A BANK is urging people to donate their unwanted Christmas presents to a charity shop.
The Chester-le-Street branch of the Abbey has started accepting gifts that people did not like or had already and will hand them over to the town's Help the Aged shop, which will sell them to raise money for the charity's work.
The bank's Unwanted Christmas Gift Appeal will run until Monday, January 19.
The appeal is part of a national drive by the company, which has already made a £10,000 donation to the charity.
Elizabeth Forster, manager of the Chester-le-Street branch in Front Street, said: "Every year we waste huge sums of money on unwanted Christmas gifts and it is from this that the Unwanted Christmas Gift Appeal was born.
"Instead of hiding these presents at the back of a cupboard we're asking people to donate them so they can be sold on to those who really want them and at the same time raise money for the charity."
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