Chance for charities to take part in grand market
Monday, 18th October 2010.
Shoppers and visitors will have the chance to remember St Edmund during a weekend charity market in Bury St Edmunds next month.
Charities and good causes are being invited to sell their goods or promote their organisation from one of the German-style wooden chalets being put up at the arc shopping centre on November 20 and 21.
The chalets - the kind found at continental festive markets - will be used the following weekend by businesses taking part in the annual Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre (November 26-28).
Sharon Fairweather, manager of the Tourist Information Centre and organiser of the fayre, said: “Some people still regard St Edmund, whose shrine was at Bury St Edmunds, as our patron saint but he can get overlooked in the hectic run-up to Christmas.
“We’re inviting charities to get in touch if they’d like to hire one of the chalets. There will only be a small charge and with enough interest our St Edmund Charity Market could be just the event to get everyone in the mood for the celebrations to come.”
Contact Sharon on 01284 764667 or email tic@stedsbc.gov.uk
St Edmund was King of East Anglia and was martyred by invading Danes on November 20, 869. Pilgrims came from all over the world to worship at his shrine in the now ruined abbey.
Charities and good causes are being invited to sell their goods or promote their organisation from one of the German-style wooden chalets being put up at the arc shopping centre on November 20 and 21.
The chalets - the kind found at continental festive markets - will be used the following weekend by businesses taking part in the annual Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre (November 26-28).
Sharon Fairweather, manager of the Tourist Information Centre and organiser of the fayre, said: “Some people still regard St Edmund, whose shrine was at Bury St Edmunds, as our patron saint but he can get overlooked in the hectic run-up to Christmas.
“We’re inviting charities to get in touch if they’d like to hire one of the chalets. There will only be a small charge and with enough interest our St Edmund Charity Market could be just the event to get everyone in the mood for the celebrations to come.”
Contact Sharon on 01284 764667 or email tic@stedsbc.gov.uk
St Edmund was King of East Anglia and was martyred by invading Danes on November 20, 869. Pilgrims came from all over the world to worship at his shrine in the now ruined abbey.
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