OLDER Wharfedale residents have been benefitting from a festive campaign supported by local schoolchildren. Home Instead Senior Care launched its Be a Santa to a Senior scheme with an eye on helping care home residents feel less isolated over the Christmas period. The campaign got underway in November when the company asked primary school pupils in the area to create and donate Christmas cards, artwork or kind messages. The resulting gifts have now been handed out to clients and residents in Ilkley, including at Chesterton Court Care Home and Straven House Nursing Home, and at Burley Hall in Burley-in-Wharfedale. Home Instead’s Business Development and Marketing Manager, Katie White, said: “We were inundated with responses and had more than 200 donations from several of the local schools.