Collections and Recycling Update 2017-19
During 2018-19 Bedford Soroptimist International will have a targeted collection each month:
October Bedford Food Bank
November Shoe Boxes for Christmas
December Items requested by the Women’s Refuge
This is in addition to National and International Projects
Some Bedford Soroptimists with some of the colourful and attractive new books they have collected to go to children in the women’s refuge.
Donations via Recycling for Good Causes to The Diamond Education Grant www.sigbi.org/our-charities/deg/
25 bags of curency 1.5kg
17 phones/cameras/laptops 2.6kg
26 bags of stamps 1.5kg
Jewellery 6.1 kg
Donations to Vision Aid Overseas www.visionaidoverseas.org
95 pairs of spectacles
Donations to St John’s Hospice Moggerhanger
71 printer cartridges
Donations to Frip Ethique a Women’s Social Enterprise in Senegal via Oxfam
www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/donate-goods/what-happens-to-your-donation/inside-frip-ethique
265 bras
Donations to Wee Care Jamaica from sale of books
£38
Donations to Bedford Foodbank www.bedford.foodbank.org.uk
28 items