Save the Children: Annual Country Market
Celebrating it's 35th birthday on Saturday 3 October 2009, the Save the Children Annual Country Market will again take place at The Corn Exchange, Haddington, from 09:30 to 15:00; in the same milestone year that Save the Children celebrates it's 90th birthday.
Every year the Country Market raises up to £15,000 making it the charity's highest fund raising annual event in the whole of the UK. With a vast array of stalls on offer including Home Baking, Clothes, Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables, Larder, Plants, Toys, Sweets, Books, Bric a Brac and Accessories; together with the generosity of the local population, the Save the Children East and Midlothian Branch is keen to exceed their annual total on this double birthday celebration.
In addition to the stalls at the market Save the Children will also run a country café offering teas, coffees, sandwiches and traybakes for the duration of the market, a Save the Children stall and a Raffle with lots of fantastic prizes.
One of the highlights of the Country Market will be the Haddington Pipe Band who will march up the High Street at 10:45 entertaining both locals and visitors alike as volunteers holding a huge Save The Children banner collect for the charity.
For the past 40 years Save the Children Scotland has worked with some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children in Scotland. However 240,000 children in Scotland still live in poverty - that's one in four young people whose parents struggle to get by every day.
90,000 of these children are living in the most severe poverty where there simply isn't enough money to pay for essential items; even the basic necessities such as winter coats, nutritious food and meeting the costs of going back-to-school, all of which can be crippling for families on such a low income.
Save the Children in Scotland is committed to making sure that children's rights are respected and protected across Scotland and that local councils and the Scottish and UK governments keep their promises to end child poverty.
Contributions welcomed at The Corn Exchange, Haddington, on Friday 2 October 2009 from 09:00 - 12:00 and from 13:30 - 18:00. Contributions may also be collected by arrangement.
