So Susan's just popped in.
Susan's one of our oldest followers slash volunteers.
She usually works, does stuff from home.
It's easier for her to do stuff from home.
She's brought in a pile of stuff, so she's washed all of them for us.
So now, I don't know, I'm not saying every charity does this, but most charities would have been this lot, right?
And we've got, I don't know what brand that is, Primark.
Right, isn't it?
So that would be like £2, £4, £6.
That's about £8 we've saved there, and we've stopped that going to Lanny's.
Yeah, that's the biggie, right?
Because that's what we want to do.
And she's brought in some food for the food bank too.
And then she washed this jacket.
We'll get a bit for this because I think it's a brave soul, so we might get £10 to £15 for that.
There were some other things she did as well.
She cleaned up this.
So I want to just, I'm sure we're doing the video so you can see how much restoration we're putting into things.
You know, it's still got life left in it.
You know, we don't want to chuck it.
Even if somebody brings it up and we say, oh, we can have that one for free.
Somebody's re-owned it, haven't they?
So she's washed this.
This will go.
Definitely this will go.
But the sleeve is broke.
So this would have been a £2 one anyway.
Would have gone in our £2 section.
But it's broke.
So my mother now will run that on the sewing machine.
And then my father's better at doing the leather.
But she's cleaned these up a treat, but they've gone there.
So they'll have a look and see if they can get that leather done as well.
So this is this, you know, because they're nice.
I don't know how much they would have been when they first come out.
We might get a pound from, you know, as a pound goes in the kitty, doesn't it?
You know, for everything that we do.
And we've restored them.
And that's the best part, isn't it?
Because number one, that ticks boxes for restoration grants and preventing landfill grants, which is brilliant.
But it's just for you to see how much work goes into it.
It's not just starting a shop, starting a baby bank and selling stuff.
That's not what it's about, is it?
It's about the effort that goes into all of this and the work that goes into it.
And I mean, this isn't me, right?
This is what I want.
And this is what my team are doing.
You know, I'd like to sit here on the sewing machine repairing stuff all day, but I haven't got the time.
You know, and I'd probably end up arguing with the sewing machine.
But, you know, it's good that we've got volunteers out there that are passionate about recycling and restoring.
We've actually gone now from just recycling, tons and tons of stuff.
We'll have to work it out, how much we've done.
You know, I'm stopping it going to landfill.
But we're actually restoring stuff now on a bigger scale than what we were before.
My father's got a pile of electricals to have a look at down there.
It might be that we don't sell them to the public, you know.
It might be that we give them to volunteers, you know, for parts or whatever, you know.
But yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
If my mother can sew that now, that'll go in the two pound box.
Pound if it's half price week.
And I'm sure somebody will love that.
It's come up a treat, haven't it?
It's beautiful.
It's like an overthrow for the beach, it is.
I'm sure somebody will have that.
It's lovely.
You can feel it.
It's nice.
And I'm sure somebody will have their gloves.
I wonder how much these were new.
I think they came from the shipping container.
So it just goes to show, doesn't it?
The first shipping container.
The first of many.
It just goes to show the amount of work that everybody is committing to.
And how much restoration they're committing to as well.
And having this being able, you know, and thank you to our followers, right?
Because it's you guys that help us do this on the scale that we do it, okay?
There is nobody else doing this on the scale that we do it, right?
Nobody.
Because the other charge is just, you know, the big massive charge is chuck half of it away.
You know that, or they can't close it.
So, you know, we're lucky enough to have the followers to now have this place where we can sort things out.
Where we can sit down and say, can we restore these items?
And that is, by doing that, that has helped us increase our restoration rate as well of items.
Because we're like, well, we've got those teddies we're going to wash.
You just took a bag of teddies home.
You know, so we've got time to do that now.
We've got time to wait.
Whereas we wouldn't have time to do that in the shops, would we?
Because we'd have to either get rid of them quick, get rid of them by the bag.
But we can go through them now.
Any that needs sponging down because they've got batteries, Jan will do that.
Susan's taken two bags home to wash in the washing machine.
You know, and any that needs sewing, we can sew.
Oh, I've got a walker in.
Somebody asked for a walker.
So yeah, you know, this is the thing.
Thank you to everybody because we've now got somewhere that we can put items until we're ready or we've got the time to actually spend on them.
And look at them and think, well, can we get this working?
Can we find the leads?
Is this still feasible to get the inks?
We've probably got the inks over there, but they need cleaning up.
Can we get it up and running?
So that's lovely because this year we've taken on an extra role of increased restoration projects.
There's a bag with a couple of tellies in it.
I think my dad's going to have a look at it down below.
Unless Dan took them over, he might have taken them over.
And then we've got that gold post, so my dad's going to make a corner piece of it.
You know, whereas previously it would have gone in the landfill because we wouldn't have had the time, the space to do the work.
So thank you to everybody for supporting us.
It goes a long way, you know.
When you spend a couple of quid with us, it goes a long way, doesn't it?
Don't just help mothers in the community and other people.
It helps a lot of our volunteers.
You know, I've got mental health problems.
I've got learning difficulties.
Autism brings everybody together, doesn't it?
It gives everybody a purpose.
So thank you for that, you know.
And like I said, it gives the mothers flexi-volunteering.
You say you want to come in for two hours and flexi-volunteer?
They can, you know.
And that's what we want to do because some of them can't come in every Tuesday.
Some volunteers can come in every Tuesday or Thursday, like clockwork.
Others can't, you know.
It allows us to buy things like the litter picking kits for mothers with young children who can't commit to any volunteering.
They go and litter pick.
You know, it all helps and it brings everybody together.
So...
Thank you to everybody for that.
I love that angel.
I can't believe she's still here.
If that was in black, I think it would have gone.
I think people can't see her because she's behind the corner.
I think she'd be gone.
If people see now when they come in...
They've got two boxes here.
I don't even know where they come from.
I've no idea where they've come from.
Lovely stuff in them.
So we've got a few people out and about looking this morning.
That's the pram I got.
I think there's one in black, but it's...
It looks like that, but it isn't.
It's not an eye candy.
I think it's a cheaper brand.
And it's black.
So with that option you can either have pink or blue.
Don't have to take the blue one if you don't want to.
So yeah, all those jigsaws have been saved because they've all been checked.
All those games have been saved.
All your CDs have been saved.
Looks like they don't have a bag with her now.
