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Make A Smile This Christmas - Tony Speaks to Kal & Rosie on BAYRADIO INTERNATIONAL
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Oct 29, 2024
Tony Grande from The Bed Centre In Calpe, also part of 'Make A Smile' a non-profit organisation that aims to feed children in need on the Costa Blanca. For the past few years, local children’s homes on the Costa Blanca have been seriously short of funds for even the most basic needs. At Make A Smile, the team work with the community in raising funds and using these to supply a balanced diet and daily needs for 50 children in the EMAUS group. Listen to Tony in conversation with Kal & Rosie on 'The Friday Feeling' show on BayRadio International.
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it's Ken Rosy's Friday feeling and one of our best Mates is in the studio with it's always good to catch up with Tony
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Grande from the bed Center but most importantly make a smile or should we say it the other way round it doesn't
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really matter cuz you don't work there anymore do you it doesn't really matter work at make a smile it's difficult to
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know where the bed Center finishes and make a smile starts nowaday so it's it's it's probably one it's probably one how
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are you because you've just been talking talking about beds and bed centers we've just been basically having a how old off
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am I like we we're all getting old I was 10 aching and painting you were saying that you quite like slippers and a new
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dressing gown for Christmas for Christmas yeah just so I can fall asleep in me big armchair say watching Dirty Dancing
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maybe Dirty Dancing Come Dancing very exciting yeah maybe more exciting than strictly I don't know yeah I don't know
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we've just been talking about Angela RI haven't we unbelievable 89 years of age I didn't know she was on that actually
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to be honest when you said she was on I thought she was judging no she she's done really really well and um I don't
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know how much of a popular vote she gets but she's you know for 79 years of age I remember that famous skit that she was
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on I think it was Moran and wise wasn't it or Two Ronnies I can't remember which no it was Moran W I think it was a Moran and wise Christmas show yeah and then
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she come down down step she was like a show girl and she was showing off her legs and I
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think she got voted the nicest legs on on I wouldn't argue with that Tony I wouldn't argue with that even now no
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even now she's sh we were just saying how that sort of um that age group are made of different
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stuff aren't they for sure real stuff AR they real stuff the Baby Boomers huh
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baby boomers I don't know what I don't know what we are Tony are we gen something you're Gen X aren't you Rosie
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are you gen yeah I'm not a millennial what before that Gen X gen I think I think we're at gen a now again I don't I
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think we've come back full circle I'm not sure what we are we're between B Boomers and
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yeah 59 I was born 59 I'm 65 next month month
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after January how did that ever happen so ladies and gentlemen if it's not slippers and Dr you out for Christmas
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the birthday between between 65 and 79
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you're Gen X between 46 and 64 you're a baby boomer we're Baby Boomers how we Baby Boomers oh well I didn't think
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weird yeah do we get any bonus for that yeah then there's Gen Y and Millennials and I think it's they were saying the
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other day J are the first ones no sorry the Millennials are the first ones not to earn as much or more than their
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parents that was the whole reason the story was and then they said something about J and I'm like really J
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already it's like the old car registrations when you can make sense of them of them
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can't really you drive a why oh I can't believe
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that I think that was an 83 actually or 82 too anyway there we go back in the
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day when you used to understand when it's like fashion it's sort of coming back around for me now I'm seeing people
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wearing stuff that we used to wear in the '90s like the old baggy baggy jeans and the fisherman hats and Joe blogs
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kind of stuff it's all come back around so I think that's when you're officially old isn't it is that what it is when you see F come around I think flares have
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been around about three times I can remember having a Budgy jacket I haven't seen one of them so you remember Budgy on the Telly
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he was sort of your day minder he was I thought I thought you'd have had a Harrington it was black with Mo colors I
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already thought you'd have had a Harrington I I found myself I went back home um a
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couple of weeks ago and it was my friend's little boy christening and I'd not seen her older kid for a while and
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there was lots of people I've not seen for well not as long as I thought because all the kids were like they were
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they were they were real grownup people you mean taller than you they they were adults and I just f as Bobby had seen me
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you're like a broken record I just get going gosh don't you look like your dad wow look how tall you are like oh my God
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I'm that cliche I'm that Auntie that just literally talks about how old you look yeah that's me now but the
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alternative is not good so we might as well stick with the Age part stick with Staying Alive exactly yeah
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yeah I'm happy with me 65th birthday I've managed to get there you know even
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if it is with slippers and and it's a new rock and roll Tony I love it 65 is a new 25
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I'm up for that I'm up for that we saying Tony is from the bed Center in CPE uh but uh you know having started
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sponsoring uh things on Bay radio uh subsequently ended up wrapped up in the make a smile charity how many years now
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15 years now okay it's 15 years now I always like to remind people exactly what happened because there are always
