Wednesday the 9th February was a good day in fact no it was a proud day.
In my business a long time ago we started to charge our customers if they wanted a carrier bag. We asked for a donation for the local hospice, we raised up to maybe £12,000/£13,000.
We have a customer who comes in who was at the time still in the Army. Due to four operations on his shoulders he has now been discharged from the Army and is now in civvy street. He still needs operations to get something like better mobility than he has now. I know of Royal Marines who also are injured.
We have decided to raise money instead of the local Hospice a place that looked after my Dad when he needed it most. Now we are raising money for the Help for Heroes.
We have a big plastic bottle of the type that is used in office drink machine to dispense water. When recently filled a bottle and after counting the contents we found that it had £1,408.17p. Our previous best for the Hospice was £1,300 app. On Wednesday i took down to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham a cheque for £1,408.17 i felt proud af what we had done for the Heroes.
I took the money to the ward where when Soldiers return from Afghanistan injured this is the first place they come for treatment. We are now 2/3rd's of the way to filling another bottle so lets hope we can do as much as we did last time.
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