Record-Breaking Generosity for Hartlepool Giving Tree

Middleton Grange Shopping Centre is proud to celebrate the outstanding success of the Hartlepool Giving Tree 2025, which has achieved its most impactful year to date, with a remarkable 6,226 gifts donated to children and families in need.

This figure represents an incredible increase of 2,039 gifts compared to 2024 – a 49% year-on-year rise – highlighting the continued generosity and compassion of the Hartlepool community, alongside supporters from across the North East and the wider UK.

Once again, the Giving Tree at Middleton Grange became a focal point of the festive season, inviting shoppers, local businesses and visitors to take a tag, purchase a gift and help ensure that children across the region could experience the joy of Christmas. Donations were also supported through online gifting, enabling people from further afield to play their part.

Nik McDonald, centre manager at Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, said: “We’re absolutely overwhelmed by the response to the Hartlepool Giving Tree 2025. To see donations grow by nearly 50% is truly extraordinary and a powerful reflection of the kindness that exists within our community and beyond.

“Every gift donated has helped bring joy to a child or family who needed it most, and we’re hugely grateful to everyone who supported the appeal!”

The Hartlepool Giving Tree continues to go from strength to strength, supported by a network of local partners, charities and volunteers who work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure donations reach those who need them most.

Middleton Grange Shopping Centre would like to extend its sincere thanks to all donors, volunteers, partner organisations and shoppers who contributed to making the 2025 Giving Tree appeal the most successful in its history.

For more information about the Hartlepool Giving Tree and how to get involved in future campaigns, visit hartlepoolgivingtree.co.uk and middleton-grange.co.uk