So, hi guys.
We have had a few regulars in.
A lot of people have come in and said, oh, I was the market.
And they've said, expensive.
Yeah.
You know.
And now it's gone quite flat out there.
I think a lot of people have gone home now because it's just so expensive.
It's like £4 for a little piece of cake.
Now, people have overheads.
People are putting their time in.
People are designing stuff, making stuff.
It all costs money.
But it's just going to come to a head at some point in the game.
So I'm re-planning the clothes anyway.
So we've got a full basket of 12 to 18, an overflowing basket of 9 to 12, probably 6 to 9.
And 9 to 12 will probably be quite a lot.
And loads of 3 to 6.
And these are all out £50 to £3 for a pound.
But can I just remind people, because I am sending out some cease and desist letters from solicitors Monday, that our baby bank is free.
This is our food bank fundraising shops.
They're two different entities.
So they're situated in different places.
These are for mums that want to support the baby bank and don't need a handout.
They need a hand up.
And if they've received items, offers and help from us, they want to help other mothers.
So these are 3 for a pound or you can currently fill a carrier bag for £5 with them.
There's loads here.
Absolute loads.
Come in and grab them.
Same with the other shops.
We always get tonnes of clothes.
And these are the boutique clothes and they will be half the prices on them.
And I think, well, £2.50 for that brand new is pretty good.
We've got sleep suits.
We've got loads.
I've got a couple of hangers down there to replen, because somebody's just had to fill a bag for a fiver.
The filler bag for a fiver is on the 50p clothes.
All the ones with price tags will be at least half price.
Up until the end of January.
But I just want to reiterate that our baby bank...
Where can I stand you?
Our baby bank is free.
So if you qualify to use it, then it's free.
And we also run a children's bank, which we don't rave about a lot.
Where mothers in need can apply for a clothes bundle.
Age 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
Baby milk is free.
Baby food is free.
Nappies are free.
And it's all worked on a system where we have a 5 item in store top up shop.
Because mothers don't always need a full food bank, do they?
You don't need a full food bank every week.
Sometimes you just need a few staples to get you through the week.
I had pizza bases from the church.
I had the tomato sauce stuff to go on there.
So I thought I only need the topping.
So I only need cheese.
I bought cheese, mozzarella.
That's a 3 to 4.
Why is it over you?
And I had mozzarella, normal cheese and bacon.
I thought we'd have bacon on it.
So I only needed 3 ingredients to use up the ingredients that I had for free.
So one of them was already in my cupboard.
And that's what we need sometimes.
Not everybody needs a hand out, do they?
And not everybody wants a hand out.
Sometimes mums just want a hand up out of the situation.
It's called working together.
But, you know, we won't...
I won't tolerate these groups giving us grief online.
You can't afford to sue me.
So you need to be really careful what you say.
And I mean, I've really, really shown the Mean Girl energy.
I think.
It's really, really shown exactly what I'm saying.
Like, you know, every time I say something, you all go out of your way to prove your true colours.
And then people are like, oh, you can see that's being nasty.
But to lie and then to make out as well that it'll be your baby bank will be free.
It won't be free for long.
I can tell you that now because you're all money grabbers.
And to make out that we don't have the fire labels in our clause.
OK, which is a legal requirement is a very low blow to put out there.
And it is slanderous because it's not true, because I can just pick up one off the floor like that and not even look.
And it's got a fire label in it because I know that my staff and myself have done our job correctly.
So, you know, to make slanderous.
I mean, you know, if you want to try and sue me for some of the comments I've made, go ahead and try it.
But what I will say is it's only slander and malicious communications if it's not true.
If I'm telling the truth, then you're just throwing your money away because you won't get anywhere in a court of law with it.
But just remember now, you might still be the owner.
You're not actually the trustee of HTC anymore.
You might still be the owner and you might still be lurking around in the corners there.
Trying to puppeteer it.
But please remember that you're only the owner now.
The trustees answer to the Charity Commission.
You don't.
So if you and your family are now slagging people off, then maybe you have to step aside and not actually participate in the social media aspect of your charity or the running of it.
