I've just seen a tweet on Twitter from this local business (ie local to me on the south coast who are looking for a pile of knitted Christmas decorations, which they intend to give away with orders leading up to Christmas.
And taking this further ... their regular stock is hand knitted by Grans around the country, should anyone be interested in producing items for them
www.sweetheartknits.co.uk/index.htm
Iceland to offer over 60's a ten per cent discount
just a minimum £20 per week that is all