WE ARE PIONEERS......

.......Well we feel like it, as we actually reached the wall which, for the past three weeks has been totally covered with shoeboxes.

Well done everybody, there were times when we thought we'd never get to see that wall again.













At lunch we announced the name of the Teddy, this year it is Henry, Megan, Leo and Stephen will be taking him out to Romania. Good luck Stephen in finding the right home for Henry.

Congratulations to Jill Bond who guessed the correct first name, Henry; to Cath Way who guessed Megan and to Gemma Leech who guessed Leo.

...and that beautiful cake Lynne made. Peggy from Surbiton guessed correctly 14lbs or 6.35kg and this helped raise over £50 and with the sales table and Henry the grand total is in excess of £700.00 so we are able to make up plenty of our own shoeboxes.

Our youngest volunteer Poppy came in with her shoebox, she has been coming to the warehouse and has done a box for three years and she is three years old, so has been doing it all her life! Poppy wrapped the box and chose the gifts to go in it. Actually Poppy is now NOT the youngest volunteer, she has given up this title to her little sister Tilly 7 months.



99.9% of our shoeboxes have either been brought in or collected now, hence we actually reached the wall!! Michael and Malcolm collected from the Weybridge area today, Penny brought her schools boxes in and we had a delivery of 750 from the London area plus a few others. So don't desert us yet..... there is still plenty to do.







Our last collection was received late today from Kelly who had driven quite a way to find us. She brought in three shoeboxes beautifully wrapped. Her son Alex who is 8 had done a presentation at his school and Kelly, Alex and Oliver, who is 5 recently found out about OCC saw a video and decided to make shoeboxes. Thank you very much and we hope to see you next year at the warehouse.




STOP PRESS!!!!
Our last load, which leaves on Thursday is going to Romania. Stephen and Dee will be delighted as they will be leaving on their distribution trip on 15th of this month to Romania.