Volunteer Bulletin April 2019

Welcome to the April edition of your exciting Volunteer Bulletin.Hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend.You will find this bulletin is packed with the latest news, info and upcoming events.Enjoy your read!

SALE COMPLETE

We are very pleased to announce that the sale of Haven Road has been completed.

SARTORI STORES

E-Commerce

The E-Commerce Team have been creating some great bidding wars on eBay recently. A Vase was donated to Snowdrop Lane which Volunteer Sam spotted and did some research on it; to find it was a Limited Edition, Philip Gibson Moorcroft Vase. This started £499.99 and sold for a staggering £700.00. Well done Sam!

Also Vanda, a Volunteer in our Bridge Street store spotted something interesting in the donations. She put it to one side for Arianne to do some research. It turned out to be a Vintage Curta Type 2 mechanical calculator in very good condition and in the original case, this sold for £1005.00. Good work Vanda and Arianne.

During the month of March the E-Commerce department alone have generated over £8,000 income for the Foundation, sending items to countries as far as China and South Korea.

It is lovely to see the Retail team getting involved and helping to promote KAPOW! The window displays look amazing. Well done everyone, thank you for all your hard work and great suggestions.

Bridge Street Store in Haverfordwest

Pembroke Store

Fishguard Store

Milford Haven Store

Paul Sartori House have a wonderful display as well, thanks to Gill Jones

Bridge Street Store won a 2nd prize in a St Davids Day, shop window display.Da iawn to all involved in the display.

Milford Haven Store

Milford Store have been extremely busy lately. They are constantly changing their display to keep up with the season and special days.This is their recent Easter display, well done everyone.

Also they have recently held a ladies night, raising a fantastic £326.30.

Tracie Holland, Milford Store manager said "Thank you to everyone who came on Saturday 13th April for our ladies night at Milford Haven shop. It was a brilliant night and a big thank you to all that helped out on the night."

TESCO BAGS OF HELP

Paul Sartori Hospice at Home is still asking for your vote for a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.  Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects.

Three groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who they think should take away the top grant.  Paul Sartori is one of the groups on the shortlist for Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Goodwick stores. Their projects include High Quality, person-centred end of life care and Children’s anticipatory grief and bereavement counselling resource pack.

Voting is ONLY open until 30th April 2019 and customers will cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop.

Thank you.

FACILITIES AT PAUL SARTORI HOUSE

Paul Sartori House is based in Winch Lane, Haverfordwest and we have a number of training and meeting rooms to hire. By booking a meeting room with us you are providing valuable revenue to Paul Sartori Foundation which is Pembrokeshire's only Hospice at Home charity providing hands on care and equipment loan directly into the homes of people living in the later stages of any life-limiting illness.

Paul Sartori House offers:* Reception facilities* WiFi access* Video Conferencing facilities* Projector and Screen * Refreshments annex* Full disabled access and disabled toilet facilities* Off road parking

To book a room call : 01437 763223 or email : enquiries@paulsartori.org

SAUNDERSFOOT STROLLERS

A friendly walking group from Saundersfoot have recently held a competition to raise vital funds for Paul Sartori Hospice at Home. Sue Townsend from the Saundersfoot Strollers had a fantastic quiz put together by her sister Jan. Participants purchased the quiz; and they were able to take it home and complete in their own time. They raised an amazing total of £90.00 for the Pembrokeshire Charity. Members of the Saundersfoot Strollers chose to support Paul Sartori as some of them have experienced the services previously; and know the great impact they have on the end of life care in Pembrokeshire. The Strollers are also big supporters of the Saundersfoot New Year’s Day swim; which Paul Sartori are heavily involved in each year. “I think that this was a brilliant way to raise money for Paul Sartori whilst having a bit of fun. I personally would like to thank all of the Saundersfoot Strollers for raising £90.00; which will go towards a range of services for Pembrokeshire people living in the final stages of a life-limiting illness” said Phil Thompson MBE, Chair of Paul Sartori. The Saundersfoot Strollers meet every Tuesday and always welcome new members. Please contact Lyn on lynsandall@gmail.com if you would like to join them. You can also check out the Paul Sartori website for their events throughout the year: www.paulsartori.org

CRUFTS 2019

We would like to say a huge well done to Fiona Ramsden, Manager of Tenby and Narberth Sartori Stores. Fiona recently took part in Crufts 2019, the biggest annual event on the dog showing calendar.She showed an Alaskan Malamute in the Post Graduate Dog class and came away with 3rd in a strong class.

GIFT AID - STORE OF THE MONTH

Another good performance on Gift Aid, £10,553 for the month of March, compared to £8,391 last year. Neyland once again topped the charts, with an incredible 40% of sales being Gift Aided, second place was Narberth with Bridge Street in third on 21%.

The end of year rankings were as follows, in first place was Neyland on 28%, Narberth second with 23% and in third place with an outstanding turn around on last year was Pembroke Dock on 19%.

Did you know we claim Gift Aid from HMRC quarterly? For the last quarter over 900 letters were sent out from Paul Sartori House to donators who had Gift Aided.

In the financial year, 2018-19;  Gift Aided sales were approximately £114,000; this equates to an extra £28,000 for the Foundation, that’s equivalent to an extra 1120 hours of care.

This is why we ask you to ask the Gift Aid question.

VOLUNTEER AWARDS & AFTERNOON TEA

We will be holding our Annual Volunteer award ceremony to recognise our volunteers; at our Summer High Tea Volunteer Celebration. (Venue and Date TBC).The Paul Sartori Valued Volunteer Scheme aims to showcase the fantastic work that our volunteers do and to recognise their outstanding achievements.

There will be a variety of awards on the day:

1. Young Volunteer Award (Under 25)

2. Volunteer Award (Over 25)

3. Personal Impact Award (where volunteering has made a difference to the person)

4. Award for Length of Service - 5 years

5. Award for Length of Service - 10 years

6. Award for Length of Service - 15 years

7. Award for Length of Service - 20+ years

If you'd like to nominate a fellow volunteer or would like more information about the Paul Sartori Valued Volunteer Scheme, then call Paul Sartori House on 01437 763223.

BEREAVEMENT GROUPS

Paul Sartori also hold the following FREE Bereavement groups:

Bereaved by Suicide is on the last Monday of each month              andBereaved Parents is on the 2nd Friday of each month.

Everyone is welcome to the groups at Paul Sartori House, Winch Lane, Haverfordwest, SA61 1RP.

For more information or to book a place, call Elvire Beijdorff on 01437 763223

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Do you have a story about your volunteering experience at Paul Sartori? Or do you know a fellow volunteer with one to tell? Then I'd love to hear from you. If you'd like to send your story and if possible a picture, then email them to us at enquiries@paulsartori.org Alternatively, call Paul Sartori House and we can arrange to have a chat to find out more about being a feature in the Volunteer Bulletin!

PAUL SARTORI ONLINE

There are lots of resources online for our Volunteers, have a look at http://paulsartori.org/volunteering/. We work hard to vary the content on our Facebook page too, so please 'like' and 'share' https://www.facebook.com/PaulSartoriFoundation/

 

For more information about anything in this Volunteer Bulletin or to find out about volunteering for Paul Sartori, contact us on 01437 763223 or email lisa@paulsartori.org

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