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new listeners and people coming to Spain who don't know what happened 15 years years ago last month someone came into
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the bed Center that and said when we when we sell you a bed we take the old beds away and someone actually came in
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and said if you get four second hair mattresses would you be kind enough to donate them to a children's home up in
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Bena I said I'll go and have a look at the Children's Home and it was one of those there was eight kids in there at a
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time and it was one of those things I remember coming home and and trying to tell Lucy my wife and just crying all
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day I couldn't get it out of my head we refurbished that house um we gave them all new bits thank you I
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have a bit of influence in the bits andly just cuz I'm just cuz I'm married to the boss used to you used to work I
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used to they even got a picture of me in a big S as a v dver underneath it it says the B driver just in case I got
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above me station you know there's a big picture for all our customers to see just points to the picture the vain
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driver you know and I think they don't let me talk to the customers until till such time till you know you can get a
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mattress out of B Matrix just in case I change the subject and get on to me kids oh no he's
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going to start talking about them kids again so what you found was a home for
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eight children where pretty much there was no support there was no support at the time the the company that was the or
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the charity the association was looking after was an association called eme which people that have been here more
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than sort of five six years would would remember emails I've been running for 30 years um and the crisis here excuse me
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in 2 it just went from bad to worse um at the time I've been told I'm not
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allowed to say too much about governments and payments to Charities and what have you but the governments can pay Charities a little bit late
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that's looking after sort of and um they just got into so much financial trouble
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that in the end we went from the Bena house to looking after Vel to kelpi to
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ELA um up to rails and now 15 years later MH
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we have nine homes how many children have we C 131 every time you come it's more isn't
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it 131 kids we got in now the age from four um to 16 and a half coming up 17
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lucky enough we haven't got any that's coming out too soon that's another
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conversation which we'll have but um first of all what about these children they're not necessarily orphans are they
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and it's difficult for them because they're not in the same position as other children it's it's been one of
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those very difficult thing over the 15 years that we've worked with M small and I've run M Small is trying to get this
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across to two people that support and help us our kids are under court order
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they're lifted from by social services and then courts etc etc and then they
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put out to these homes the group that looks after us as much as em as as when
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emails did are Guardians so anything that they do anything that we want to do
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has to be by the book by the course um before the kids can do
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anything so they're protected basically they're so protected argument it could be over
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protected um there's no stories we're not meant to tell you where they are um
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there's never obviously pictures on difficult to to promote as well if you can't take pictures of the kids at least
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enjoying themselves for a change it's hard for you to kind of get that message across to people and say well you know
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we can't take pictures on we can't show them we can't take you there even you know it's it's a very difficult thing to get and over the years so many people
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have said oh you know I want to do this and I want we've had professionals teachers what have you say a hairdresser
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doesn't it you know ask you know can we can we come and help and then it's not something that you're able to take on we
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we can do I think where I've used the bed Center as well is I suppose having
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that business for so long now people know that we are established in as the as a business so that's probably allowed
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people to think well what he's saying about these kids homes must be true and people that donate and people you know
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you think it you know it's I'm not saying about Charities but some things that could be a scam or something you
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know you think yeah we certainly know it's legit yeah it's legit and and we've got the Spanish G number which registers
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us as as an official ch we have the bed Center as its as its uh location the G number so everything is
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legit within the thing and I think that's what's helped us to be able to use the business as well as well and
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that's what we based make a smile on it was about local people and local businesses doing something in you know
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in our area I know there's lots of needs all over the planet but you know the
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community yeah something starts at home if there's anything left over then let's put it out for but where we are here we
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can actually do something with these kids which what can we do then I was
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going to wait for that otherwise you're going to wrap things up all too quickly I I wanted to talk a little bit more
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about the children because the the the tough thing here is that you're striving to keep these children going basically
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at times you've been having to feed them to keep them alive for goodness sake you know things are a little bit better now aren't they because the you you are
