Residents from Colten Care homes have filled more than 100 shoeboxes with gifts for disadvantaged babies and children in Ukraine and Romania this Christmas.
The boxes, which have been packed with soft toys, stationery, warm gloves and mittens, books and toiletries, were handed over to the Rotary Club of Boscombe & Southbourne, which is collecting shoeboxes across the district for distribution this month.
Colten Care’s senior companionship team leader Donia O’Connor said: “We are very proud at Colten Care to have a long-standing relationship with the Rotary and this wonderful scheme.”

Colten homes which have provided shoeboxes this year are Brook View and Amberwood House in Ferndown, Avon Cliff in Bournemouth, Fernhill in Longham, Kingfishers in New Milton, Linden House, Belmore Lodge and Court Lodge in Lymington, Whitecliffe House in Blandford Forum, Abbey View in Sherborne, Newstone House in Sturminster Newton, St Catherines View and Abbotts View in Winchester and Canford Chase, The Aldbury and Bourne View in Poole.
Boscombe & Southbourne Rotarians David Shires, Leon Warner and Neal Curtis, pictured above, collected all the boxes from Bourne View in Poole.