Help spread the word – Email this page to a Friend!

Welcome to Shoebox World... where you create your own gift-filled shoebox online and we send it out to a child in need.

No shopping trips, wrapping paper or hours of time required - just a personalised gift sent by you to a child who needs it most. It’s a great way to give this Christmas.

Here's how it works:

Decide if you want to have all the fun for yourself or do it together as a family at home
Visit the Shoebox World website and start creating your personalised shoebox.
Choose your wrapping paper, gifts and add a personal message and photo.
Make a payment for your gifts and a donation for shipping.
Our team of volunteers will then make up your shoebox and send it out to a child in need.

Once you've done it, we’ll even give you a personalised shoebox graphic, which you can have some fun with – plot it on our Shoebox World map or post it on your Facebook page.

Enter Shoebox World now to start creating your own gift-filled shoebox..

If you're still not sure quite what to make of this, then watch this short video to see the joy your shoebox could bring to a child in need...

Shoebox World is part of the UK's largest children's Christmas appeal, Operation Christmas Child, which has been sending gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need around the world since 1990.
Operation Christmas child is run by the relief and development charity, Samaritan’s Purse.

Samaritan's Purse

Victoria House, Victoria Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, IG9 5EX

Samaritan's Purse International is registered as a charity within England and Wales (1001349) and in Scotland (SCO39251) and as an incorporated company registered by guarantee (2462257).

Find out more about Samaritan's Purse