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getting support to feed them the up to five years ago under the LA under
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email once when emae collapsed and such it was basically between us and the carers the carers were working I I had a
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meeting with some of the carers yesterday and they were actually saying if it wasn't for you guys and the community that had supported us through
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that time it was who was what was going to happen to these kids because it went for about six seven months of the carers
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weren't being paid um we were putting in the food which is a disgrace really when you think about someone's putting in
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food to feed these kids and we we remembering old stories about I can remember going to one of the homes and a
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cook saying thank God you turned up today because otherwise these kids weren't going to be fed the national
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company that took us over five years ago they are you know they are they've stabilized the whole thing the car is
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now are being paid the food actually goes in um you know the homes are stable
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and the group are stable they are a big National company and to the point where they can actually wait for their money
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to come from the government they've got that sort of support and and and that Financial backing that they can keep the
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thing going but it's all still on Basics yeah everything else is a is is everything else is an extra is a total
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extra all right we'll come back and talk a little bit more tony here from make a smile and we'll also talk about the
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latest appeal which is coming up soon our good friend Tony Grande is with us
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from the bed Center and the makeer smile charity and and we were talking about the children just before we now know
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that at least the charity that is funded by the government is able to provide food on a regular basis you know the
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accommodation is there there's still a lot that's lacking and a lot of things that you do throughout the year to
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basically look after these children who have no other way really of being looked after and you've got a couple of things
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the charity shop starting to work really well not just starting it has to done now it's been working very well charity I've got this fantastic couple that R
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the charity shop barara and and and denn carrier and and they've got an amazing team and it's it has just been touched
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with it's just been so successful they've worked so hard at the thing um and what it's allowed is because it's
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generated in a monthly income it's allowed us to long-term plan with the kids where before when we were sort of
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fundraising we would raise ,000 spend ,000 and then then you know
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we're into waiting for our next fundraiser where with a charity shop it's allowed us to then and say well we
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can actually take on out of school activities we can take on extra education which would would you know
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make a small has always been about education it's it's it's the only answer to the to the problem sort of thing is
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is to help people out of the situation they're in by so they don't come out 18
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and go back into what theyve originally taken taking care of so the chry shop where is it it's down the bottom of
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tilala on the bottom roundabout I believe it's number two on the on the on the corner there there's the main strip
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on the main strip on the Main Avenue right at the very bottom there where the where the roundabout is there's a shop
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on the corner that sells um fires and it's been there forever we're the next
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next shop up signs are out there it's easy to see us they're on the Facebook and I'm sure they take donations all the
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time as well they take people have been so good with backing our the charity shop and it's what you know make a SM
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was never designed as in a Tim rattling charity give me money give me money we've always said which is an example
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for the kids you've got to work hard for your money and then appreciate what you do get so m a smile the original idea
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was m a smile was always what could we actually generate out of goods first out of things that people didn't want
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anymore yeah back in the day you had your own little farm and the kids were planting and making and growing their own stuff which of course not allowed to
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do anymore that did happen in the back in the day when trying to feed them that was phenomenal self-sufficiency project
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we had all the kids working up there we had the handicap kid mentally challenged youngsters were working up there um and they all done
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what they were capable of doing and the more important it was they were growing their own food yeah you know and it was
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that Pride that that was in them as well and selling as well we all bought the eggs they
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were naming the goats and the chickens as well we had a couple of chickens from and Bob bought a couple of chickens
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and named them and then they gave us so many eggs and and it it just worked so well of course these days are are gone
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now um well it was a bit of a gray area we didn't we weren't didn't have a farming
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license um but it was just helping to support and then you get health and safety that come in and then they said
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we weren't allowed to stop uh we weren't allowed to sell the eggs and veggie bags
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so we did that was a great area what we what we were doing was saying to people we will give you this veggie bag free
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would you make a donation and that was legal but to actually say it's € 10 for a bag
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illegal these things come and go don't they in ways to sort of help the charity the like you say the charity shop now
