CHARITY shop customers were queueing outside to visit a jumble sale in Helensburgh’s Oxfam store.

The event raised more than £310 and people had begun attending at the Colquhoun Square store 30 minutes before it opened.

The tombola was run by Lucie, one of the newest volunteers in the shop, and raised £100 of the total amount, which will be donated to Oxfam’s Unwrapped project to help poverty in the UK.

Graham Newport, the store manager, said: “We have done a number of outside events to try and get involved with the local community. In the past we’ve done art auctions but this is the first jumble sale we have done.

“It was such a success and lots of people want us to do it again but of course, it’s when we manage to get stock for it.”

He added: “There was about 40 people queued up outside the door from around 10.30am waiting.

“There’s got to have been at least 40 people waiting outside and about 40 minutes after we opened it was still busy and before then you could walk across peoples’ shoulders.”

Following the success of the event the shop plans to host another sale in eight weeks.