The festive season is under way in Rye and the Cards for Good Causes charity Christmas card shop is open in the Community Centre, Conduit Hill.
Sadly you may not have seen signs around the town as, as soon as they have been put up, they have been taken down, by whom is unknown. The shop is open from 10am – 4pm Tuesday to Saturday until December 15.
Buying Christmas cards through Cards for Good Causes is the best way to get access to the widest selection of Christmas cards available, as well as a fantastic range of seasonal gifts and products, while supporting a range of national and local charities.
Staffed by a team of local volunteers, the Rye pop-up shop is part of a network of more than 300 temporary shops run by Cards for Good Causes, the UK’s largest charity Christmas card organisation. It represents more than 250 charities including Cancer Research UK, Barnardo’s, NSPCC, Alzheimer’s Society and RNLI as well as a number of local charities such as Friends of Rye Harbour, Hi Kent, Make a Wish Foundation, Motor Neurone Disease, Rye & Winchelsea District Memorial Hospital, The Romney Marshes Historic Churches, SASBAH and The Oliver Curd Trust.
Shoppers will be able to choose from hundreds of different Christmas card designs, as well as traditional advent calendars and candles, wrapping paper, gift tags, napkins and stocking fillers. Created especially for this season, local Christmas card designs include Richard Adams “Christmas Goodies”.
In the past ten years, charities have received more than £40 million from Cards for Good Causes, representing at least 70p in every pound, from which the charities pay for the production and distribution of their Christmas cards and any VAT.
Source: Cards for Good Causes
Image Credits: Rye Charity Card Shop .