YOUNG people in a village are helping a charity send 100 gift shoe boxes to children in need this Christmas.

Pupils from Pool C of E Primary, supported by their families, filled the containers with everything from toys and pens to toothbrushes and soap.

Their donations, to Samaritan’s Purse UK’s Operation Christmas Child Appeal, will be delivered to children across the world who would otherwise have nothing at all to open on December 25.