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has established itself and is working very well of course you've always had some great support from the likes of the quiz kns as well haven't you fantastic
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we have a a couple to run up quiz nights and and uh DK andan isn't Derk andan that's right in fact the next one is six
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of uh six of next month that's going to be our Christmas six of December where the quis nights Tony they're over in
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helon yeah on the back of helon and I can't think this what's name at the moment I bet they listening to me going
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oh he's forgot the name it's Lo Amigos Los Amigos is the bar um and it's
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normally on a Wednesday night and I believe it's on the 6th but it will be on our Facebook if people go on and make a small Facebook it will be there so
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just to reiterate if you're clearing out your house getting ready for Christmas room visitors yeah pop all your stuff
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down to the make a smile charity shopo yeah clothes Bricker Breck um anything that that that's good quality but you
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don't want it anymore and the people do money for you throughout the year as well all sorts of different things there's been skydiving I know there's
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coffee mornings all sorts of things coffee morning skydiving like you say the the quizzes um we we're lucky we get
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some of the big groups the groups have been affected over the brexit thing a lot of the big groups now that that that
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as was before a lot of the English people now have have gone back to the UK
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um so the groups have been smaller but they still affect they still help and support us the Rotary Club uh kelpy I've
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just had a phone call from them and uh over the year when they meet when they have lunch they've been putting part of
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the money for the lunch away so they've just donated €650 wow um or we'll do next Tuesday
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I've got to meet them next Tuesday um I'm seeing the heavier players tonight after I leave you guys and they have
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raised 500 EUR from their plays so it's so many people the bikers are always
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there as well aren't they with their support too the bikers I'm seeing the bikers I believe it's on the 17th of of
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December and they this is why he doesn't work at the bed Cent yeah yeah well I was once to bik a babe for make a smile
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I but the guys are all turning up in a bar in Mar just as you get into Mar and they would all be N Out with a father
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Christmas outfits and girls make a smile is the reason why I'm on Bay radio cuz
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Noel I had to cover for Noel with Bob and yeah Noel organized and went on the
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biker babes and they said can you sit in with Bob so it was a very special lady now she said certainly was we have a we
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have a tree up in reals a yeah we have a tree up in reals and I'm not I don't
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know if people know this and Noel made a special little door fairy doors a fairy
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door and it's down the bottom of oh it's it's down the bottom of the garden there
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and when the kids are really a little bit Aggy or any problems they go down by
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this tree yeah and they tell their problems to the tree and they believe that the little ones beli the fairies
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are in there and they plant little flowers around and every now and then the guy that's one of the guys out there
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changes flowers so the fairies have had like made a new guy for those that don't
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know Noel Noel used to work at Bay radio with husband Bob and Noel is sadly no longer with us but was a big part of the
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make a smile charity so um the bikers will be doing their usual business this year yeah yeah they're going to come
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around they're going to turn up in their father Christmas said they're going to get us um we're looking for the the
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problems with the houses is especially the big ones the old ones the El air reels they're very cold houses they're
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very old they're old to Manish thinkers and you just can't afford to heat them and if you did have Heating in them just
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go through the roof it would just go through the roof and you know what have you so gym jams um we've been asked
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we've been asked from meetings with the carers kids need slippers gym jams big fluffy socks fluffy socks track suits
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anything that would War gear yeah gloves woolly hatsy brilliant and also um we do need
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underwear so if anyone's listening nowy and they want to buy some warm um things
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for the children have you got drop off points I know we're going to do the Christmas bag appeal in a moment tell
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Tech over in Mara um El um cads here the little bar that's in in in there all the
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English people know them or people know um there's the charity shop our charity shop the make us smile and
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or the bed Center or contact us at INF
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makers. and just say I'm in such and such a place the van is running about all the time so we can always meet
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people pick things up um or we can tell them where their closest their closest
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drop off any particular ages that you're short of stuff yes it's between between
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8 n years of age M and uh 16 we have got list we've had a made up okay I've got a
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lovely lady here in in in in Havier ker that that's that's also out with a load
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of friends looking for pajamas and and what have you and I got permission to give her a list of the sizes of the kids
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so any groups that listing or any people that we can say it's boy girl such and
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such a size that's all the information we're allowed to give out okay um but we have got that in the office so they can
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always contact us info@ makers smile. poping the bits Center um maybe if we
