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Active Guernsey car boot attracts bumper crowds

Photo credit: Martyn Foxen

Specsavers car park was overflowing with hundreds of car boot sellers and shoppers at the weekend.

The summer car boot sales, on average, attract around 50 sellers, who donate a small fee for their pitch.

Yesterday (10 August), 116 set up shop in the Specsavers car park, raising more than £800 for Active Guernsey.

Charity President Ray Peacegood says the funds will improve lives.

"We use the money to send people with learning difficulties on holiday.

"Unless we help support them, some of them never get away.

"It gives them a different outlook on things, and you see them change, from going around the island and going to the same bays or cafe every day, it is something different, which we take for granted."

Hundreds of buyers turned up to the event, with multiple car parks filling up and eventually some shoppers being turned away.

Ray says that with the cost of living, people like to find a bargain.

"People sell all sorts of stuff at the car boot, a lot of clothes, vegetables and jams, which are all a lot cheaper than if you went to a shop."

The next Active Guernsey car boot sale at Specsavers will take place on 24 August.

Photo credit: Martyn Foxen

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