That's nice.
I just caught my eye there.
That's beautiful.
Anyway, no donations guys now, right?
Until New Year, alright?
Unless we get a warehouse, okay?
I am looking for a warehouse, right?
But I can't see one going down cheap.
I mean, look at our friend from the Pet Food Bank service.
Wasted when I put the rent up £5,000 a year, right?
You know, I can't, right?
This is the delusional bubble that landlords are in at the moment, right?
Not all landlords are.
We know that.
We got good landlords, right?
Some of our landlords being good.
Some of them are delusional, right?
Because they are just putting rents up and it's like you're having a laugh.
Like people are walking, people are closing their frightened centre, right?
So no donations now off the public, okay?
Because I already have business contracts and charity contracts that I have to fulfill, okay?
Now, if I could take it, I would take it, guys.
But I cannot fit it in anywhere.
We've sold loads the last couple of weeks and look, it don't look like anything's moved, right?
We've sold lots.
The sales have been up.
We've been giving away stuff for free.
We've had £20 here, £10 there, £20 there.
Giving away for free, free bundles for mothers.
And look, it don't look like anything's moved, right?
Please, guys, right?
No donations now.
We are deadly serious with this one.
No donations until after Christmas, okay?
We need breathing space and I, for one, am quite relaxed with the fact that we're not getting tons and stuff in, okay?
My mother is still working stuff from her house, so I'm still having stuff off her.
I've had some CDs in, you know?
So she's working those, so I've got to get those out.
So when I say no donations, it's because I know in my head what we've got backlogged and what's doing off other people, okay?
If we get a warehouse, it will all change, right?
A situation where I need to get more industrial racking, and I might get a bargain.
I had a bargain last time.
Wherever I will, I don't know.
But I mean, my, you know, I wouldn't want to spend £5,000 worth of the baby bank's money when I know I can get something at a bargain price.
You know that.
I'd rather spend a thousand and get a good deal.
So please, please, please now either hang on to your donations, donate them to somewhere else.
I know there's not a lot of people taking on donations at the moment.
Where's he come from?
Vars full of these things.
Where's he gone?
Perhaps he sold the others, do we?
So yes, I know it's difficult at the moment or hold on to stuff until after Christmas, okay?
Because I think other places are in the same boats as well.
Everybody's getting stuff donated.
It's all brilliant stuff.
It's brilliant.
Don't bin it.
Well, I don't think they lay you now down the tip anyway.
They go through it, don't they?
But we cannot take anything else in the shops.
I've got stuff to work.
I've got rooms full of stuff in shops that are full to the ceiling.
So I need to work to get out first, okay?
You know, if I took on another shop tonight, I could fill it, like fill it like this tonight.
Trust me, with stuff I've already got backlogged, okay?
We're doing what we can.
We're doing the giveaway to where we can do it.
Because look how much stock we got.
We can give away £20 a month in every shop.
Make sure you're getting your raffle tickets, especially risk it because I don't think you're giving any raffle tickets out.
If you're buying stuff, you need to have raffle tickets.
So make sure you're picking one up.
It's every time you come in and shop or every time you donate.
But obviously you're not donating at the moment.
So that's the plan.
That's the plan.
So a little bit of an update from these horrible charities that pick on us.
The risk of itchers, the pantry and the snag, they tried to get the police to take on a case because I said about the son doing up to no good in the pantry, creating problems, blah, blah, blah, blah, and in the snag and the police won't take it on because they can't arrest somebody for telling the truth.
They can't be arrested for recycling and you can't be arrested for telling the truth.
Can you?
So there we are.
This is lovely.
Our dress is still here.
I've got a couple of people looking at it.
It will be £2.50 today, that will might.
£2.50 it will be.
I don't know what that one's up at.
It was £12.
We got him at £8.
So it will only be £2.00 or that will today.
So yes, there we are.
Another tell-tale sign of somebody who tells the truth is when they don't get arrested for telling it.
Oh, he's cool.
I like him.
He's lovely.
And then the other red flag that comes up for me with the website is that HTC keeps saying they're nothing to do with the website and the website say they're nothing to do with but yet the website is all HTT HTT.
Hayley Thomas Hayley Thomas.
Sticking up for her trying to converse with me across the website comments about Hayley Thomas.
And it's like, well, why would you be?
Why would you be if you're nothing to do with them?
Because there's other charities that have turned around and said get my name off that website right now or I will take legal action against you.
Thank you very much because they don't want to be involved and they don't want to contribute to it either and they're not you know, they're friends with us and they don't want their details on the website.
