Fort William High Street at Christmas

Come along to Fort William High Street and enjoy some late night shopping in a Christmas atmosphere. Many shops will be open along with food vendors and some live music. Fun for children and the young at heart. Come along and support your local retailers and take a break from the internet a for one night : - )

High Street Christmas lighting switch on

The Buzz Bus

Segways

The Elfen Workshop at the old putting green shed is where children can bring their ‘wish lists’ to Santa.  They’ll then get to have a Lucky Dip in Santa’s Sack

Christmas Games, Gifts and Card Fair at the Alex – see below

Santa’s Grotto in Sweetness run by Cancer Research

Wee pony and trap from the Ardgour Riding Centre

15 minute panto by Bright Productions (will be performed twice during the evening)

Elf on a Shelf Competition – there will be a wee story emerging on Facebook about this.  I’ve posted up the first bit,  three naughty elves have gone AWOL from Santa’s workshop.  We may need help to find them on the night.  This is a really cute competition for children.

Christmas Gathering Raffle – Anyone purchasing on the High Street on the 28^th can take their receipts to the Games Fair during the evening to get their raffle ticket.  Raffle will be drawn at the end of the evening

Would you like to have fun raising some money for your charity or community group at the Christmas Gathering?

The Alexandra Hotel have generously given us their dining room for the evening and we are holding a Games Fair. This exciting and unique event is being organized by Fort William Town Team and Lochaber Chamber of Commerce.

Each charity or group will be given a table to decorate and on which to run their game. You can make up your own themed game, but to make it easy we have a list of 20 Christmas themed games to choose from. You could run a ‘Bauble Bobbing’ stall, or what about a spot of ‘Snowball Scavenging’, or invite folk to have a go at ‘Plucking a Turkey’, or even trying to ‘Knock Santa down the Chimney’.

To make the event more of a fundraiser, you can bring along charity cards and small gifts to sell on your stall too.

We hope it’ll be a really enjoyable and entertaining way to raise money for your charity or group.

And there are prizes too, the Chamber of Commerce are offering a donation of £200 to the best dressed stall. The Alex will award a meal for two to the best fancy dressed stall holders.

The stalls are free and are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. So, if you’d like to know more about the games or to reserve your table, please get in touch with Jackie Clifford at [email protected]