If Santa got it wrong this year and didn’t bring you quite the gifts you were looking for – Wimborne’s Museum of East Dorset could put your unwanted presents to good use.
The town’s museum is a charity and organises many fundraising events throughout the year with all proceeds going to help sustain the running of the award-winning museum.
Fundraising also helps support many of the valuable community engagement programmes such as the museum’s Reminiscence Outreach programme. Designed to help stimulate those living with dementia, experienced museum volunteers visit care homes and day centres with memorabilia and objects. The Museum of East Dorset also supports Wimborne Food Bank and provides crafts and activity sessions for underprivileged children.
Director Francesca Hollow said: “We always need good-quality raffle and tombola prizes for our events. If anyone has an overload of new and unwanted toiletries, biscuits, sweet tins, wine – please consider us. Unwanted, unopened and duplicate gifts – we’d love to put them to fundraising use.”
You can drop off your donations to the museum shop which is open from 10am until 4pm Monday to Saturday, reopening after Christmas on Saturday 10th January.
A lovely gift, but perhaps unwanted by this recipient?