It’s a fundraiser.  It’s a traditional Advent Calendar.  It’s a sort of raffle. It’s a totally Kenilworth community activity.  And it’s a bit of fun.

Following last year’s successful introduction of a Kenilworth Advent Calendar, which raised over £13,000 for local causes, Kenilworth Rotary Club has decided to do it again, but this time with bigger prizes and more Calendars. We aim to print 3500 Calendars and, in addition, offer a new, digital version. BUT THE PRICE WILL STAY THE SAME AT £5 EACH.

It’s a project organised and run by The Rotary Club of Kenilworth.  We aim to have some fun and make new friends while raising money for good causes. In addition to this Advent Calendar, we run the Tree of Light in Talisman Square and the 2 Castles Run, but we need more members and helpers to keep going.

If you’ve got some time and would like to get involved, do please contact us at meetus@kenilworthrotaryclub.org.uk We’d love to hear from you.

Like every other Advent Calendar, this one has a picture on the front with 24 doors, one for each day of Advent, from the 1st to the 24th of December.

Behind each door is a list of 5 prizes, each donated by a local business and ranging in value from £20 to £300.

Every Calendar bears a unique number in the top right-hand corner.  Each day in Advent, we’ll reveal 5 of those numbers, drawn at random, which win the prizes for that day.

The first number drawn wins the first prize, the second number wins the second prize and so on.

Selling will start on Monday 23rd October and will stop on Tuesday 28th November.  On any given day, from Monday to Saturday, we’ll be selling from a stall in Talisman Square, or in Sainsburys or in Waitrose between the hours of 10.00am and 4.00pm.

Alternatively, you can buy from:

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• Boothroyds Estate Agents, 19 The Square, Kenilworth CV8 1EF

• The Treehouse Bookshop, 4 The Square, Kenilworth CV8 1EB

• Kenilworth Books, 12 Talisman Square, Kenilworth, CV8 1JB

and other locations to be announced. Or, if you don’t want to carry it home, you can order online on this website and we’ll deliver anywhere within the CV8 postcode for a packing and delivery charge of £1.50.

And finally, if you don’t need the hard copy, you can purchase an e-Calendar from this website which entitles you to the same chance of winning a prize.

Take a look at the Kenilworth Advent Calendar Winning Numbers Page on this website.  At 01:00 a.m. each day during Advent, the door for that day in this picture will be unlocked. Hover over that door and it will open, revealing the prizes for that day and their winning numbers.  Every door up to that date will remain unlocked, so you don’t have to check every day.

In addition, the winning numbers for each day, and all the days up to that date, will be shown on the Kenilworth Nub News www.kenilworth.nub.news and a hard copy will be posted by 10.00 am on the glass-fronted noticeboard in Talisman Square between Costa Coffee and WHSmith.

Contact us at contactus@kenilworthrotary.org.uk  giving your winning number, name and address and in most cases we’ll deliver your prize to your door if you live in the CV8 post-code.

Or, if you prefer to collect it in person, we’ll tell you where and when to go.   In some cases, the prize donor wants to give you your prize personally, in which case we’ll advise you what to do when you contact us.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IN ALL CASES YOU WILL NEED TO PRESENT YOUR CALENDAR BEARING THE WINNING NUMBER BEFORE WE CAN GIVE YOU YOUR PRIZE.