Well done! Jacqui H, Wendy Mac and Aldene!

 

Many of us were very impressed and touched by the work of Yes!Brixham:

 

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Can you help?

As a small charity, we thought it would be interesting to let people see some of the regular payments we have to make to keep things running smoothly here at The Edge!

- It costs around £166 a month to keep our mini bus running – without this, we wouldn’t be able to make collections and deliveries for our shop nor use it for transporting our young volunteers to the community garden, allotment and local beaches to clean in the Summer.

- Our hot water and heating all run on a wood-fired burner. Each load of specially kiln dried logs costs us £480 a time.

- On average, it costs us £300 a month for all our printing and photocopying costs, which is a vital part of our support work when we help people with benefit forms.

- Last year, our Grotto cost us around £3100 to run for the community. As many know, our Grotto is free and we rely on donations (monetary, item based and labour time!) to keep it going every year.

- On average we pay £22 a week to run our washing machine and tumble dryer, which those without a fixed address or washing facilities are able to use.

- Our food bank costs us around £87 a week to stock up on important and essential items to provide the people of Brixham a range of meals.

- We pay around £38 a month to keep our fridges and freezers running – helping us provide fresh food and frozen items to those accessing our food bank and community fridge.

- It costs us around £3.80 a week, boiling the kettle, for all the cups of tea and coffee we make in our community cafe, music sessions, activities and whilst supporting people.

Over the last year we have seen, spoken to or had other contact with over 13,376 people and we are proud to continue to help those in our community.

If you feel you would like to support the charity, please get in touch with us on 01803851414 or email info@yesbrixham.org.uk. We appreciate every single person who helps keep the charity going, from donations and voluntary time to buying items in our charity shop. Thank you!

(Donation link below is for the whole of Yes! Brixham not just music https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HKQX35LX93YW6&source=qr&fbclid=IwY2xjawGq_6VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdJ67Gkpy2yRRqSHO0UsEt6W5vaDcuF2X1tZzmAVYN-nB1nVa16ejcahKw_aem_GV7MVXNh8uomTj3YN75dHw

November Institute Meeting

Today’s meeting was a great success! With so many absolutely gorgeous entries in our Margaret Seaward Exhibition! We all chose three very worthy winners! Although, actually, all of the exhibits were really wonderful! Fantastic work everyone! Thank you for participating!

Please remember to destroy any paper or electronic copies of the contact list so that we comply with GDPR fully.

Jacqui H won the Rose Bowl trophy

Wendy Mac won a Rose Bowl trophy

Aldene won the silver salver

❤️Our Queen of Hearts, Ann P, came dressed appropriately! ❤️

 

Yes Brixham

 For those of us who are keen to support Yes Brixham - here is one way of doing so.

YES Brixham

Did you know about our Amazon Wishlist? We add items on here that we may be looking for to help us in different ways in the charity! 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2R6YHYQBJKEPU?ref_=wl_share&fbclid=IwY2xjawGoMORleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQHiS9xerGr62_V5FVVo7LSr7r9VHxyEsZ3_ZrIifo4lPMSf1NiIv3T_Ow_aem_uK3DE3Bs1_K1rLPpV8RYuQ

What’s On?

Monday: 2 pm dog walk at Broadsands. All welcome, with or without a dog! Stay for a coffee or tea at the café afterwards.

Wednesday: 2pm Institute meeting and Margaret Seaward Exhibition. Bring your Nursery Rhyme entry!

Bookworms report from Rebecca

 Bookworms met on Wednesday to discuss our book. There was not much book discussion as all but a couple of us didn’t finish it. It was not our cup of tea! The book in question was “A long night in Paris” by Dov Alfon.

We did have a lovely hour though catching up.

Our next book is “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”.

Readers, something for you!

 For all book lovers, at a loss for the next good read:

Corporal Carrot Quotes

Have - have you got an appointment?' he said.

'I don't know,' said Carrot. 'Have we got an appointment?'

'I've got an iron ball with spikes on,' Nobby volunteered.

'That's a morningstar, Nobby.'

'Is it?'

'Yes,' said Carrot. 'An appointment is an engagement to see someone, while a morningstar is a large lump of metal used for viciously crushing skulls. It is important not to confuse the two, isn't it, Mr-?' He raised his eyebrows.

'Boffo, sir. But-'

'So if you could perhaps run along and tell Dr Whiteface we're here with an iron ball with spi- What am I saying? I mean, without an appointment to see him? Please? Thank you.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)