The late Christmas presents keep coming for local charities following festive events in and around Petersfield.

The Giant Christmas Charity Market in Festival Hall was a record-breaker with £1,875 being raised for the Portsmouth Hospitals Cancer Services Fund.

Good causes like the Petersfield Lions and Royal Marsden Cancer Charity also took record amounts with more than £4,000 being raised altogether for charity.

The money raised for the PHCSF will help patients, staff and provide new equipment with the cheque being recently handed over by organisers Jeremy and Martin Holmes.

They were given a big “thank you” by Portsmouth Hospitals with a special reception welcoming the pair and Jeremy’s 13-year-old son William at the north entrance.

“The money was raised from the profit on stall rents, a raffle, book and bric-a-brac stall, and donations,” said Jeremy.

“These included some from Stroud Evening WI, who ran the market café, and the Lions, who had a fundraising stall.”

Sponsors Chapplins of Liss, The Petersfield Bookshop, Halsa, MRH Removals, Green Globe Solar Ltd, The Queens Head Pub, artist John Starling, Picketts & Pursers and Fez have also been thanked. The Easter Market will take place on April 4, for bookings contact Jeremy on 07798 753836.

The Petersfield Branch of Save the Children UK (SCUK) have also thanked well-wishers for their goodwill as Christmas Jumper Day raised more than £4,000 locally.

Schools in Petersfield, Liphook and nearby villages joined in with pupils donning a Christmas jumper or decoration in return for a small donation to SCUK via the Petersfield branch.

Students at TPS were among those who ditched the uniforms for the day with the branch hailing the “magnificent amount raised by participating schools”.

A spokesperson said: “This was a wonderful example of children helping other children less fortunate than themselves both in the UK and overseas.”