CHRISTMAS is approaching and so is the annual Christmas Gift Fair, on 25 and 26 October at Panthers Port Macquarie to raise funds for Endeavour Clubhouse.
Now in its sixteenth year it has grown into an event that fills Panthers Auditorium to the brim.
The Christmas Gift Fair brings together stalls filled with handmade gifts and festive foods.
Shoppers can pick up candles, jewellery, children’s clothes, table runners and Christmas decorations all for a good cause.
Ruth Durrant, the event organiser said, “I am amazed at previous customers whom I don’t know, who stop me in the street to ask the date of the Gift Fair and then enter it in their phones and diaries.”
“Many of our stallholders do not appear at local markets, so customers can see plenty of different products on display.
“Customers are usually very keen to get to the gingerbread stall (Dough in Bows) and to the Pudding Lane stall from Newcastle.”
All proceeds from the fair go directly to assist in the daily operation of Endeavour Clubhouse.
This registered local charity opened in 2015 after 13 years of fundraising.
Endeavour supports people with a lived experience of mental illness at a purpose built facility which operates four days a week on Hastings River Drive.
It is a non-clinical facility where members are encouraged to take a leading role in their recovery.
Endeavour is for adults who have experienced the social and vocational damage that mental health problems can cause.
Endeavour relies on fundraising via the gift fair and other activities.
Christmas Gift Fair is being held on Saturday 25 October 10am-4pm and Sunday 26 October 10am-3pm at Panthers Auditorium
By Pauline CAIN
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