Because, I think that's a newborn thing.
Checking around there.
It looks like these baskets need to go in through.
But maybe you should step aside and not be involved in any of the social media aspect because you're now bringing your charity into disrepute again.
And you can't even defend it now because you're not the trustee.
So now the other trustees have got to deal with that.
But there we go.
You know, we knew this would happen.
We knew you would try and make out that we're picking on you.
But we're not, are we?
Because you're the one that's continually picking on us and having little groups.
But what you have to be aware of now is the way that you look to the community.
Because you look to the community as if you are trying to gang up.
Because I think you've got that... Oh, that's dirty.
You've got that Carrie-Anne.
She's having a go.
You've got... and now she actually is a volunteer for HTC.
So she needs to learn to behave really, doesn't she?
And they'll make comments on stuff.
Perhaps she shouldn't be on the social media posts.
And then you've got Nicole who is saying that we don't have fire labels in our clothes.
All our clothes have got fire labels in them.
And as I'm going through... these have already been checked once.
They're just being sorted out.
As I'm going through them, I'm still checking them for cleanliness because there's always room for human error.
And I'm checking for fire labels as well.
But what you're seeing there is quite slanderous.
But that's okay because we've got a solicitor to deal with that.
So we'll be dealing with that this week.
And then to say that we charge for our baby bank when we don't.
This is our food bank fundraising shop.
If any of you could read.
Perhaps you want to lay off the turkey teeth and the false nails and the false boobs and all the rest of it.
And actually go and get your laser eye surgery done.
So that you can actually read some of the stuff that's online and the relevant stuff.
Because if you read what's online, it'll say to you that this is our food bank fundraising shop.
This is where we put the excess of clothes.
If we get a bundle in and we haven't got enough three to six, I'll say to the girls take it off the shop floor.
I'll take them off sale to make up the bundles because the bundles are free for the mothers.
But that just goes to show that you know absolutely nothing about us.
If you thought that this, every shop, if you thought that this was the baby bank.
If you actually thought this was the baby bank.
Bearing in mind it doesn't say baby bank on the sign.
So yeah, maybe you should lay off the plastic surgery and the turkey teeth and all the rest of it between them all.
And go and get some laser eye surgery.
What do you think?
It's flat out there now.
I don't think there's anybody out there now.
I think these markets, I think the town centres, they need to give them a miss.
Because God knows how much they've paid for their stalls.
Pontypool was about £25 last time I asked.
But I don't know what it is now.
Well we've had a few people who have asked to be volunteers again.
That's absolutely fine.
But you need to be able to work the baby clothes on a regular basis.
And you need to do it properly.
Because the last two people I've had in here didn't do it right.
And they were cutting corners left, right and centre.
And that's not what we do.
We go through every item.
We go absolute, you know, somebody could touch these baby clothes today.
Look, somebody could touch them and they could get dirty.
So they don't get put in there.
Somebody could come in with something dirty on their hands and go, Oh, I don't like that.
And then the clothes are dirty.
So they still need checking even when they've gone out.
But I know for a fact that some of these aren't being checked.
And the last ones we add in were a bit slapdash.
So we won't, like I say, we won't tolerate that.
It's got to be done properly.
You know, we're doing this to make it easier for our mothers to come in.
So they haven't got to go through a great big huge basket or travel caught like they have to in Salvation Army and places like that.
All right, I know they haven't done it right because I got like 11 to 12 in here.
So, yeah, we might be able to take on some of this is pretty.
And can I just point out for the record?
Fire label, because fire labels need to be in accessories as well.
Like I said, you can open a baby bank.
I know bothered takes the pressure off me.
It means I got to spend less money on nappies and poma.
Now you dullbuggers do it, but I'm not having you saying that we're doing things against the law because we're not.
And I'm not having you as a charity in playing that.
Because we're not.
We do everything exactly as we should be.
And that's why we've never had any.
Oh, that's it.
I would go in the bin.
That was no good.
Oh, I got a customer.
There you go.