Alright, so morning guys.
I'm in Blackwood shop today.
Daniel's in risk.
Brynmawr is shut this week due to sickness and Pontypool is open.
Don't forget we've got Easter bunnies on Friday.
Don't forget to book in please.
When you come in then give your name to the person who's behind the counter so we can tick it off.
We've got about 100 eggs for each shop and whatever books we go, you know.
So it'll be the books, the ones that we do like 50p or a pound, it'll be them.
So I've unearthed these.
My mum and dad made these a while back and I forgot all about them.
They've been over there they have.
So they've made jewellery to fundraise and they're £5 each.
So I'm just going to show you a couple.
They're all brand new because we had jewellery kits that were donated and I bought extra bits that were all brand new.
So they've never been worn.
I thought I'd just show you a couple.
A bit of a sore throat coming I have.
That's a nice one there, the elephant.
Take these to one of the fundraising things we're going to do.
Now we've got a couple of the skulls with a look of it.
Ying and Yangs.
Oh they're nice, I like them.
Like a Celtic key.
A little feather.
Little butterflies.
So Morrison's little keys there.
Morrison's have authorised us to fundraise as long as they're sat down.
They don't want us walking around.
I think they do their own fundraising.
So that's Bargadon Newport.
So that's good.
So now primarily I'd like to go but obviously I'm quite exhausted if I'm honest.
I really need my managers in now and I really need my volunteers in.
Especially with my knees the way they are.
The GP have said now they're going to do steroid injections because yesterday I couldn't even get back to the car.
What are they?
Fish.
So that's good.
I need people to do car boots.
Now we pay the pitch price.
We pay your petrol as well.
You can take your own stuff and sell it.
So far the first car boot wasn't... I can't remember what's who took.
But it took a lot and we didn't take a lot.
But what we want to do now is we want to be out there with our fundraising buckets.
Sat at the table.
Little bits like this just as a ticker over.
All up matching earrings.
Fundraising.
And then telling people about what we do.
Now I have got... I wonder if I got a bit of chest infection or pneumonia coming because I'm wheezing a bit.
I'm a mess honestly.
A good injection of antibiotics and everything else I think.
A hand sanitizer was good this morning wasn't it?
That's nice.
So yeah these are for fundraising.
They were made for fundraising.
So we had some of the kits were donated.
They're nice.
I discussed about what we do and how we achieve it and why we set ourselves up and why we're there fundraising.
But I can also... we've got other fundraising buckets.
So if somebody else wants to... now you need to be one of our followers.
You can't just rock up on the day and say I want to fundraise because obviously there's a security issue with that.
But you can...
if you're somebody we know or one of our volunteers.
If you just want to a couple of buckets and like a box of stuff like this to sell.
And then we need you to explain what we do and how the food bank system works.
What I'm gonna do is print it off as well.
So you've got lots of visual aids to put on the table as well.
So that when people are walking around you can chat to them and explain to them what we do.
And if they turn around and say oh I read this online say yes yes we have got haters.
But that's because we're really popular and people are really jealous.
I mean look at the injection we've just had now off the councils.
Anybody else have that?
I haven't seen anybody else say about it have they?
So you can see where the jealousy comes in.
So there's quite a few in there.
But you could take like the collection bucket.
I have these on the table.
It's a fundraiser as well.
And see what you get isn't it?
You know because the tables are about five pound I think.
And have a nice tablecloth on there and the laminated sheets.
So let me know guys if any of our current volunteers or people who we've known for a long time want to do fundraising at car boots.
Or if you want to do a car boot press.
Thanks guys.
