Please #BuildToGive

Posted by Huw, 17 Nov 2017 19:01

Earlier today our favourite charity Fairy Bricks suffered a devastating blow when 2000 sets destined to be delivered to children in hospital and hospices were stolen from its van.

They were part of a joint campaign with LEGO called Build To Give which aims to deliver up to 20,000 sets to kids in hospitals before Christmas. There's a lot info about the campaign on LEGO's Facebook.page.

You can help get it back on track: all you have to do is build a Christmas decoration out of LEGO and post a photo of it on social media with the hashtag #BuildToGive. For every one that you post LEGO will donate another set.

So, tip out your bricks and get building!

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18 comments on this article

By GBP_Chris in United States, 17 Nov 2017 19:49

On it! What social media platforms will work for this?

By quark12000 in United States, 17 Nov 2017 21:02

Wait. 2000 sets were stolen?! TWO THOUSAND?! The sheer logistics of the theft is nuts! I hope whoever is investigating this is on the ball.

By KTTBricker in United States, 17 Nov 2017 21:19

Yes!! I'm going to try to build and post as much as possible!

By catwheeler in United States, 17 Nov 2017 21:26

I'm setting a goal of building 100 ornaments!

By KyloRen0806 in Denmark, 17 Nov 2017 21:40

I’m not sure if I will build something - not that I won’t support, of course. I just want to ask: if I build a Christmas tree ornament does it need a cord/string to be accepted as an ornament? I know it’s a werid question but I will just be sure.

Another question, like chrismajor 2124 said which media is intended for this campaign?

And how long is this campaign available?

Sorry, too many questions

By palmertrade in United States, 17 Nov 2017 22:01

I read it as a 'Christmas Decoration' so I assume it doesn't have to be an ornament. I posted part of the Christmas part of our town with the hashtag. Figured that would work.

Even friends I have who are not into Lego have heard of this. Hopefully in the end they will have even more than 2000 sets to give to kids.

By Huw in United Kingdom, 17 Nov 2017 22:38

Just build anything that would pass as a decoration!

By Venunder in United Kingdom, 18 Nov 2017 00:40

https://brickset.com/sets/40222-1
I assume somebody is checking all these sellers at the bottom of the page?

Time for a donation to FB.

Keep up the good work everyone at FB and Brickset.

By paytonarnett03 in United States, 18 Nov 2017 01:34

YouTube will count, right

By Baby_Yoda in Australia, 18 Nov 2017 02:11

Is it plausible that the thief wanted the sets so they could build more Christmas ornaments for the campaign?

By ZG_Brickfilms in United States, 18 Nov 2017 03:33

If I make a YouTube video with 10 ornaments in it and post the hashtag, would it count as one set being donated or 10. I already built a bunch of ornaments with the holidays in mind, and I'd definitely want to do everything I can to help get sets donated to the kids. If I have to, I'd upload 10 separate videos with the hashtag to donate 10 sets.