Welcome to the
 Greater Charleston Area Online Angel Tree

Making a difference in your community…

The Salvation Army has been serving the Charleston community since 1906.

Angel Tree serves over 2,000 children in your area every year.

Angel Trees are on-site in certain Wal-Mart and MUSC locations.

Salvation Army Angel Tree volunteers devote thousands of hours of their time each year.
Providing Christmas gifts for a child does so much more than brighten their day this year. The feeling of being loved sticks with them for a lifetime.

How Angel Tree Works

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The Salvation Army hosts in-person registration events all over the Greater Charleston area in September and October.
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We obtain the name of each child under 12, and a list of needs and desired Christmas gifts to assist donors in shopping for the children.
3
Angel Tree tags are printed and distributed to various business, clubs, and organizations throughout the community for donors to select.
4
Generous donors select and purchase gifts based on the information printed on each tag, returning them to The Salvation Army by the deadline printed on the tag.
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Upon their return, the gifts are organized and transported to the North Charleston Convention Center to be prepared for distribution to the families.
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The week before Christmas, families come to the Convention Center and a few other smaller locations to pick up the Christmas gifts for their children.
3
Angel Tree tags are printed and distributed to various business, clubs, and organizations throughout the community for donors to select.
4
Generous donors select and purchase gifts based on the information printed on each tag, returning them to The Salvation Army by the deadline printed on the tag.
5
Upon their return, the gifts are organized and transported to the North Charleston Convention Center to be prepared for distribution to the families.
6
The week before Christmas, families come to the Convention Center and a few other smaller locations to pick up the Christmas gifts for their children.
5
Upon their return, the gifts are organized and transported to the North Charleston Convention Center to be prepared for distribution to the families.
6
The week before Christmas, families come to the Convention Center and a few other smaller locations to pick up the Christmas gifts for their children.

A History Of Community Involvement

Along with the familiar Red Kettles, the Angel Tree program is one of The Salvation Army's highest profile Christmas efforts. Angel Tree was created by The Salvation Army in 1979 by Majors Charles and Shirley White when they worked with a Lynchburg, Virginia shopping mall to provide clothing and toys for children at Christmas time.

The program got its name because the Whites identified the wishes of local children by writing their gift needs on Hallmark greeting cards that featured pictures of angels. They placed the cards on a Christmas tree at the mall to allow shoppers to select children to help. Thanks to the Whites, who were assigned by The Army to the Lynchburg area at the time, more than 700 children had a brighter Christmas that first year.

Three years later, when the Whites were transferred to Nashville, Tennessee, Angel Tree was launched in the Music City. WSM radio, which airs the Grand Ol' Opry, came on board that year as the first Angel Tree co-sponsor in the U.S.

Because of the on-air promotion on WSM in Nashville, as well as national publicity on CNN and the Larry King Show, news of Angel Tree spread across the country like wildfire.

Charleston Angel Tree Corporate Partners:

  • MUSC
  • Northwoods Mall
  • Preferred Auto Wholesale
  • The Best Rentals
  • Dorchester County Government
  • Charleston County School District
  • Eggs Up Grill - Belle Hall
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