HEALTH, WELLBEING AND COMMUNITY
BUSY FINGERS T
he Staff and Volunteers hope that all our supporters and customers are staying well and safe.
CLOSURE
We apologise for closing the shop on short notice, but we have a duty of care to all our customers, staff and volunteers and even though we were adhering to the safe distance rules, supplying hand sanitisers and continually cleaning surfaces it was proving difficult to continue. We first decided to reduce the opening hours
to just 4 hours per day, in an effort to keep the shop open for our customers, but the employment agencies advised that their clients would no longer be available to volunteer from last week of March, which depleted our workforce. We, therefore, only had our 2 drivers and one volunteer working in the driveway to collect and sort the donations being dropped off. As our drivers had to sometimes enter homes to pick up donations we had to discontinue our pick up service, which affected our stock
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levels as well. We tried to keep the shop open as long as possible but many of our volunteers had spouses who were at risk if they caught the virus, so they elected to remain at home even before full self-isolation came into being. At all times we supported their decision and want to thank them for all their hard work leading up to the closure, we hope they have all remained safe and well during this time. With the decrease in donations and volunteers and only 4 paid staff working Monday to Friday, it was becoming too difficult to continue and it was finally decided that we would close on Saturday 28th March until further notice. This action was the only way we could ensure
the health and wellbeing of all our staff, volunteers, customers and tradesmen. Be assured we will open as soon as the government advises retail shops can and when we can get our volunteers together again. As soon as we can open I will advertise it on our website www.busyfingersfundraiser.com.au
DONATIONS
We have advised our continual donation receivers such as VMR, BI Hospice and Global Care that we will
TAX TIPS
ATO “ONE STOP SHOP� FOR COVID-19 STIMULUS MEASURES The ATO has just updated its website with information on the support available to individuals and businesses due to the Coronavirus. Go to: www.ato.gov.au/ coronavirus Check your eligibility for the Jobkeeper payments on this site and register your interest for this benefit, if you meet the eligibility criteria www.ato.gov.au/jobkeeper There are several steps in the process to claim Jobkeeper payments, so work through each step. It is important to claim
everything you can at this time, but to work out what you are entitled to is a bit of a process. Other measures announced by the Government include: early access to superannuation (on hardship grounds) cash flow assistance for employers increased instant asset write off for small to medium businesses variations and deferrals to PAYG Installments remission of interest charges and penalties
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