Charity, Wimborne | Posted on January 3rd, 2025 | return to news
Dorset museum offers to put unwanted Christmas gifts to good use
Did Santa get it wrong this year? Why not donate unwanted presents to a local charity, such as Wimborne’s Museum of East Dorset?
Did Santa bring you the wrong present this year? Did you receive a gift that wasn’t quite what you were looking for? Then Wimborne’s Museum of East Dorset could put your unwanted gift to good use.
The town’s museum is also a charity and organises many fundraising events through the year, with all proceeds going towards the running of the museum, which is housed in a Grade II* listed building dating from late Elizabethan/early Jacobean times.
Fundraising also helps support many community engagement programmes run by the museum, such as the 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 children.
Museum Director Francessca 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.”
To drop off any donations, visit the museum shop which is open from 10am until 4pm, Monday to Saturday.
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