The Trimdon Treasures charity shop opened for business in Front Street, Trimdon Colliery following months of hard work by fundraisers.

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VOLUNTEERS are hoping to plough vital funds back into their community with cash raised from a new charity shop that began trading at the weekend. The Trimdon Treasures charity shop opened for business in Front Street, Trimdon Colliery following months of hard work by fundraisers. Victoria Tiffin, Pamela Duddin, Christine Coomber, Leanne Sayers and Carol Rooney launched the shop which hopes to help families through the credit crunch, while ploughing profits back into local worthy causes in the Trimdons. The opening of the community shop comes after a number of fundraising events including a family funday, which raised £810, a coffee morning, which raked in £449 and discos which boosted coffers by £300. Volunteers also raised £500 by staging two walk on water events at Hartlepool Marina, and £1,000 by launching a Trimdon Treasures community magazine to help towards running costs. Mum-of-three Victoria said: "We had a really good opening day. We raised £124 on the day through sales." Victoria, 30, said the group would continue to raise funds for the shop and volunteers would also be applying for grant funding from sources such as the National Lottery.