Keeping you up to date around town

Shop til you drop in Bracknell town centre this Christmas

12/12/07

The entire England Football team, gift-wrapped – the perfect stocking filler!!

Christmas is even better this year in Bracknell town centre with more variety, more choice and great gift ideas. Calendar Club, Card Factory and the Picture Company are just a few of the stores newly opened in the centre to add more choice as you tick the names off your Christmas shopping list! Combined with Bracknell Regeneration Partnership’s fantastic programme of events, which started off with a bang on 22 November at the Lights Switch On, Bracknell is already bucking the trend this Christmas with healthy footfall figures.

The Card Factory is also now open in Charles Square and offers the full spectrum of occasional cards and gift wrapping as well as a great range of festive greeting cards, from humorous and cute to more meaningful and classical designs. Also newly opened in Bracknell for the festive season is Jane’s Famous Brands, a gift and card shop that has a colourful and cheerful range of all sorts of inventive gift-wrapping ideas as well as more ideas to decorate your home.

The Picture Company is now open in Charles Square and stocks a wide range of beautiful and popular art printed on high quality canvas. The specialist store also offers a cost effective and efficient printing service, producing vibrant high quality canvases out of your everyday photographs. A fantastic and affordable gift idea for loved ones, the printing service means you can truly capture the magic of a moment, with a long lasting and stunning piece of art. Canvases can take as little as 24hours to produce. Ask in store for more details and you could be giving your loved one a truly individual present this Christmas.

Calendars make perfect stocking fillers and at the Calendar Club in Princess Square, you will find every imaginable variety and type. Whether you want a smouldering Johnny Depp, the England football team, adorable puppies or Take That through the ages, the Calendar Club stocks it all!

Rob Morris, Retail Manager at Bracknell Regeneration Partnership comments: “Bracknell is a great choice for convenient and hassle-free Christmas shopping and these new retailers offer even more ideas for stocking fillers and gifts for your loved ones. When you are finished shopping, you can even take your gifts to the Charity Gift Wrapping Service at the information kiosk in Princess Square, courtesy of Thames Hospicecare volunteers.

“Christmas in Bracknell is fun, vibrant and very festive. We work hard to make sure there is a fantastic line-up of Christmas entertainment for the whole family and with regular late night shopping available and free car parking after 5pm at Princess Square, we think Bracknell is the obvious shopping choice. This year, we have invested in extra lighting in Charles Square to make late night shopping an even more comfortable experience.

“Shoppers are realising that there is plenty on offer in Bracknell, in a convenient and family-friendly environment and the rise in footfall into the town centre gives an encouraging indication of what to expect this festive season. I want to wish all the retailers in the town centre a very busy and successful Christmas season.”