So why is HTT allowing them to because it's their website.
That's why once again proved everybody wrong again, haven't I?
Prove myself right again.
So yes, no donations guys.
I need this bike gone.
It's very big somebody asked me but I think it was It's quite big, Katie.
This is this is like my waist.
I don't know.
It's like look it's up to my waist.
It's a big one.
I think it's an adults one.
I mean if you're going to have the bits to go with it as well, I could probably do you a jaw block for the bits on this but it'd be on offer.
We'll put it on offer for you.
I've got three children's bikes.
We need to get them out guys.
Where's the other one gone?
Come on now Ready for Christmas?
They're lovely.
Oh my shoes ain't getting wet today.
No, no, they're just under the thing.
They're not getting wet today.
No, they're just under the lip.
They're just under the lip.
Got some lovely stuff in.
Lovely little stool.
We're going to do some pricing now.
We're a bit of cook dinner left that I'm going to have for my lunch and I think we're having spag ball when we go home.
I don't think we've got any cheese.
I'll have to send Dan out for cheese.
But we got some beautiful stuff in guys.
But like I said, no donations now.
Hang on to them for us.
Pass them on to another good group.
If we get a weird house, you will be the first to know because I will say to you, weird house, doors open, get over there.
I've already told my mother anyway, she used to put her elf suit on and go over there and we'll take all the toys we can we do a good thing for the mothers and do it like fill a bag for a pound, send all the toys over there.
Whatever.
She's on standby with her elf costume.
Obviously we're not going to be doing Santa in the shops this year.
I think I have told you this a few times.
We're not doing it this year because number one, I'm not very well.
I need a break.
Not taking any donations has made a big impact on me.
I feel a lot more relaxed, not having to worry about everything's coming in and we haven't got the room in the shops to do it.
So I can't see us pulling anything out of the bag to do a Santa.
So we won't do it this year.
Maybe we'll do one next year.
Maybe we need to we're gonna, we gotta... I'm trying to rethink the whole delivery ready for the new year.
I'm not going to be pulling it together before the new year.
But in the new year, instead of just taking on shops and filling them, I'm trying to think of a new delivery how we can cope with the volume of stock that's coming in.
Me just being one person.
Because the problem is it exhausts the staff as well.
The staff get exhausted, you know, by the amount of donations that's coming in.
So I'm trying to rethink the whole delivery process of how we do it.
Okay?
I could do with like an investor to inject like 200,000 or 300,000 into us maybe if anybody's out there and got a couple.
Quit knocking around.
While I'm investing our recycling endeavour.
That's what I could do with right now.
But then I wouldn't want to pay stupid prices for warehouses anyway.
I think one of my friends was paying £18,000 a year, £5,000 increased.
It's ridiculous.
£24,000 a year for a warehouse for a charitable purpose, you know, or a recycling purpose is unacceptable.
And it's just such a waste of money in there.
It's just such a waste of money.
I wouldn't want, I wouldn't be paying nowhere near that.
And we don't pay nowhere near that now anyway.
Because we need to do the right thing by the baby bank finances.
And we need to get the best deals.
And in all fairness, I think we're one of the most sustainable tenants you will have at the moment.
Because we have built this from the ground up.
We haven't relied on grants.
We've had one £1,000 grant off one of the councils, which we're very grateful of.
And I think we're in line for another one this year, which is brilliant.
That is the only grant we've had.
And it went into the food bank for buying stock for the bank for mothers.
And we built this up from the bottom.
So we've got a sustainable business model without relying on grants.
So I think from a tenant point and a business point of view, we are one of the best bets to have out there right now.
Because our overheads, our biggest overhead is rent and electric.
That's our biggest overhead.
And the rest, you know, the rest is history in there, guys.
So I think if you're going to take on somebody you need to take on somebody like us, not just us, but somebody like us, that has built a sustainable business model from the beginning.
Not somebody who's just going to rely on grants to run their operations.
Because I told, you know, we warned you about these charities.
They'd already go in.
Sense is going.
Scope is going.
Cancer Research 200 shops going.
There's other charities going, right.
You're not... all these landlords, right, that milked our charities in there.
This is why I'm bothered signing up as a charity.
Because I preempt what's going on.
Not only does it protect us from complaints, because they only want us to have a charity number so they can complain about us.
The haters, right, which we don't need one, because we're just a baby bank and food bank, right.
You can do that as a social enterprise.
You don't need to do it, you know, you could do it as a community... constituted community group.
You don't need to do it as anything, you know.
You don't need it.
Council will tell you that if you ring them up.
