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Prospero’s Project

A Glimpse of (Christmas) Stocking

We are chuffed to report that our Christmas drive raised more than £1,800 pounds from sales of Christmas stockings we made.

We’ll use the money to purchase books for the Alfriston Village School, where budget cuts have made it difficult for them to provide a rich variety of books for the children to enjoy. School parents, teachers and students have given us a ‘wants’ list, and we’re delighted that we can provide all the in-print books they name – and more, besides!

Some of the money came from Deans Place Hotel in Alfriston, which commissioned 55 small-sized stocking for their Christmas guests. Volunteers from the school’s FTPA helped make these, raising £220 towards the total.

We are grateful to everyone who purchased one of our stockings; one of our great pleasures on Christmas Eve is thinking about all the stockings we fashioned, filled with delightful presents waiting for somebody.

Handing over a wonderful selection of books for young readers is a further , inspiring delight; we are already making new stockings for next year . . .

Woolly Problem

Here’s a problem with our success crafting stockings: Finding wool blankets that have passed their useful life. We often find them in thrift shops, where we usually ask for ‘Dog blankets’. Unfortunately, we have found that lately there are fewer and fewer woollen blankets available – modern acrylics have supplanted them.

If you are minded to help us, perhaps you have an old wool blanket hanging about that you could donate to the cause. We would be grateful for any size, colour, design or weight – as long as it is made of wool, so we can ‘felt’ it and make it into a fund-raising stocking.

Simply bring your unwanted woollen blankets to Much Ado, anytime we’re open – or contact us to make arrangements so we can meet you when we’re closed.