Welcome to the Godalming Nub News Virtual Christmas Market!

All our glorious local independent shops have been allowed to reopen their doors to customers today, with the festive season about to get into full swing. Please do visit our superb shopping centres in the High Street, Farncombe Street and St John's Street, Church Street and Bridge Street, Queen Street and Wharf Street, as well as stores in other locations across our town. With their imaginatively decorated windows, beautiful displays and fantastic personal service, you will enjoy a memorable festive shopping experience. And you'll be helping our local economy too. Waverley and Godalming councils, and the shopkeepers themselves, have made great efforts to make Christmas shopping this year as safe and relaxed as possible. But there are still some people who are apprehensive about returning to the High Street in person, and those who would prefer to stay at home and do their shopping online. Our Virtual Christmas Market gives you the opportunity to have a peek into some of our local shops, and order items online or over the phone. Some businesses are offering deliveries, others click and collect. We also have virtual stalls from local online retailers for you to 'browse', all offering a great range of items to choose from. We'll be updating our marketplace each day until December 24th, so do keep checking back. Happy shopping!

The Art of Curry have brought back their famous cooking sauces - in a gift hamper!

These four sauce gift sets, with beautiful Indian lamps, handmade spice bags and soothing chai make a wonderful Christmas present, and can be ordered to be delivered anywhere in the UK.

They are fresh, chilled sauces, and so orders will be cooked and despatched as close to Christmas as possible.

Please visit the website to place your order as there is a limited number of these available to order by 18th December. The Art of Curry's online cookery masterclass course will commence in January 2021, so now is the perfect time to get a gift voucher for your loved ones for Christmas.

These consist of 12 hour-long lessons covering everything from starters to main courses to snacks and rice. They will be available to access all year round after the live or recorded lessons are held every week.

Available on the website - click on the Online Gift Voucher icon on the classes page, or order for yourself!

Visit the website to place your order.

The Godalming Museum shop offers a unique range of Gertrude Jekyll china and Godalming Pepperpot-themed porcelain gifts, as well as local-crested mugs, coasters, tea towels, shoulder bags, notelets and books on Godalming's history.

Staff will be running a stall at The Pepperpot on Thursday December 17th with a wider range of items.

In the meantime, you can order online via the website.

Want to feel glam this festive season? Shine Shrine has just the glittery gifts to make you sparkle.

There are sparkly earrings and keyrings, plus pots of shiny glittery colour in gel form for hair and face. Perfect for festivals, parties - or for when you feel like glamming up.

Website: Shine Shrine

How about cake for that special person in your life? Bakes by Rach sell a variety of custom and bespoke cakes and other bakes. Their buttercream cakes and cupcakes are particularly delicious - and they're beautiful to look at too.

All bakes can be made with personalisation to make them special. They are perfect to send to your family and loved ones to cheer them up, for a present, or for no reason at all - after all, who needs a reason to eat cake?

Order via:

Instagram

Facebook

Want beautiful flowers this Christmas? Look no further than Hayloft Floral.

This Compton-based business offers luxury handmade wreaths, subscription flowers gift vouchers, Christmas posies and other bouquets, as well as festive table and home arrangements made to order. Hayloft Floral can deliver locally to Godalming and the surrounding area, or provide collection.

Order via:

The website: Hayloft Floral.

Facebook.

Instagram.

Imadethiscrafts in Church Street will get you feeling creative this Christmas, with Christmas craft kits, Christmas face masks, Snoze (snood-mask) fabrics and haberdashery, and vouchers for classes.

The shop at 10a Church Street is a treasure trove of inspiration, with craft materials and over 250 types of fabric, and all the bits and pieces you need to indulge your craft passion this Christmas.

The shop is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11.30am to 3.30pm.

You can also visit the imadethiscrafts website.

If you know any tiny people - or their mums or dads - The Tiny Human Hamper Co can help with gift ideas this Christmas.

Owner Holly Battle creates practical hampers and accessories for pregnancy and beyond, and offers some lovely gifts for mums, babies, even dads this Christmas, with free delivery on orders over £50.

Her company was recently awarded Gold in the 2020 Project Baby Awards for 'Best Gifts for Mum'.

Order via the website.

wrapupinstyle, a regular at the Crown Court pop-up market until lockdown, offers stunning patterned wool scarves, shawls, beautiful soft woven coats, cotton kaftans and colourful silk necklaces, hand-made by artisans from The Tabitha Foundation in Cambodia.

The foundation is a sustainable non-profit organisation: all funds are used to help the poorest people in Cambodia through programmes that focus on personal and financial development.

Order via the website. Fancy a tipple? The Garden Cider Company, based in Chiddingfold, will deliver its craft cider and a range of Surrey beers across the area.

Click here to visit the online shop. Cheers!

Sewing 4 Good is a small Rotary Community Group united by its members' love of sewing and trying to do some good in the local community. They have been making scrub bags, hats, sets of scrubs, gowns and masks, and are now focussing on making face coverings to sell and raise some money for local Godalming charities.

The group will be running a pop-up stall in the High Street this Saturday (December 5th). They will be there from 10am to 1pm selling Christmas face coverings and a range of handmade Christmas gifts.

Visit the Facebook page to see what's available and to place an order online. Suggested donation is £5. Lingwood Samuel at 12 Church Street offers an enchanted, magical Christmas in this small independent gallery, with unique hand-made decorations and gifts for everyone.

The gallery is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10am to 4pm, Thursdays to Saturdays 10am to 5pm.

Visit the website here. There are some amazing works of art available in the Prostate Project online art auction, with original works from over 40 Surrey-based artists.

The auction, which runs until Saturday, December 5th, will help raise cash for the charity, whose fundraising efforts have been hard hit by Covid-19.

It features more than 85 pieces of original artwork, from experimental abstract art to still life, from etchings to fine art and rock star photographic portraits - all of which would make great gifts.

To view the works and place a bid, visit the auction website.

The auction closes at 5pm on Saturday, December 5th. All proceeds will go directly to The Prostate Project. Waverley Borough Council has partnered with Click it Local to create a new virtual high street service, that makes it easy to order everything you need from independent shops and businesses across the borough.

The service went live today. You can useClick It Local to buy from local shops and suppliers in one place, then make a single payment and have everything delivered the same day.