Tynwald Mills’ customers are being encouraged to pay for Christmas presents for youngsters who might have been struggling.

The St John’s shopping complex has already been asking people to help residents in care homes.

The two new nomiated charities are St Christopher’s, which works with looked-after and vulnerable young people, and Motiv8, which supports clients and families affected by addictive behaviour.

Launched in late November, the campaign invited visitors to Tynwald Mills to select a tag from a tree in the main foyer.

Each tag carried gift suggestions from care homes around the island for residents isolated from their families at Christmas.

Visitors then bought the type of gift specified - from Tynwald Mills or elsewhere - up to the value of £10 and returned the present, unwrapped, to be received no later than Saturday, December 19.

Tynwald Mills then checks the gifts against the tags, sanitises and wraps them and will deliver the gifts during the week beginning Monday, December 21.

Tynwald Mills’ operations director Lesley O’Neill said: ’We’ve been delighted with the response to our Christmas Gift of Giving campaign.

’With all the care home gift tags taken we felt there was an opportunity to extend the campaign’s reach. The process will be exactly the same for St Christopher’s and Motiv8. We are proud to be supporting these two deserving local causes, each working hard to transform people’s lives.

’The Gift of Giving is proving to be yet another shining example of the Manx community’s well-known generosity of spirit. This campaign is clearly capturing people’s hearts and minds and, for that, all of us at Tynwald Mills offer our sincerest thanks.’