New craft shop to disperse profits

Horsham shoppers can buy a variety of homemade craft and gardening-related goods from an ecumenical Christian shop that will open in Mclachlan Street on Monday.

The new shop, Craft for a Cause, is under Horsham’s T and G tower and replaces a similar and former Adelphian craft shop run by Church of Christ.

The shop is welcoming donations and will be selling everything from seedlings and plant-related goods to craft items created from knitting, needlework and crocheting.

Organisers will disperse all profits from the shop to district charities and community projects such as Christian Emergency Food Centre, chaplaincy services and Carols by Candlelight.

A five-member committee including Margaret Adams, Jan Morris, John Evans, Max Burns and Joy Walter is running the shop, which will open from 10am to 4pm five days a week.

Mrs Morris said the doors would open to shoppers, and people or groups keen to help supply items for the shop.

“It is very much an ecumenical project. We can’t just be just be stuck in our churches. We need to be outreaching,” she said.

“The shop provides more than a simple retail outlet. It is also a centre for engagement and promotes the idea of health and wellbeing and illness prevention.

“We’re really hoping some of the volunteers to work in the shop are young people who might be able to use the opportunity to gain experience.”