Malcolm Hall of Grantham & District Scout Association says…
Most sincere thanks to all the people of Grantham who supported this year’s Christmas Post
Campaign. We delivered nearly 9,000 cards, slightly less than 2022.
All of the money raised by this effort will go the benefit of local boys and girls in Scout Groups in the District.
The campaign brings together a great many people in the organising, sorting and delivering of
the cards. Our grateful thanks must go to the businesses who acted as our ‘post offices’, the
parents of the boys and girls who deliver the cards, and to the Scouts Active Support team and
their families, who collect and sort the cards and help in so many ways.
Normally each year we have a number of wrongly or badly addressed cards, the delivery of
which tests our ingenuity, and this year we have five – these have only a name, or names with
no address, or an address that we can’t identify, and are for –
Hannah & Rob, Nicola Alex Lily,
Mrs P Birch, 69 Belton Lane, Great Gonerby, Mr and Mrs Jonnson, 41 Belton Lane, Great Gonerby and Captain & Mrs Lynch, 18 Lord Drive, Great Gonerby – these last three cards have
addresses which, as far as we can establish, don’t exist. If these names ring a bell with anyone
please contact me at the email below.
Finally, a plea for FULL and CLEAR addresses (preferably correct) on all cards, and again,
please, ONLY WITHIN OUR DELIVERY AREA.
We have this year made it clear that we will
not be able to post or hand deliver cards which were not for addresses within our advertised
delivery area.
The cards have been retained and these will be available to collect from the Scout Shop, which is at the 2 nd Grantham HQ on Broad Street, Grantham, on Saturdays from 10 – 12 noon, until the end of January. Postcodes would be useful as an aid to searching for addresses if necessary.
We have cards for addresses in Ancaster, Bottesford, Carlton Scroop, Caythorpe, Claypole,
Croxton Kerrial, Honington, Little Bytham, Marston, Ropsley, Stoke Rochford, Welbourne,
Wilsford and Woiolsthorpe by Belvoir.
There are also cards for addresses in Boston, Norwich,
London, Craven Arms, Willerby, Surbiton, Melton Mowbray, Oxford, Winthorpe, Poole, Newark,
Derby and Sleaford.
If anyone thinks they may have sent a card to an address in any of the
above, please call at the Scout Shop or email chairman@granthamscouts.org.uk
Once again, many thanks from the Scouts of Grantham and District.
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