No 693
Monday 20th - Sunday 26th November, 2017
Tel: 637 227 385
Poppy totals head toward new high and many European countries including here in Spain. he Poppy Appeal was aiming to raise a record £43 million in UK this year.
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To help reach that target, over 150,000 volunteers were out on the streets, markets and in shopping centres across the UK
Although local branches have been busy raising funds for those ‘needy’ ex-servicemen and their dependants since the beginning of the year, their activities have increased dramatically in recent weeks as they set out on their final fundraising ‘efforts’ of the year with the ‘Poppy Appeal’
here in District Spain (North). In Spain the members from 30 branches, 12 on the Costa del Sol, and the remainder from the areas that make up Spain District North, predominantly the Costa Blanca, Calida and Almeria, have also been busy during recent weeks, collecting your thousands of donations. With poppies and collection boxes distributed to over 550
bars, restaurants and other locations across the region, the three local branches mobilised their ‘armies’ of volunteers, in Mid-October. They were active at Alicante airport, as well as pounding the streets at local markets, many supermarkets and shops, and dozens of other venues and collection outlets. Continued on Page 2