A GIANT indoor charity market will be enticing shoppers this weekend.

Petersfield Festival Hall will host the event on Saturday and there will be more than 70 stalls.

The traditional family-run event returns to the hall in the run-up to?Christmas and it promises a bumper market to benefit a host of local charities.

Money raised will go towards a variety of causes including the Portsmouth Hospitals £2.4m Rocky appeal for the Da Vinci digital keyhole surgery Robot.

The technology is already in place and in use to the benefit of patients, but the remainder of the fund is needed to finish paying for the machine at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.

Other charities will also be running fundraising stalls, including The Rosemary?Foundation which supports hospice at home nurses to carry out palliative care, and the Petersfield Music?Festival.

Petersfield Diabetes UK has a tombola and gift stall in the Rose Room. There are also a number of animal welfare charities that will be getting involved.

Traders and craftspeople from across the area will be supporting the event with collectables, bric-a-brac, toys, greetings cards and silver jewellery.

Christmas gifts, cakes, mince pies and home made marmalade will also be on sale together with handbags, games, knitted dolls clothes and books.

New this year will be a stall specialising in framed postage stamps and a double stall selling quilts, purses and aprons.

An artist will have prints, cards and calendars for sale in the main hall and The Curiosity Shop from The Folly Market is setting up a table of collectables and crafts.

The Petersfield Historical Society is represented and there will be local history books, DVDs and other publications available to buy.

A raffle for the Rocky Appeal will be held in the foyer and refreshments will be served in the Rose Room.

Admission to the market is free and it is open from 9.30am until 3pm.

The Rocky Appeal still needs to raise a further £275,000 to reach its target.

The equipment is already being used during more than 150 operations a year.