Oh what a month August 2024 has turned out to be! Over 50 Happy Handbags and 50 Happies (sacks/boxes etc) delivered in 2 trip to Swindon Nelson Trust, 3 trips to Nelson Trust Gloucester & Family Haven Gloucester, 1 collection (from me) by Nelson Trust Bristol and 2 special drops (1-of emergency drops to a Service Provider).
The word is spreading, mainly by doing the talks to receptive women’s groups, 2 in July and 1 in August.
I have 4 booked for September, 3 for October, 4 for November and 1 for December!
It’s amazing how generous people are being, often also donating new clothing (underwear desperately needed). I’m having 1 or 2 donation a week to me in Frampton Cotterell to the point that I’m often putting them straight into my car (to save me carrying them upstairs, only to carry them back down again to take – my car’s always full now as well as my house!) Thankfully I can take the overflow to Big Yellow Self Storage, Gloucester but I still need to store the handbags and handbag products in my house so I can fill the bags!
Without the help of Big Yellow, all your donations from the talks and the kind people bringing donations to me I don’t know if I could continue…… But the situation is getting worse… I’m now having Service Providers requesting more and more toiletries, underwear, outer clothing etc….