BOLTON annual Lion’s Christmas Toy Appeal is already looking like a roaring success.

Thanks to donations, enough toys have already been collected to fill 630 sacks.

Lions appeal co-ordinator John Crompton said: “The collections have only been going for just over a week and it’s looking like we’ll be able to give out more than a thousand sacks.”

Now in it’s 36th year, the appeal provides hundreds of the town’s disadvantaged children with gifts for Christmas Day.

Mr Crompton said: “We are very grateful for all the donations so far but we need more items that would be appropriate for boys aged seven to ten.”

Donation points can be found across the borough (see below) and individual organisations are also holding their own in-house collections. These include Warburton’s, Oakwood Distribution, Oaks Primary School, St Paul’s Primary School, University of Bolton, Domis Construction, Co Op Funeral Services and Bolton FM.

This Sunday a number of churches will be having special services where people are invited to donate toys and find out more about the appeal.

The churches are St Stephen’s, Kearsley Moor, St Paul’s,Astley Bridge, Christ Church, Walmsley, The Triangle, Chorley Old Road and The Congregation at St Bede’s, Morris Green.

Collection points are located at: Tesco Horwich, Mansell Way, Middlebrook; Asda Astley Bridge, Moss Bank Way; Asda Horwich, The Linkway, Horwich;The Market Place, Bolton. Toby Carvery, Crompton Way;Horwich Community Centre, Beaumont Road, Horwich.

Readeys Sports Trophies, 428 Chorley Old Road;Hays Travel, 64 Market Street, Westhoughton; Hays Travel, 72 Winter Hey Lane, Horwich. Wyevale Garden centre, Wigan Road, Bolton.

Boots Chemist, Gates Shopping Centre, Bolton; Alexandra West Sales and Lettings, 469 Darwen Road, Bromley Cross; Jeff James Hairshop, 528 Blackburn Road, Astley Bridge; The Coffee Shop at The Triangle, Chorley Old Road.

Buchanan’s, 37 Winter Hey Lane, Horwich; Bolton News, The Wellsprings, Victoria Square;The Beaumont Arms, Armadale Road, Ladybridge; The Southfields, 19 Green Lane, Bolton