A POPULAR Christmas Fayre will be serving up gourmet food to hungry guests when it returns for its 30th year in November.

This year, the Mary Howard Luxury Christmas Fair has teamed up with catering firm, Relish Events to raise cash for Kids Company for 2015, a charity founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh, CBE, which provides emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children.

As part of the fair, which will be held at Hullavington Airfield between November 10 and 13, Relish will be setting up a restaurant, which will offer locally sourced food, a café/bar with gourmet snacks and providing an evening hog roast.

The Mary Howard Christmas Fair was started 30 years ago byThe Honourable Patrick and his wife the Mary who is now deceased. It offers Christmas trees, classical music, a tombola, best stallholder competition.

Mr Howard said: “We’re looking forward to seeing some new and exciting retail partners this year as well as our very loyal and exclusive partners who have been with us many years. ”

Over the years the event has raised £1.5 million for 50 charities and it will be supporting Kids Company for the second year running.

Those wishing to have a meal in the Relish restaurant should book a place by visiting www.relishevent.co.uk or calling 01285 658 444.