Following the success of last year's Kenilworth Advent Calendar, which raised over £13,000 for local causes, Kenilworth Rotary Club has announced it will once again run the initiative in 2023.

This year's calendar will feature an "extraordinary" photograph of the Northern Lights with Kenilworth Castle in the foreground taken by local landscape and wildlife photographer Nigel Wilkins.

As with last year, each calendar will have 24 numbered doors - one for each day of advent - with a list of five prize winners behind each door, each corresponding to one of 3,000 calendars sold.

Yet again local businesses have rallied to support the fundraising project, with prizes totalling some £6,000 now up for grabs.

The 120 donations made to Kenilworth Rotary Club include free meals and drinks, cash prizes, family passes to Warwick Castle and jewellery.

Last year the organisation sold 3,000 calendars, and this year hopes to surpass that with 3,500.

All the money will go to Kenilworth causes, including Myton Hospices, The Talisman Theatre, the Waverley Centre, Compassionate Kenilworth and the Kenilworth Centre. 

Winning numbers will be listed daily on the dedicated website, on the Kenilworth Nub News website, on the noticeboard in Talisman Square and on the Rotary club website.

Calendars will go on sale in the middle of October.

The calendar is one of Rotary's fundraising projects, together with the Two Castles Run and the Tree of Light in Talisman Square.

Questions should be sent to [email protected]

"And if you're interested in having some fun by helping us raise money for good causes through this or other projects, do please email us at [email protected] We'd love to hear from you," organisers said.