Springhill Hospice wants your unwanted gifts

Springhill Hospice wants your unwanted gifts

The annual Springhill Hospice Spring Fair takes place on Sunday 19 March and the organisers are asking the local community to ‘regift’ unwanted Christmas presents to Springhill Hospice for use at the fair.

Annie Moran, Events Co-ordinator at Springhill, said: “The idea of regifting is to put those unwanted presents you received over the festive season to good use. When you
donate them to the Hospice, we can use them in raffles and tombolas at our events and raise much needed funds for the charity.

"Each year our Spring Fair has gone from strength-to-strength and that’s due to the amount of quality items donated and the generosity of our local community.

“In particular, we are looking for donations of home bake, bottles, chocolates, children’s toys, toiletry gift sets, tombola and raffle prizes and quality bric-a-brac.”

If you have any goods you would like to donate, label them with the word 'regifting' and drop them off at Springhill Hospice reception, Springhill Tea Room and Gift Shop or any of the Hospice’s eight charity shops, or phone 01706 641790 for advice.

Entrance to the Spring Fair is free and includes stalls, a selection of games and Easter gift ideas and lots more from third party stalls.

A free park and ride service will be operating to and from Gordon Rigg Garden Centre on Kingsway.

Annie concluded: “This time of year is the perfect time to have a spring clean, but
instead of throwing away your nic-nacs, bric-a-brac and unwanted gifts, donate them to the Hospice.

“The Spring Fair is such a lovely day for all the family and I really hope people will
support us.”