The CRESS pavilion will open its doors for its popular Christmas market on Friday 16 December from 10am until 1pm.
Julie will be running her ever popular café with festive cakes and a warming seasonal soup while there will be plenty of opportunities to purchase chutneys and biscuits for Christmas presents from our other stalls. This year our volunteer cooking group has been working with Lime Skills CIC to produce a green tomato chutney and some delicious pumpkin marmalade from our community garden produce, and they will be busy working away between now and the big day to make some more inspiring treats. We also have our last batch of honey from our hives – so hurry along and grab yourself a jar!
Fresh from the garden, we will have winter greens, Jerusalem artichokes and lovey leeks…I can feel a winter soup recipe forming!
For all your winter bedding needs, Chantry Walled Garden winter pansies and spring primroses will be for sale.
Meanwhile, our ActivSheds group has been busy building hedgehog homes and bird boxes as a lovely Christmas present for nature-loving friends and family.
There will be plenty of crafts too with the Maidenhall Residents Association running their festive bric-a-brac stall, and volunteer Sarah from Pop Print selling her original, hand-printed cards, while our volunteers and school children are working on other crafts and decorations.
So why not come along and see what you can find and then relax and have a cuppa and a cake… there are even rumours of Christmas Carols sing-along, which should get you in the Christmas spirit!
The market will be held on Friday 16th December at ActivLives CRESS Pavilion, Halifax Road, Ipswich IP2 8RE from 10am till 12.30 and will extend beyond this time if people want to relax over lunch. There is plenty of parking at the site and on surrounding roads. For further details, or to hold a stall, please contact Jo on 07760 583950 or email jo@activlives.org.uk