An Irvine community centre and nursery have smashed their Christmas present giveaway expectations.
Castlepark Community Centre's annual wish tree campaign, in partnership with Castlepark Early Years, is said to have received more gifts from kindhearted donors than ever before.
Now in its fourth year, the Christmas Wish Tree, ensures that every child in need in the community receives a gift they asked Santa for.
Speaking to Ayrshire Live before the event, volunteer Sally McIntyre explained: "The wish tree is not about collecting just any toys or donations for the kids, we ask people to give a gift the child has asked Santa for.
"It's so important to make Christmas Day as special as it can be and nothing makes a child happier than knowing Santa has got them what they've been looking forward to all festive period."
Last year, around 70 gifts were donated to the Wish Tree but this year, bighearted donors smashed that record.
Although the final count hasn't been tallied it's thought close to 100 gifts may have been donated this year.
Sally said: "They were taking the gift tags off the tree quicker than I could put them up. There wasn't a single tag left of a branch, every child who asked got what they wanted from Santa this year."
"I won't know the final count until the nursery reopens next year but we've definitely exceeded the 70. I wouldn't be surprised if it was around the 100 mark.
"It was a brilliant turn out and I can't thank everyone enough for donating.
"And I want to give a big thank you to Darren Clark for donating £500 to the cause and to his dad who added an extra 100 which helped buy any remaining gifts needed and even added food vouchers for Christmas treats.
"It's hard to say what the most popular gift this year was; we had requests for Barbie Dream House and Paw Patrol was asked for and a lot of the older kids wanted art supplies.
"Also, we want to thank Tesco who supported us and donated a new Christmas tree after last year's tree was damaged in storage."
Irvine man Darren Clark said: "I've donated to the community centre Wish Tree for the past three years.
"It's my favourite one to do because you know it's going towards someone close to home and really makes their Christmas special.
"I do charity work for Huntington's too.
"I raised the money by doing a football hidden team scratch card and promoting it on social media.
"It sold out in the space of a week.
"For Easter, I'll be raising money for Crosshouse children's ward."
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