A popular home furnishing retailer has confirmed it will open a new store at an Oxfordshire shopping centre, just in time for Christmas.

Dunelm has announced it will be opening the doors to a brand-new Didcot store on December 19.

The new store will be situated at the Orchard Centre and provide 35 new jobs.

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It was also recently confirmed that KFC will also open a new restaurant in the shopping centre this year.

A brochure published by the Orchard Centre shows Dunelm will move into the unit in between Currys and New Look.

Karlie Lowe, the Store Manager at Didcot Dunelm, added: “We’re so excited to be opening our new Dunelm Didcot store. 

“We will be recruiting colleagues to join our team over the coming weeks which will be advertised via the Dunelm Careers website.

“We will then be working incredibly hard over the next couple of months to get everything set up and ready and we can’t wait to welcome the local community into our amazing new home!”

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The Didcot store will be looking for a local cause to partner up with as part of Dunelm’s ongoing commitment to support communities.

Previous initiatives include revamping hospitals and care homes, as well as Dunelm’s Delivering Joy Christmas campaign, which has just launched for a fourth year.

The initiative sees customers donate gifts to local communities and people in need throughout the UK.

Dunelm was founded in 1979 as a Leicester market stall business selling ready-made curtains and has been making made-to-measure curtains and blinds in Leicestershire for more than 20 years.

Since opening the first Dunelm store in 1984, the company has expanded across the country making it the UK’s largest homewares retailer with 180 stores nationwide.

Dunelm currently has stores in Oxford and Banbury.