Other events planned include a table at St Francis School Summer Fayre in June and a Great Tea Party with games for children in July.
We are always looking for volunteers to help at our events or join the committee if they wish to get more involved.
If interested or for more information please call Ray Fishman: 07521 151 761
Who am I?
I’m Ray. I’m originally from London and I moved to Chandler’s Ford in 1993 with my job in the insurance industry.
I am married with 2 grown up children, who went to Thornden School and Peter Symonds College.
I retired in 2010 leaving me time to concentrate on hobbies including watching football, playing tennis, golf and badminton. I also enjoy travelling abroad.
Ray as a Gamesmaker at the London Olympics in 2012.
Today, 12 December, I arrived as a collector for Marie Curie at Brambridge garden centre near Eastleigh, and found that the children’s choir along with their music teacher, family and friends had been diverted to a transparent marquee outside the restaurant, with a loud generator for heating. The collector(s) were expected to collect from the family and friends, using buckets and stickers.
The children were not offered any refreshments, such as squash and biscuits.
This isolated them all from the customers in the restaurant and they might as well have entertained their families and friends at the school, possibly along with the Nativity play.
Ray told me they had all been isolated like this because the families and friends took seats and tables in the restaurant without buying refreshments. Maybe they could not afford them. (One or two people did bring in their coffees.)
Perhaps as a gesture of goodwill the company could in future invite the children’s choir with a music teacher and maybe an extra teacher, without the group of non-purchasing families and friends, to entertain the customers and staff and be given some light refreshments.
There was one lady collecting at the entrance to the garden centre and this seemed enough.
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Today, 12 December, I arrived as a collector for Marie Curie at Brambridge garden centre near Eastleigh, and found that the children’s choir along with their music teacher, family and friends had been diverted to a transparent marquee outside the restaurant, with a loud generator for heating. The collector(s) were expected to collect from the family and friends, using buckets and stickers.
The children were not offered any refreshments, such as squash and biscuits.
This isolated them all from the customers in the restaurant and they might as well have entertained their families and friends at the school, possibly along with the Nativity play.
Ray told me they had all been isolated like this because the families and friends took seats and tables in the restaurant without buying refreshments. Maybe they could not afford them. (One or two people did bring in their coffees.)
Perhaps as a gesture of goodwill the company could in future invite the children’s choir with a music teacher and maybe an extra teacher, without the group of non-purchasing families and friends, to entertain the customers and staff and be given some light refreshments.
There was one lady collecting at the entrance to the garden centre and this seemed enough.
Catherine Mac Manus.