You can add some huge excitement to a child's Christmas this year, by getting a personalised letter sent to them from Santa, thanks to the NSPCC.

Charity Christmas gifts from charities such as Oxfam, World Vision and Christian Aid are proving to be a great solution for yuletide shoppers, looking for something meaningful to give their friends or family.

Giving animals to the developing world on someone else's behalf for Christians or a birthday has proved very popular. Now you can give a selection of animals in one go, through Christian Aid'd Present Aid site. Visit Christian Aid's Present Aid site here

Eastenders star, Kara Tointon, has made a promotional video featuring Christian Aid's virtual gifts. The clip, which can be seen on You Tube, shows the actress who plays Dawn Swann in the soap, with children from Zambia.

Mid way through the International Year of Sanitation and more than half way towards the deadline for meeting Millennium Development Goal 7, charity World Vision has released a provocative viral film to raise awareness that 1.1 billion people don't have access to clean water

Christmas shoppers are being urged to be life savers this Christmas by purchasing a simple baby birthing kit - just one of 42 gifts available from the Christmas 07 Present Aid virtual gift catalogue from Christian Aid.