So I'm still here guys, so if you want to come in and do late night shopping, you can.
I'm having a go, done quite well.
I've emptied that one there, so what we might do is put the dearer ones on there, and then I don't know where the 350s are gonna go.
So there's a couple of girls bitching about us online, about our prices in the shop, and then somebody's underneath saying, oh she's gonna be, she's in the process of being prosecuted.
For what?
Well I'm not a letter, I've had no letter, I've never been arrested, I've been prosecuted for what?
Running a baby bank, giving out food and nappies for free, with the profits.
Because only a charity you have to justify where the money's going.
If you're a business you can keep the money yourself.
I could keep the money myself, but I don't.
I give 100% of it back into all we do.
So they were like, where's the money going?
I didn't say that on the postage, you Then it goes on the rents for the shops, for the staff to work in, and for people with learning difficulties and mothers and people with mental health and physical disabilities to come and volunteer to help you, to give up their time for free to help you and provide for your children.
Then it goes on electric, water rates.
The two larger shops they have business rates, but the council kindly helped me fill in the forms to reduce the rates down because we are a non-profit, even though we're not a registered charity, because I don't take a penny of it and we're not doing it for profit.
We raise as much money as we can to put it back into the community.
There's a lot of other bills as well.
We've got to buy first aid kits, we've got to buy our own fire extinguishers, fire blankets, we pay for our stationery, we've got signage, laminating.
My mother's been laminating all weekend, who do you think pays for that?
She don't charge her electric to us, she does that for free.
Jan does the washing, Sammy does the washing, Penny does the washing, Sue does the washing.
Never once have they charged electric to me.
Never once has a volunteer charged us petrol.
And you can't pay £3.49 for a poor patrol figure.
Oh, it's not worth £3.50 though, is it?
It's £1.75 because we're on half price sale only.
So £1.75 for an actual poor patrol figure
that's been cleaned in sterilizing fluid.
I think you need to have a chat with yourself, some of you.
All right, speaking of inflation as well with prices.
Okay, this novel look is 2021 this year, nine quid.
There's also business insurance, public liability insurance, volunteers insurance.
I have to pay insurance as an employer because even though they're volunteers, I still employ them.
What if we need to buy equipment for a member of staff who's disabled and needs a specific thing to sit on, a specific toilet riser, a specific adaptation to help them do their work.
What if we need to spend money on that?
Where do you think that money comes from?
Because all these registered charities get thousands of pounds worth of grants.
We've never had a single grant, not a single grant.
Everything has been done through fundraising.
And you can't pay £1.75 for a poor patrol for your child.
That's shocking that is.
I think that you're complaining about it.
How much would they be brand new?
15 quid for the set.
Taking the mick really, you know.
Don't worry, don't come in our shops, go somewhere else.
I'm sure you might be able to find somewhere cheaper.
But as some of your comments said on your page, no, you won't find it cheaper than that.
Because all the charity shops have had to put up their prices because all the utility bills have gone up.
If you think how much you pay for your electric in the house, you need to triple that if it's a shop.
So whatever you're paying roughly in your three, four bedroom house, triple that.
That's probably a shop.
Plus, standing charges for the electric and the water.
Who do you think pays for that?
Who do you think pays for the heating for the volunteers?
Who do you think pays for the characters that we get out for Easter and Father's Day and Mother's Day and all the rest of it?
And Father Christmas.
And who do you think pays for the toys, the bags that we put the toys in, the selection boxes?
Who do you think pays for that?
We do that for mothers so they don't have to pay £10 to go and see Santa to save you money.
Some people I think are really, really entitled.
And I don't know whether it's an age thing, but it seems to be the younger generation are quite entitled.
It's like as if they've always had everything given to them on a plate for free.
So they just expect everything for free.
One girl said, oh, she's a baby bank.
Well, what's a toy you got to do with a baby bank?
A poor patrol figure.
We are a baby bank, but a toy isn't.
A poor patrol figure isn't for a baby.
A baby is 12 months.
It's really sad to see the amount of jealousy.
