Newark charity shops create displays for Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations
Charity shops in Newark are ready to play their part in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, write Gianluca Spataro and Will Hugall.
Staff at shops around the town are excited to welcome customers and volunteers during a time where the community can unite and celebrate together.
Oxfam Bookshop, on Cartergate, has an elegant display very much worthy of a royal thank you.
Shop manager John Conlon said: “We wanted to commemorate it. One of our volunteers knitted the bunting and we have spent the past year saving anything that comes in on royalty.
“We have actually been planning it for about a year.
“I hope everyone has a really good time and really enjoys it. I hope there’s street parties and that everyone puts out bunting.”
A rummage at Barnardo’s next, just off Portland Street, revealed some on-theme bunting and an excellent era-specific post-box for customers to snap up.
Sales assistant Linda Evans said: “We are dressing up for the day, wearing long dresses, tiaras and Queen face masks.
“People are quite ready to celebrate. Everyone likes a bit of a celebration.”
In the Beaumond House Hospice Care Shop on Stodman Street, there was plenty of memorabilia ready to go on public display.
Shop manager Liz Freshney hopes to display items from the time the Queen was coronated up to the present day as a celebration of the jubilee milestone.
Liz said: “As it is for charity, it’s really important that we jump on the whole thing.
“We have decided to go for a theme around the era so basically anything from through the 70 years rather than fixating on a certain date.
“We’ve gone right across the board.”
The Cancer Research shop, a short walk away, is celebrating 20 years of fundraising this year alongside the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
All of the shop’s staff are excited for the day and hope their majestic display attracts customers to step inside their friendly atmosphere.
Area manager Neil Asher said: “We are getting behind it and hopefully we have got some of the things — the flags, the bunting — that people want.”
