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Christmas Shopping at Art in the Heart

On Monday 4th November 2013 from 5pm-8pm, the highly inspirational and ground breaking outlet, Art in the Heart described as “the best shop in Peterborough” and recently featured on Anglia News ITV launches its 2013 unique Christmas Collections. Some of our most talented artists and artisans will be offering decorations, paintings, prints, cards, glass, ceramics, textiles and jewellery. In addition there will be confectionary, uniquely blended loose leaf tea, a lovely selection of scented candles, hand-made soaps, unique wrapping paper and much more. Chris Porsz one of our celebrated photographers will also be signing his successful book New England sold at Art in the Heart.

Parking is available at the Haven Car Park which is located in the area at the back of the Bridge Street shops and council buildings, 2 minutes’ walk away. Access is on Bishop’s Road and the exit comes out onto St Peter’s Road which runs parallel to Bridge Street.
Market Deeping based The Fudge Factory will be sponsoring our event. They will have a tasty gift for every ticket holder. The Fudge Factory has already enjoyed 11 years of successful business and is a local and national favourite. Their Chocolate Mint Swirl took a Gold Medal at the Great Taste Awards and the Hot Chilli and Chocolate Fudge won Silver.
Art in the Heart supports the Kidneeds charity in order to help local boy Alex Gibbs from Werrington, Peterborough. He has a rare & incurable kidney disease called Dense Deposit Disease(DDD) and has relied on dialysis treatment. Recently Alex had a kidney transplant which gives him much needed respite but unfortunately this new kidney will most likely not last and Alex will be back on dialysis.
Kidneeds is an international charity which was set up to fund research into finding a cure for DDD, a disease mainly affecting children. The charity is completely non-profit making and is run by volunteers. All associated administration costs are met by a private sponsor, so that 100% of all donations go straight into funding the research. Be assured that any donation you give will go straight to helping Alex and other children with DDD.
There is a charity box in our gallery and shop, 47 Bridge Street Peterborough with more information about the charity, and also a donation station. You can also donate from the Art in the Heart by linking into the Kidneeds page.
Art in the Heart also supports the charity through the sale of good quality mosaic art kits. Alex’s ‘Auntie Tracey’ happens to be the successful mosaic artist, Tracey Cartledge. Tracey in addition to her own fine art pieces, produces a range of mosaic kits so that people can enjoy producing their own work of art. These kits are available to buy in our shop and we donate all profits from these sales to the charity. We also sell bags of sweets.
We are also delighted that Julie Gibbs Alex’s mother, trained primary school teacher joins our sales team every Wednesday on a voluntary basis.