Right.
So, the wall is up.
We're getting there bit by bit, aren't we?
So, customers will come in.
The counter will be here.
Donations, wade, tract, etc.
Ones ready to be picked up are out here.
We're going to have the staff area by here.
Sink, kitchenette, sofa.
We're going to have the sorting tables by there.
Donations will be sorted by here.
And then there's going to be a chain across there.
And then there's no access to this part.
This is the warehouse part.
And there will be no access to staff unless you've done warehouse training.
As you can see, warehouse health and safety is quite complex compared to just shop health and safety.
So, you won't be able to go up this end.
So, when we have volunteers here initially, they will be meet and greet, explain to the customers how the system works, tell them about the other shops, take the donations off, weigh them, put them here for sorting.
Anything beyond this point, nobody is going to be entering, okay?
Because we're talking hard hat area then, okay?
This is what environmental health would be expecting, is hard hats in this area.
They're probably sat there thinking, well, they've come a long way.
I don't know if they know what they're doing.
There's the wall.
So, that's where I'm going to paint it, Paul.
I think we're going to go with fruit and veg because it's food bank.
We'll go with fruit and veg.
Waste of your talent, Paul.
But there we are.
I'm sure you'll make it look spectacular.
I've seen a nice one like pumpkins and things growing.
So, we'll have that type of feeling there.
That I'm going to have on the counter with bits and bobs in.
And then I can hang up the boutique stuff you have ready to go.
And if so and so says, well, jackets are selling better in my shop and dresses are selling better in mine, it's easy for them to come and pick up, isn't it?
I might put a curtain across there.
But yeah, we're filling up already with donations, aren't we?
So that's a good day's work at least for two people, eh?
To sort.
But what I don't want to see is people coming in, moving stuff that's already been sorted from one end of the room to the other.
That is my pet peeve.
People coming in, emptying boxes that's already been sorted into another box.
Leaving the label on that box.
Cracks me up.
So that will have a big chain there.
No meddlers.
So we want anybody in there other than authorised staff.
But you'll still be able to come here.
This is why we're going to put the staff here by year.
So you can still have tea, toast, have your dinner.
You know, if there's any... because you can't just sit here waiting for people to turn up with donations.
We might just open up on certain days.
Especially on a day like today, it would be awful because you wouldn't be able to have the roller shutter up.
You have to rely on people coming in through the door.
If the shutter's up, people know we're open.
But of course they don't know if it's like this, unless we have specific days.
We're thinking Thursday, Friday, maybe Saturday, maybe a Sunday if we can get people to work.
Because I suppose when people sort of at the end of the week, when they're tidying up on the weekends and things and having a big sort out in there.
I mean, we take donations all through the week in the shops.
But what we're going to try and do now is to get everybody, especially baby equipment.
And we will turn you away.
There will be a sign outside saying, anything dirty, you're going to be turned away with it.
Yeah, so all this wood's recycled from Risca.
We took all that out.
But we've learned a lot of lessons from Risca and I think that's why we get so much support from the Council of Environmental Health because we learn the lessons straight away, don't we?
We learn what works and what doesn't.
Public, nice and safe.
Volunteers, nice and safe.
And then that isn't accessible to the public.
And everyday volunteers without a hard hat and specific training.
And I think that they will like that.
I think they were quite impressed that we had this unit.
They were like, oh, we can't find you.
I said, no, it's a new building.
So I think they're going to be quite impressed with how we've started as we mean to go on.
And I mean, this is what they wanted down Risca but we just couldn't do it down Risca.
We were just too busy.
I can't believe how much time I've got on my hands now.
Since we give up Big Risca, I've got to be honest, it was an absolute nightmare that place was, wasn't it?
Looking back, I mean, I work with anything.
I'm humble enough.
I don't need something that's brand spanking new, right?
I'm humble enough.
If you give me a shave, I'd be like, thank you very much.
I'd like a nice shave.
Right, honestly, thank you to Roy for coming, helping Dan get this up today.
Because obviously it's got to be safe, you know, as well.
Because buildings will want to come out and they'll say, yep, the landlord will be happy without permission to do it before we started.
And this is, I think this was the idea they wanted down Risca, but we couldn't do it, could we?
Because we were just, it was just the logistics were all wrong.
But as soon as I come in here, that's what I knew I wanted to do.
Straight away.
It wasn't big enough for us, but we could still start as we meant to go on, safely.
And that's what we want to do, isn't it?
Yeah, so we're going to get a little, get a kitchenette from Risca, get a sink plumbed in from Abba Bargood.
It's like a big jigsaw.
Get that there.
Get the little sink there.
You can have there, got a little table and chairs there to eat your food on, which would be nice, because we've never had that anyway.
And then this area will be the sorting tables and my office, because I've got my chair.
Nobody sit on my chair or altar, so I'll kill them.
Yeah, so it was good.
It was light right up until about four o'clock, I think.
They had to put the lights on in here.
And that was just with the roller shutter open a bit on a miserable day like today.
And, you know, with the minimal light at the moment.
So I think that's good.
So yeah, here we are.
So bits of wood we've got left over.
I can't sit here.
I wanted the cake stand out there so I could put like stuff on there for you to take.
And you just take it straight off there.
But it's too wide, I think.
It's going to take up a lot of room over there.
So we might just have to shelve that idea for now.
It might be that we use it in here.
We have it next, you know, where this pile of stuff is by here.
What we might do is put it over there.
And then once we price something or research it and it's done, put it on the table
on the cake stand ready to be packed up and
taken off in there.
To another shop.
Right.
Asked me if I was going to call it a night.
I went all the way down the aisle today and then they were like well they were 25 minutes late on my appointment.
I didn't want to push.
You know, because I was sat there thinking I'd be near 25 minutes.
Now if I was 25 minutes late they wouldn't see me.
And then they were like, oh no we can't do your procedure today.
Only a small thing.
And I was like, why am I even here?
You know.
So I've got to go all the way back now.
What a waste of a day.
I mean it wouldn't have been a good day anyway.
In Blackwood because it's tipping down or Risca.
But I could have been here sorting out some other stuff couldn't I?
Oh well.
Right I'm off now guys.
I hope you're liking how it's looking.
And you can see the vision.
Not everybody can see the vision in my head.
But I have got one.
And I think health and safety.
I have sent it health and safety plan.
So they've seen that as well.
It's only a basic line drawing.
But you know.
I've sent it to the landlord as well.
And that'd be fab wouldn't it.
We can sort stuff out.
Maybe get a curtain on there.
Or wherever we sort something out.
