The #ChristmasSmiles campaign is underway with customers being welcomed in local branches and thanked for their custom over the last year. Customers may also make a donation to a local charity by buying a bauble for the branch Christmas tree.

The #ChristmasSmiles campaign, is running until 24 December 2015, and will see more than 700 Bank of Ireland UK staff arranging events across Northern Ireland to help raise funds for local charities that are important to them, and is part of the bank’s wider corporate social responsibility programme, Give Together.

Pictured buying the first bauble and making the first donation of the festive season in aid of Barnardo’s and Co-Operation Ireland are James from Ballycarry, Co. Antrim along with Sean Sheehan, Regional Director Consumer and Small Business, Bank of Ireland UK, and Ian Sheppard, Regional Director NI, Business & Corporate Banking, Bank of Ireland UK.