Three cheers to The Swan in Walton on Thames a beautiful riverside pub who decided to see if they could get their customers to do shoeboxes and managed a staggering 126 in the first year. We will pop in for a refreshment and say thank you personally, if you are around the Walton area why not give them a try?
Three cheers to Le Boat located in Surbiton who did 74 shoeboxes. Le Boat is a company who rent out canal boats so if you fancy trip down the river, look them up too.
Overall we have lots of different people visiting our warehouse. Today Vera came. Vera as you may know was our treasurer in the past and still loves to come and lend a hand at the warehouse. She knits during the year and makes crafts to go into the shoeboxes too, that is in between celebrating her 90th birthday, holidays and a cruise this year.Two V.I.P.s dropped into see us today too. Chris Roberts the South of England Cluster Manager from OCC came along with Greg who currently is Acting Director. They were really encouraging and praised everyone for the work, organisation, dedication , particularly since we have been handling more shoeboxes than usual.
School visits. So far we have had Eggars School, St Hilary's School, Aldro School and Cranleigh School. They love doing shoeboxes as well as coming to the warehouse. It's a wonderful thing to see young people be so inspired to be kind, giving and generous. We see this as growing talent for the future of OCC.
Cranleigh School, "Thanks for over 200 shoeboxes" and among them were these beautiful boxes ... all four of them
St Hilary's School, thank you for all your boxes too
And as always we have some beautiful knitted hats and crafts, far too many to show them all but just look at these two photos as and example.
Small cuddly toys in a knitted bag, thank you everyone for all you do.
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