Beaumond House is ready to open their new Collingham store.

A charity that provides palliative care is appealing for help with a new shop due to open in the autumn.

Beaumond House Community Hospice, Newark, already has shops in Newark and Southwell and is now ready to open a third one, in Collingham.

A coffee morning will be held at the Lincolnshire Coop in the village a week on Monday, August 19, from 10am to 11am for anybody interested in being involved.

Volunteer co-ordinator Lucy Millard said she hoped residents and those living in surrounding areas would get behind the project and help ensure its success.

“We need help in so many ways,” she said.

“We are looking for people to help decorate the unit and get it ready, to donate goods, to help serve in the shop and to come along and be regular customers.”

Collingham Scout Group has already said it will help to deliver leaflets to homes in the village, which will provide information about the new shop and how people can donate.

“We are so grateful to them and if any other groups are able to help in this way I would love to hear from them,” said Lucy.

“We would really like to have lots of groups, schools and residents all helping us with this to make sure it is a brilliant success.”

Fundraising and marketing manager Cathy Lowe said the shops provided a very important source of funds for the hospice.

“At Beaumond House we feel we are at the heart of the local community and our shops are an extension of that,” she said.

“We rely on local people to help to make them a success.”

The shops need donations of unwanted items such as clothes, shoes, books and bric-a-brac as well as small household items.

“This means we can ensure our costs are low and the maximum contribution is made to support the work of the hospice,” said Cathy.

She said it had always been their ambition to open a third high street store and so they were delighted that the shop in Collingham would be opening in October.

“We continue to support a large number of patients from the Collingham area and so the community is very aware of the hospice and has always been incredibly supportive,” she said.

The new shop will be next to Collingham Medical Centre off the High Street, in a unit under the dental surgery.

“The location of the unit in Collingham is ideal, it is centrally placed, easily accessible with the added benefit of parking at the front,” said Cathy.

“We hope it will attract a lot of donors, volunteers and, of course shoppers.”

Anybody able to help should contact Lucy at lucy.millard@beaumond house.co.uk