NSPCC

NSPCCDyserth District

Greetings from your friendly volunteers.

Spring has arrived, YIPPEE!!!! and with it a drier period weather wise. Let’s hope so, anyway.

We continue to process vast amounts of your generous donated items, and are continually amazed at how much revenue this generates. Our pricing is sometimes seen as too low, and when visiting other charity shops around the country it is easy to understand that argument. However, we have found that providing good quality “pre-loved” goods at sensible prices, ensures a solid loyal customer base, a very good income stream for the NSPCC, plus we are maximising the re-cycling effort. So it’s win all round!

Talking of re-cycling, as from April, the Welsh Government are to implement a policy requiring all businesses to separate their waste – similar to what we do domestically. This means we now have three bins instead of just one with an associated increase in our costs. It is important that we do all we can to minimise what we put into land-fill, and although it costs us, we will do our bit. However you can help us by only donating what you believe is saleable. This of course excludes, textiles, shoes and handbags which we can sell on to a company. Thank you for your understanding.

While you’re reading this, our treasurer will be beavering away generating our yearend accounts and wondering what our turnover has been this last year. Will it be another record? Undoubtedly, but how great? Watch this space.

We continue to be astounded by the generosity of those that donate, those that purchase and those that work so hard at the shop week in week out. Truly wonderful.

Thank you everyone.

The NSPCC Volunteers xxx