Leeds Rugby and The Merrion Centre have teamed up with Leeds Mencap to offer a free gift wrapping service on Saturday 10th December 2011.

Any gift purchased at the centre can be wrapped free of charge, simply show your receipt when presenting your gifts to be wrapped. There will be Leeds Rhinos and Leeds Carnegie players from 11am-2pm on Saturday 10th December helping to wrap gifts and autograph gift tags along with the Leeds Rhinos mascot, Ronnie the Rhino. So why not visit the Leeds Rugby Store in the Merrion centre and pick up some Leeds Rhinos or Leeds Carnegie shirts, training range or souvenirs for your family and friends for Christmas and get it gift wrapped all in one shopping trip!!!

The gift wrap is free of charge but donations are very welcome - all proceeds go to Leeds Mencap, a fantastic independent charity which supports children and adults with learning disabilities throughout Leeds. Ruth Fawcett, Head of Fundraising&PR at Leeds Mencap said “We are absolutely thrilled to be working in partnership with both Leeds Rugby and the Merrion Centre in order to help shoppers get their presents wrapped before their recipients are able to take a peek! Furthermore, all donations go to a great local charity which supports over 250 families with learning disabilities per week.”

Andrew Stringer, Centre Manager at the Merrion Centre said: “We’re delighted to have the players here in the centre and extremely pleased to be supporting this fantastic charity that does such a lot of amazing work in the local area. Not only have we got the charity gift wrapping service that day, but Santa’s grotto will be open and we also have an ipad2 prize draw for our customers to enter. With so much going on, there is no better place to do your shopping next Saturday.”

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