OPENING TIMES
Mon - Wed 9.00am - 6.00pm
Thu - Fri 9.00am - 8.00pm
Sat 9.00am - 6.00pm
Sun
11.00am - 5pm
TLC Finds Room at the Great Western Arcade
Birmingham’s Great Western Arcade is providing temporary shelter for the TLC Lottery’s nativity scene this December to raise funds and awareness of the owner charities the lottery supports – Acorns Children’s Hospice, Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and Focus Birmingham.
Nick Owen, broadcaster and avid supporter of the hospice movement will officially launch the tenure on Tuesday 1 December at 11.30am. He says: “Hospices need our support to do their vital work throughout the year but Christmas is a very special and poignant time because it is all about families being together. I do wish TLC the charity lottery, all the best with their fundraising.”
Blessing the occasion will be the choir of Christ the King Catholic Primary School singing traditional carols while shoppers in the arcade can enjoy the nativity scene kindly loaned by St. Anne’s Catholic Church.
Gay Faulkner, centre manager for the Great Western Arcade, said: “We’re delighted to be providing the TLC charity with a temporary home this Christmas and hope that shoppers visiting the arcade will support this very worthwhile cause.”
Colin Barrett, TLC’s lottery manager, added: “We were invited here last year and in two weeks we raised more than £3,500 which we are hoping to top as we are here for longer and have gone all out on our display. People make a special effort to come and look at our wonderful nativity scene which will be with us until Christmas Eve when it must be returned to the church for its Christmas services.”
The Great Western Arcade specialises in providing an independent and unusual retail offer for Birmingham shoppers. Originally built in 1875, it is located in Birmingham City Centre between Snow Hill Railway Station and the Bullring shopping centre. For more information on the arcade and its retailers visit www.greatwesternarcade.co.uk
