SANTA is helping to turn a £50 grant into a festive fundraiser for a local hospice.
Staff at Ashlyns Farm Shop, in Epping Road, North Weald, have spent their cash from the St Clare Hospice £50 Push challenge on a Christmas grotto.
They have spent hours putting the grotto together and are already fully booked.
Farm manager Laura Stroud said: "We support St Clare Hospice as it is such a honourable cause with so many people affected by cancer close to us.
"The fact it is a local charity means we are able to really see the difference it makes to people in the community.
"We have chosen a Christmas grotto as what could possibly be better than a Father Christmas experience, involving a tractor trailer ride, seeing real-life reindeers and meeting Santa in his wooden lodge with a toasty log burner where he and his elves prepare toys for good children?"
Visitors will be able to enjoy mulled wine, orange juice or mince pies at the Santa pit-stop.
The St Clare Hospice £50 Push challenges businesses to turn the cash into the biggest possible profit within three months.
