Day12 - Saturday once again

As Saturday rolled round again, the warehouse continued to be busy with its weekend recruits, both old, young and new. It was lovely to see so many of the weekend volunteers from last Saturday return to give us another day of their time. Especially so, as many arrived bearing gifts of filler items that they knew would be in short supply. One volunteer brought in a bag of handmade bags that were ideal as pencil cases, and a lady from Crawley brought in much needed colouring pencils, soap and almost as importantly some rather nice choccie biccies for coffee time!


We also welcomed a group from Merrow Scouts, both boys and girls who set to work checking and helping out in general.  As can sometimes happen, our supply of unchecked boxes ran dry mid afternoon, but there were plenty of other jobs to keep everyone busy. But never fear! Supplies will be back on Monday as the vans will be out again and have even been out this weekend collecting from various churches. Our job is not over yet!!

The blog has featured several different knitted items over the last few weeks and today's is another variation on a theme. Small knitted purses and bags are ideal to include in the boxes as they easily fit in to small corners and spaces. They are also very versatile and can contain anything from jewelry to crayons, from pencils to tissues, and who's to say what other uses they can have in the child's hands. These brightly coloured knitted bags start life as tissue holders but I'm sure they will have a long life holding many other treasures in the future.




Unfortunately the blog wasn't quick enough to snap a photo of today's volunteer so they will be held over till tomorrow, when normal service resumes again.


Ted, however, was trying his hand at selling the official OCC calendars. Unfortunately he wasn't too successful and possibly should take some tips from Lord Sugar of Apprentice fame to improve his sales technique. Never mind Ted, we can't all be good at everything!!


So please, if you are out and about yourself, this weekend and can spare us a few filler items of hats, soap, pens, pencils etc we would be really grateful!!

See you on Monday!