The Care Box for the NETS crew will follow later in a few weeks when the weather is much cooler.
We also have the half size tea-chest box to send to Bathurst Fire Brigade in a few days if all goes well. We have adopted them to help every few months as they appreciate our toy donations a lot.
At the moment we have 10 sets in red and white towards the NSW Ambulance sets and we are about to start collecting brand new toys for the trauma packs. These will now go in large clip lock bags instead of boxes.
We will no longer be taking on any refuges due to an incident with one yesterday however; we are still taking care of the Dubbo Refuge Wish List if you wish to contribute to it. Please only send what is on the list given for now.
We have also deleted baby bottles, powder and dummies from all baby packs at the request of nurses due to new laws being incorporated. However, the refuge still requires these items. Plus we have omitted letters from packs for families due to some problems and costs and instead will just add a business card which will include some message like "Given with love" ................
Saves hundreds of dollars, a lot of time and effort and it saves a lot of tears.
We will only be donating soft toys for trauma kids to police if they contact us and ask for them. We will gladly send them then for the children. meanwhile we will keep up our regular supply to fire brigades and ambulance.
Currently, we are looking for donors for soap per $60 for 500 for our baby packs if anyone is interested? If so, please just send money via Paypal to our email address and we can purchase them locally; photograph and put it up on Facebook and the website along with the docket for them.
Anyone wishing to get donations to us via free freight please call Cowra Freight on
0263 42 5719. Therese is away for a few weeks on long service leave but you can call Caroline on that number. Free freight in NSW is from their depots in Dubbo, Wetherill Park, Forbes, Grenfell, Young, Canowindra. They also have follow on from Canberra and other places so a large box may only cost for example $10 to freight it from other places to us. It's the other