Good morning, guys.

I'm on my way to Riska Roo.

Pontipool isn't open till 12 today.

12 till 6, they're doing.

Blackwood is already opening on 75% off.

I just picked up a car phone call from my mother.

And she was like, are you a charity?

I said, no, I'm not a charity.

I said, we are a registered baby bank and a registered food bank.

And we are governed under the councils and we are governed under the financial fund.

So she was like, oh, right, yeah, brilliant.

She said, I wish I was something like this when I had my children when I was younger.

I really struggled.

And I said, yeah, this is what we found, you know.

And we found that they were coming of old.

After 300 yards, leave the roundabout at the first exit and continue to follow the A48.

So this is why we started the five item food top up back, you know.

Top up shop.

And it's free.

I said, not like these other pancreas that charge for it.

It's free.

Well, we've gone up on three items or one item, weren't it?

One item, three items, two, five items.

We want to get it up to ten, guys, right?

Stop giving your donations.

I'm talking to supermarkets now and businesses and people who put food out for ten on the wall collections, right?

Stop giving it to these registered charities that are charging for it.

The churches that charge for it.

We give ours away for free.

We help people.

If they've never been to us before, they never bought anything and they never donated.

And they come in and they say, you're my last resort.

And we say, oh, right.

Well, this is what we do.

We ask our mothers to be a customer, to support other mothers or bring in donations to be other mothers, you know.

Or you could put a donation in the box.

What do you need out with today?

And we just give them whatever they need out.

And then the following time they come in, they'll probably come in shopping.

And then they'll probably bring in donations as well.

And that's how the cycle starts.

And then everybody is helping everybody in life.

So I, you know, please, please, like this mother thought it was a brilliant idea.

She's never had to use a food bank, but she has been in a situation where she was unwell with mental health and couldn't tell anybody, couldn't seek help.

Because she was afraid of social services knocking the door.

And as I said to her, we don't report anybody to social services.

Even though I fully qualified to, I don't because I need my mothers to confide in me.

I need my mothers to come and ask for help for me.

And when I did my training, because you do four to six weeks with the health visiting team as part of your nursing.

You have to, you have to do those hours, you know.

And I went out with the health visitors and I had an older health visitor with common sense, you know.

And I said to her something about there was benefit fraud going on in the house.

And they alluded to this, you know.

And I said to her when we were in the car, having a debrief, would you report that then to social services?

She said, no, that's not for me to do.

She said, I need my mothers to trust me and to come to me with their problems and their concerns.

That's social services job, to intervene with anything else, let them do that.

We need our mothers to trust us.

And that's the best advice I've ever taken away from my training.

Because yes, they need to be able to come to somebody that won't put up with social services.

Know that social services are corrupt.

I actually refused to do my week's training with social services during my nursing training.

Because I didn't want anything to do with that.

Because I know what they're like.

They pick on the wrong people.

If social services were perfect and didn't have all these child deaths throughout the UK, then I wouldn't say anything.

But they're not.

They're clearly not perfect, are they?

So, like I said, I implore you to stop giving your food to Tin on the Wall collections.

Stop putting them in the baskets behind the checkout.

For the pantry that charges £5, £6 a basket.

Not even a bag.

Not even a bag, no.

It's a basket.

They've worked it out for this cubic square foot of a basket.

Although they can get a charge at the maximum for the least amount of food.

It's not even a carry a bag for.

Like the other ones.

I implore you to think who you donate to.

You don't have to give it to us.

But give it to somebody you know is giving it out for free.

Remember that church in Astrod?

Charged the mother £18 for the food banks.

From all the food that was donated from Astrod Tescos.

Astrod Tescos were disgusted.

They said they could have had it cheaper on yellow stickers.

That's a church.

Follow the road for three quarters of a mile.

Be mindful who you donate to, guys.

Do your due diligence and actually research which charities you're giving them to.

