Look After the Pennies Penny Person

…… and the pounds will look after themselves. We are familiar with some sayings which include the word Penny.
Spend a penny, pennies from Heaven, Penny Lane, penny for your thoughts and of course Penny Rickman, Penny is one of our admin people, she ensures the signing on sheets are always there as well  as the registration forms. Then she gathers all these up and puts them into alphabetical order for us, this is whilst also doing training, she is a bundle of energy and a great member of the team.

Penny is writing out a thank you certificate for Holy Trinity Church of Lyne and Longcross.



And have you heard of Penny Person? This is a unique way Fairland's Junior School used to raise  money for their shoeboxes. A pupil lies on the floor, they draw around them and fill the outline with pennies….. very clever!!

This is the first year they have done shoeboxes and turned it into a fun and enjoyable experience.













More of The Team
Behind the scenes are our treasurers, our unsung heros. All throughout the day we collect the money from each table that you have extracted from the boxes. This gets collected at the end of each day by Sue and Colin who then go and count all the day's donations. It is a mammoth task as on the busy days it has been over £3,000. When you think much of this is coins you will then realise how long it takes. They do have some support from Sue Edgington  too who is the deputy.  

Far Away but Still in our Hearts
Yes, a familiar face from New Zealand, Carolyn emailed us to say she is enjoying the blog, having a good time away, she sends her love to everyone and she says she is missing us, we miss her too. 

The Mayor's Visit
Whilst things have quietened down a little this week after the collections peak last week, we still will be working this week but we may have to reduce the hours a little with the exception of Wednesday…. we have our container arriving at 10am which will need to be loaded and the Mayor's visit at 3 o'clock so a busy day.
Please don't park that day in the enclosed car park right behind the building as a large vehicle will need to get in. There is plenty of parking outside of the enclosed car park near the other units. We are able to park all the way along the wire fence. 

Tomorrow
We have some boxes on hand which we have kept over from today, so anyone arriving tomorrow morning will have boxes to check. We will have some more collections arriving later in the day though it is likely we will finish early again tomorrow. Have a rest in preparation for the container coming on Wed!