Lazy River Estate's annual June long weekend winter pop-up markets will be held online this year for the first time.
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Estate owner Pamela Scott said they were offering the service free of charge to help local businesses in dire times.
"We wanted to keep the markets live despite dire circumstances caused by COVID-19 and help ensure that our local businesses can come out of this on top," Mrs Scott said.
"We wanted to give our local businesses a platform to promote their stock.
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Mrs Scott said there had been a fantastic response so far with more than 60 businesses signed up to participate in the event.
"Some of these include our regular businesses that attended our markets. We hold two markets a year, our winter pop-up markets and our Christmas markets," she said.
"Two of our staff members have been working on the organisation of the markets since COVID-19 began and we've made sure to make the process as easy as possible for those who may not be quite so tech-savvy.
"It's been quite a labour-intensive process but we wanted to do our bit to help keep the markets alive."
The owner said she hoped the community would support local businesses by joining in the festivities.
Lazy River Estate has created a market page on its website which will be accessible to the general public.
The markets run online this Saturday for an extended period of time, from 9am to 9pm.
"We wanted to extend the time to cater towards as many people as we could," Mrs Scott said.
People will be able to access a multitude of local businesses through the Lazy River Estate market page.
The page will provide direct access to the businesses website and the shopper can then explore their options.
An array of stock will be available from candles and clothes to coffee beans, jewellery and fresh produce.
Each participating store has also been asked to provide a market day sale which will be promoted across their websites and other media pages.
Shoppers will also go into the draw to win a big hamper stocked with donations from some of the participating stores simply by making a purchase.
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