The newspaper's annual Christmas Fund and Toy Appeal has played a big part in helping provide toys for children of the poor across the city down the decades. Another campaign which raised millions of pounds was the paper's Boots For Bairns campaign which provide footwear for children living in the city's slums. These photos, plucked from the YEP archive celebrate the gift of giving down the decades. READ MORE: Memories of YEP Women's Circle - the Leeds club with 50,000 members LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. Christmas Fund
Food parcels being prepared to provide Christmas cheer to those poor homes in December 1934.
2. Christmas Fund
Horsforth Townswomen's Guild bought and dressed a consignment of dolls for the Christmas Fund in December 1968. Pictured are four of the Guild's officers, from left, Mrs. D. Midgley (ex-president), Mrs. M. Laurie (president), Mrs. L. Allen (immediate past chair) and Mrs. M. Dibb (chair).
3. Toy Appeal
Thousands of toys pictured in the YEP garage on Marlborough Street, were being packed for distribution in December 1966.
4. Toy Appeal
Children of Lower Wortley Infants School are seen handing toys they had collected to an Evening Post van driver in November 1954.
5. Toy Appeal
The Redhaw family set up a stall outside Moortown Post Office in November 1958 selling books, sweets and fancy goods. Standing by the stall are, from left, Martin Redshaw, 15, Mrs. R. B. Redshaw and Digby, ten.
6. Christmas Fund
October 1968 on Ivy Mount, York Road and children with their Guy collect for the YEP Christmas Fund.