Adam Kemp, of the Household Cavalry based at Combermere Barracks, Windsor, said: "We were told about Toys for Our Boys in a briefing and the lads at Camp Bastion with kids are all chuffed about it.
"It's a brilliant idea - cheers!"
Meanwhile Carys Clyde, whose husband Mark is recovering from a blast in Afghanistan two weeks ago, told us: "It's nice to know there are people thinking about the kids come Christmas - they're often forgotten."
Not by us!
Thought this was really interesting, that Tesco play such a big part, at the exhibition we went to, they talked a lot about the support of Tesco.
Posted by: Grace Vernon
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