Participating businesses have wonderful timber Christmas Tree out the front or close to their front door.

Start collecting your tickets, because the prize draws are now under way.

"We are so pleased to be able to offer $20,000 in prizes this year," Chamber president Marg Duggan said.

"It has been a tough year and as there is no Christmas Carnival the Chamber is delighted to have kept the draws to encourage local shopping."

The draws begin Thursday with the first $500 in Why Leave Town cards coming out of the barrel.

Please make sure that tickets are filled in correctly with your full name, not initials, on the tickets. Tickets need to be placed into the container provided by each store.

There are seven $500 prizes to be drawn out up until Christmas Eve and then 10 X $500, one x $1500, two $2500 and one $5000 which will be drawn out of the truck on December 24.

Participating businesses are: Bernardis, Terry Bros Carpet Court, Blush Organic Beauty, Forbes Small Engines, Gunn's Mensland, SportsPower Forbes, Phillip Wells Optometrist, Brons Hair Design, Turners Furniture One, Life Pharmacy, Chapter Two, Jessica's Essential Beauty, Euphoria Road, Robbs Jewellers, Little Extras, Painted Daisies Gift Shoppe, Allure On Main, Vandenberg Hotel, News On Rankin, Cahills Shoes, Made Of Fridays, The Bakehouse, Agri-West, Forbes Automotive Services, Jelbart Dawson & Co, Hozpots Garden Centre and Walkers Ag N Vet Superbee Honey, C & D Floorcoverings, Flannery's Pharmacy, Loomsey's Fish and Fix, Forbes Betta Home Living, Walkers Ag N Vet Undercover Sleepwear, Acheson's Mitre 10 and Steel Technology.

Thanks extended to Evolution Mining and Forbes Shire Council for their support.