Monday 26th and we have topped 10,000 shoeboxes

Well done everyone, that includes the volunteers who turn up during the day, the drivers, those who donate shoeboxes and those who make crafts and collect different items throughout the year. After a record Friday we had another brilliant day of boxes coming into the warehouse.

It has made a huge difference to our numbers having Ellie and Steve back doing their rounds. In the last few days they have been collecting approximately 500 boxes a day. If you ever need to know how to pack a car or anything else for that matter Steve is "the man to ask".

It takes all sorts of different jobs to ensure the warehouse runs smoothly, as you can see tea and coffee is vital to keep the troops going.

Look at what someone has done in their haste to have a cup of tea? Put their glasses down and into a shoebox. They are not on their way to Kyrgyzstan, we rescued them!

Anyway back to tea, here is Wendy and Barbara, who look like they are putting out a fire, in fact they are ensuring we all get our tea and coffee and that the cups are washed up afterwards.

No need to dial 999.

Ted had an outing with Maureen last week when he went to Ash Grange Primary and Children's Centre and managed to acquire a tie How smart is he? He also loved to pose with all the pupils there. What a star he is turning out to be.










In addition all the 100 names for Ted have gone, that is fantastic and it means £100 donated towards the transportation of the shoeboxes. With a week still to go, another Ted, kindly donated by the people of Chiddingfold, appeared just at the right time. So we thought we could run another name game with Russian names, so please have a go see if we can raise another £50.

Same rules apply, you don't get the teddy but you do get to have picked the name of the teddy that goes to Kyrgyzstan. Now Jenny has to carry two, we are sure she can manage.


Lots of visitors in today...... firstly from Hatch Ride School in Crowthorne who were in this morning, they all loved looking around, meeting people and seeing how the warehouse operates. We got them working too! They unloaded two vehicles and checked lots of boxes too. I think we worked them hard as they ate all the cake and biscuits we put out from them! Brilliant job done and thanks for all the boxes. Hatch Ride School did more boxes this year than last ..... nearly 100!!!

Then, later on this afternoon, we had a group from St Hilary's School in Godalming. Not only did they bring in their boxes (over 100) they unloaded them and had made some awesome crafts too. Then of course, after a tour of the work areas, we got them to work after which they had juice and snacks. However, helping with the shoeboxes did not seem a very hard task, in fact we had to almost drag them away. It was great to see them and as usual, as with all our guests, they left happy, fulfilled and inspired to go and do more shoeboxes in the coming years.

Thirdly, we had The Farnham Assist Knit and Natter group, again they absolutely loved their visit as much as  they had in previous years. Like everyone else who comes to the warehouse, you always want to come back and never get fed up of seeing all the brightly filled boxes, bursting with love and joy all bound for children in critical need. Who couldn't love that?