3 Early Christmas Presents for 1st Weybridge Scouts!
What a wonderful month December 2011 has been for 1st Weybridge Scout Group who have received 3 generous early Christmas Presents!
Our first early Christmas present was from Tiny Toddlers, a local childcare company recommended by the Good Nanny Agency Guild, who has sourced offers of free labour to help us move forwards with our renovations work. Emma the owner of www.tinytoddlerschildcare.co.uk, saw our plea for help on Twitter and arranged help from a local building company with whom she has connections.
Our second early Christmas present was from Leigh Lush of www.premierheating.net who initially contacted 1st Weybridge Scouts offering his help with our Lego Fundraising Project. He met with the fundraising co-ordinator, Debbie Conibere, and offered to see if he could help source some toilet equipment. We are thrilled to report that Leigh has sourced 1st Weybridge Scout Group all the equipment we need to fit the two new toilet blocks at the HQ for free.
Our third early Christmas present has come from the Community Foundation for Surrey who have awarded 1st Weybridge Scout Group £1000 towards our renovations works.
Debbie Conibere, Fundraising Co-ordinator, excitedly reported, “1st Weybridge has been totally overwhelmed by the generosity of support for our renovations works and are thrilled that earlier in the month Emma from Tiny Toddlers Childcare sourced free labour, Leigh of Premier Heating has been able to kit out the new toilet blocks in the form of free toilets, sinks and more. The final icing on the cake was when a letter arrived with the Christmas Post informing us that we had been awarded a £1000 towards new windows from the Community Foundation for Surrey!”
“This means that over the Christmas period, when people still tucking into their Turkey Sandwiches, work will commence on our new toilet block, plus one of our huge windows will be replaced. When the Beavers, Cubs and their parents return in the New Year they will be greeted with sparkling new working toilets which is one of the best presents of all.”
These are three truly wonderful gifts which will really help our group with the renovation of our HQ, our aim is to have a beautifully renewed building that we can open for public use.
In early 2012 work will commence on the rest of the windows at 1st Weybridge Scout Groups HQ which will ensure our building holds in the heat instead of it escaping out of the broken windows. There is still a long way to go as the HQ needs rewiring, a new catering style kitchen, building of a disabled access ramp, redecoration and more, so there are lots more fundraising events planned for 2012.
If you can offer help of labour or materials then please contact Debbie Conibere on 07931 945 282, email debbie@1stweybridgescouts.org.uk or @1stWeybridge on Twitter
A message from some of the children at 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group