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August 2019
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The Hadleigh Thrift Shop is 20 years old! ‘Helping Us help Hadleigh’ has been The Hadleigh Thrift Shop’s philosophy since it started; 20 years on and this motto is as vibrant as ever. Barbara Boyd and her team would very much like all its supporters, groups and partners to come to the celebratory Birthday Party on Saturday 10th August (10am to 2 pm). This provides an opportunity to share memories of successes over the two decades (and perhaps some of the challenges!). In August 1999, Barbara Boyd (then a newcomer to Hadleigh) opened the Thrift Shop in the High Street and was overwhelmed with how the Town opened its heart to her. Over the years, well over 30 people have been highly committed, valuable volunteers at the shop, which quickly became a hub for meeting and sharing conversations as well as fund-raising for causes important to Hadleigh. With so many organisations supported it is hard to pick out highlights but worth mentioning is the Thrift Shop helping save the Day Centre at Magdalen House and its on-going support. The move of the Shop to the current premises four years ago helped grow the support that both donors and volunteers could make. Barbara says, “Our volunteers are a vital to our work - without them we wouldn’t exist. By the same token we’d be nothing without the donors and customers. Many, many thanks go to this wonderful community of Hadleigh. We have a series of activities over the day to say thank you: Boudicca Border Morris, The Summer Smarties Challenge, Balloon Launch, Face Paints, Cakes, Barbara’s Banter, HFT’s History Photoslide and The infamous Mario Gellatti’s Special Ice-Cream demonstrations”. So, come and join Hadleigh Thrift Shop’s party on 10th August to raise a glass to at least another 20 years of The Thrift Shop.
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