I'm still here.
I don't look like I've done anything, but I have.
Trust me, I've pulled all of this out.
Price 10s, Moves 10s.
So anyway, I'm having a bit of a think.
A bit of a think.
What I might have to do is shut off...
I'm thinking of shutting off the playroom here in Pontypool, which is going to be not accepted very well, because people love it.
Possibly the wing room, or maybe a different room.
Temporarily, until I can get a donation centre.
Now, I've been looking every day.
I look every day online anyway for places to go.
I'm messaging our nodes all the time about different things.
I've been looking around Pontypool, because there's empty buildings.
But, do we really want to have a donation centre in Pontypool?
Are we better off having it sort of come brand way?
New in way?
That sort of way?
And then eventually, we could open up the front of that as a shop, like we've done with the one in Pontland Frife as well.
So we get the bigger stuff ticking over from Pontland Frife, rather than having to bring all the jumparoos and cupboards and tables and dining chairs all into the shops.
You can come there and I can pull it on the forecourt for everybody to see.
And then we're in a different area as well.
So, do I?
Because obviously the rents are quite cheap in Pontypool.
So, do I spend four, five hundred pounds here?
Or do I spend a little bit more on a warehouse in Pontypool?
And then we've got two donation centres.
Which in the long run, but we need... I need staff in.
I need good volunteers in.
Volunteers that are ready to move this amount of stock.
It's a lot of stock to sort daily.
I think we're probably averaging maybe a hundred bags a day, maybe averaging.
Like some days it could be left between all the different outlets that we've got for picking up.
And our drop off points, you know, because we've got quite a few drop off points as well.
The time they ring me is usually fifteen to twenty bags that I pick up.
So, you know, if we've had seventy five, so say we've had thirty five bags in this shop, thirty five bags in the other shop.
I might have had ten outside my house and then go and pick up twenty from somebody else.
You can see how quick it amounts up, can't you?
In a day.
So, yes, I'm thinking I might until I can get somewhere because some of these landlords are still not clicking on to the fact that there's no money out there for anybody to pay rent anymore.
And you can see that by what's happening with farm floods, which is dreadful, like all the staff up there now.
Because I think they've tripled the rent and they want a fifteen year lease or something.
I mean, I've only got that off other people.
I don't know, you know, whether that's one hundred percent.
I don't know.
But they don't seem to realize if they don't keep their rents the same or lower them drastically, they're not going to have anybody in their buildings.
So that means they're not going to have, you know, we've contemplated leaving some of our buildings and going elsewhere.
It's only because I struggle, we struggle with the volume of stock.
So really, I can't be downsizing.
I need to be upsizing continually.
We could fill our heads overnight.
We know that.
But yes, I think it's going to take a few more months for them to realize they need to start lowering their rents.
I mean, I found a lovely way.
That's a good way.
That's five and a quick excellent price.
Well, that's ideal.
That's a different area again, which is, you know, people in Merthyr want to access our services.
So I was like, oh, that's brilliant.
That is five hundred.
A little bit of a forecourt out the front.
Lovely, lovely, jubbly sort that out now and be up there over the weekend.
No, no, it's five hundred pounds for the first three months and then it's nearly two grand a month.
It's like wiki wiki.
You know, who do you think is going to pay for that?
Even even these registered charities that get thousands of pounds over grants, they're not getting the grants anymore.
They're not getting it where they used to get like twenty thousand.
They're not getting it anymore.
They're getting like three thousand because the people who do the grants and I've had this offer, you know, a registered charity, you know, reputable registered charity.
They'd rather spread it out among other charities now to help other charities out, which is fair enough.
You know, that's the right thing to do, I suppose.
But it might be there's going to take at least, you know, because until farm food actually goes and then that landlord is like, oh, no, no, no, nobody's rent my building.
Nobody wants my building.
You know, is he going to realize?
Not particularly that.
I'm not particularly looking at that shot.
But what I'm saying is, is our landlord going to realize what he's done?
Probably not until they're gone and they go, bye, we're off now.
So.
It's going to take a couple of months, so it might be that we've got to shut down a room or two.
To store until we get a decent rent on a decent warehouse or a decent building that we can use for the warehouse.
I think.
I don't know.
It depends how cheap this is.
I mean, if it's something you're three for 100, you can't really turn it down if it's big.
If it's big and it's three or four hundred.
Can't really turn it down, can you?