But all these landlords that were milking £2,000 a month, or whatever, from charity shops being in their buildings, you're going to lose them.
I told you this, I warned you this months ago.
You're going to lose them.
The world is about to stop spinning guys.
You need to, you need to realize who's going to be left at the end.
That's what you need to realize.
And all these charity partners, all these charity shops now, they're going to be closing.
You can see more going guys, because they're not making enough.
And their overheads are too high.
I don't take a wage.
If I took a wage it would be like £40,000 to £60,000.
You know, for doing my job.
I mean you could have more.
I mean Captain Tom's daughter was paying herself £100,000 wasn't she?
You could pay more, but I think the charity commission are going to put a stop on it, aren't they?
And they're going to say £60,000 is the maximum.
But you don't pay me that.
I do this for free.
Because this is what I want to do.
I believe that when you're doing something charitable, you should be giving something back.
And I enjoy the recycling aspect of it.
This is what I want to do.
I want to recycle on a massive scale.
I'm not interested in the money.
The recycling is what I do.
Yeah, the baby bank and the mothers is where I've chose for the money to go.
But primarily it's recycling for me.
So going forward we need to be on a bigger scale.
We need to be on a more industrial scale.
It's the only thing I can think of.
There's nothing wrong with having little shops like this as well.
But I think going forward
the operation needs to be bigger to keep up with your donations.
And the thing is the last 12 months these groups that were trying to bring us down and all the haters and everybody else have shown their true colors and people can now see it.
So we're now getting 45 to 50 percent of the people who didn't like us before and didn't trust us before coming over to us because they're now saying well I'm not supporting them anymore because I can see straight through these.
Now this is exactly what Jane said from the beginning.
She said this about him, she said this about her, she said this about them and she's 100 percent right.
So now I'm going to start supporting Jane.
So we're having you know when when we had like 50 50 before we're now on 75 percent more donators than what we had at the beginning of the year.
Plus all the other customers is coming in.
I mean we had customers, let me open this shop, we had customers coming over from Talbot Green.
I was like I don't even know where that is and I have to google it.
I don't even know where Talbot Green was.
You know that's that's a local customer.
You know we've got customers coming over from Pontypreet.
Pontypreet and Merritha want us to be in their areas.
You know so we need to think on a bigger scale.
So even the warehouse that we have currently is too small for us.
Don't want to move from there but it's too small.
But we've got we've got good options there because we could expand on that particular site.
So and they are building more units all the time there and the way that that landlord has built those units you can expand very easily into the back unit or the side unit or to the left unit or to the right.
So again it's down to finances
and racking.
That's what we need finances, racking and equipment.
So it would be pump trucks.
We don't really want folk.
I can't be doing folk lifts.
Right because there's an added risk with folk lifts but pump trucks there isn't so much of an added risk.
There is an added risk but health and safety wise folk lifts there's a lot of a lot of risk.
So we would need more racking, bigger space in that area and going forward I think that's what we need as well.
So I think it's...
I think in the new year I don't know about it in the floor running in January but I feel like I'm on a wind down now until Christmas.
I have my holiday, my break and then say it's a working holiday just to wind the heaters up.
Ruin there Christmas.
And yeah I think we need to be bigger guys.
I think we need to be thinking more of a bigger scale.
You know this is what cancer research is doing.
Cancer research are going bigger.
Instead of having smaller shops and having more outgoings they're going bigger going bigger warehouses so that they can deal with the stock and the sales and have less managerial costs and less overhead costs such as electric and water in one building.
So while these little shops will still be handy for us our step forward is bigger before we take on more shops.
Now the psychic said nine shops Wales wide didn't she?
That's what the psychic said.
You're going to have nine shops Wales wide.
So but she didn't say nothing about warehouses did she?
You need to have a reading dummy guys.
That's what we need.
You need to have a reading.
Because I just feel like I'm in limbo at the moment.
I can't do anything at the moment other than price and tidy up.
And I feel like ready to expand but we can't.
We're stuck.
We're stuck because we're waiting on these landlords to realise what's going on in the economy for the prices to come down for us to expand.
And I just feel like I'm stuck in limbo.
We really do.
Really do.
So I don't know if we're gonna hit the floor running in January but I think next year I think we'll see big changes of us.
Big changes.
Hopefully.
Otherwise I'll end up with another three warehouses full of stock and we can't move.
And nine shops full of stock.
Right I think I don't know what the Oh we're on slow connection.
I think I'm gonna move this from here.
Might be a bit off putting when people come through the door.
Fetish way.