Plea for tools to help veterans
Chipping Sodbury Rotary Club has been supporting Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) for several years and has been collecting old carpentry or engineering tools, or electrical tools (without batteries). We have collected many donations and delivered them to the Bristol centre in Warmley where they have been processed, polished, sharpened and renewed – all being packed into complete tool kits to send to Africa. These are given to students to enable them to take a technical college course, or to young entrepreneurs to enable them to start a small business.
We now have news of a new initiative started by TFSR. It’s called A Building Kit for Building Heroes and it’s designed to help Armed Forces veterans to get back into work after leaving the Services – specifically into the building trade.
So now we would like to hear from anyone who can offer builders’ tools such as brick bolsters, cold chisels, masonry drill bits, hammers (brick, lump, sledge) mallets, pliers, shovels, spades, spirit levels etc. anything to do with the building trade. …..and by the way, TFSR is now also happy to accept old gardening tools.
We are happy to collect in the Kingswood, Warmley, Marshfield areas, so if you’re clearing out your shed and can offer any of these things, (carpentry, engineering, building, gardening) please call Clive on 0117 932 2673, and we will collect.
Marian Gilpin, Yate
Thanks for helping my fundraising
I AM really grateful the Voice shared my fundraiser last year.
I’m now halfway through my fundraising goal and have made/funded half the 30 mental health and domestic violence support packs required for Bristol high schools and libraries.
I’ve been applying for grants (no luck so far) and contacting schools/community centres/churches to see if I can have a table at any of their fairs/ table top sales.
The few that said yes were lovely; I funded at least one pack at most of them.
BBC Radio Bristol have been great at sharing the events.
One kind man heard me talking on the radio and brought a bag of about 300 new-born baby knitted hats for me to sell, which was so kind. I would like to trace him to thank him.
I have been uploading the hats online in small bundles hoping people will buy them.
Every £7 raised funds a pack.
Emma-Louise James, Kingswood