One of the stalls at Frampton Festival on Saturday was Happy Handbag, a local not-for-profit scheme set up to provide a handbag containing ladies personal items to women in time of great hardship and/or homelessness. The majority of handbags donated are given directly to a lady in a crisis situation, through a local service provider or charity.  Some handbags are sold in order to produce funds to fill the other handbags with the hygiene items.

They also run a Happy Bag/Sack scheme, which helps men and women with clothing items, and Happy Home/Bowl, which helps people who have got accommodation after sleeping rough by providing some basic household essentials.

You can donate items at a number of collection points including 53 Frampton End Road, Frampton Cotterell (labelled bin inside the gate, left hand side in front of the shed), Tesco Extra in Yate (ask at Customer Services desk where the bin is as it gets moved around) and Iron Acton Garden Centre.

You can find out more at www.happyhandbag.co.uk