Hillmount, Northern Ireland’s leading family-owned garden lifestyle centre, has handed over a blooming marvellous donation of £3,306.92 to Cancer Fund for Children.

Throughout December, families visiting Hillmount’s Santa’s Grotto in Bangor, Belfast and Carrick, generously contributed to the collection, helping to raise vital funds to support local children and young people impacted by cancer.

The total includes additional contributions made directly by Hillmount, reflecting the Mercer family’s continued commitment to supporting local charities.

Speaking about the donation, Robin Mercer of Hillmount said: “It’s extremely important as a family that we support local charities throughout the year and at Christmas we decided to return our efforts into supporting Cancer Fund for Children, following a number of years supporting a variety of other charities in December.

“We are very grateful to our customers who generously donated during their visits to Santa’s Grotto in Hillmount Bangor, Belfast and Carrick, as their donations enabled us to grow our own personal donation.”

Elaine Bullock, Partnership & Philanthropy Executive at Cancer Fund for Children, said: “We were so pleased to be Hillmount's chosen charity partner at Christmas as proceeds raised from Santa's Grotto will help us continue to ensure no child faces cancer alone."

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