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could get the list we could maybe Chuck it on the bay radio Facebook page for you as well we could can that and it's
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just girl boy and size and so eight to n particularly in age 16 are the Des
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between that gap which nothing's ever going to go to waste no if it doesn't fit one kid it will fit another and what
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we Tred to do at Christmas is if we it doesn't doesn't matter how much we get in because then we can't have storage
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we've just had two kids come in um that come in with the clothes they stood up in so now there a panic you know have
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you got we buy these veles apologies that wasn't me I just
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break into song There we buy these vouches um from car 4 yeah and we keep
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them in the shop so when we get that situation I caring something so I've got a kid or two kids that have just come in
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and they're standing up in the clothes that they've gotten we've just had two youngsters that have come in and um from
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rails and they came down got some VES just to take them out and buy everything
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they need sort of thing so beles are always good um CH the Christmas appe
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pill what we're doing this year you're going to get on to that I'm waing he's got button on he's got the panic button
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got Panic Buton ejection SC turn him off he's going to Waffle I'm going to play I'm going to play some adverts and a
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song and we'll come back and talk about the Christmas appeal still be here Callum Rosy's Friday feeling catching up
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with Tony Grande from the make a smile charity so we've been talking about how money is raised throughout the year we
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understand now that at least the government charity is funded well enough to be able to provide food on a regular
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basis and and pay the carers but of course nothing else then
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that's that's pretty much all you got everything else really is extras yeah you were just talking about the things
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that you need for especially the houses that can't be heated because they just doesn't pay to eat them so they need
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warm clothing and warm gear but of course this well summer is a difficult time you know when you have the summer
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holidays we talked about that last time you were here but of course this is a particularly difficult part of the year
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for these children who have absolutely nothing and you've got Christmas on the horizon Christmas is a nightmare time of
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year for for us really it's a time of year like you say summer is always bad you got 131 kids in our group that what
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do you do with kids for two months you can only take them to the beach so many times and and buy the amount of food
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kids eat as well well it's but Christmas Christmas is a nightmare for
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these kids it's it's it's the time of year that you're in a home you haven't
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well you have got a family and that's that's basically the problem but all of our kids have been taken as we said originally from court order out of
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hostile backgrounds so it's all sort of different forms of child abuse and and and horrible things but then Christmas
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being in a home you know we don't have this in England anymore or even Europe I've of friends that are German most
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most kids are in private homes now and private foster homes they don't they
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don't have this big old houses where you sort of instr you throw these kids El's
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got 30 30 kids in it at the moment in time and Christmas is that time I suppose the other guys at school the
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other children it's sort of all mom's bu me the dad's by me that we're going here we're going yeah and you know and oh you
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live in a home don't you and our kids are really embarrassed about living in homes you know that they never they
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never bring their mates home I never forget that story tone you said about the young girl that went to school and
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she went in some clothes that had been donated to her and she was pleased as punch and she got to school the next day
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and it was a student at the same school that had donated them she got oh you're wearing my clothes and that absolutely
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broke my heart she went yeah she went back to the house she wouldn't go she would go back to school it's just always
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been that way and it's it's it was one of the reasons why we opened the charity shop because as was before there was
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generous people donating but the clo would come in in black bin bags so if
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that went into the home it was sort of there's my donation in a rubbish bag
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yeah and then the carers would actually said and this is one of the reasons why Barbara and Dennis run our our charity
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shop come up with this idea of let's put that buffer in between us yeah you know all the clothes can comeing to the
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charity shop still they team of ladies sort those clothes out so if anything
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that's good that can go to the homes play clothes and things like that will do the rest of it will go into the
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charity shop and that way we can sell that we can buy vouchers or we then take
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that money where we can actually say to kids we're going to buy you something new you know we're really hard on the
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kids as well you we don't make it easy the kids have to work to get sort of the
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Stars to get what they want charity is a wonderful thing but it's not the answer
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either you've always been about educating UC kids to try and get them
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into into a sort of situation where they can help themselves later well our nightmare is 18 years of age mm you know
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once you're 18 law states you can't be in these homes so you're out on the street now you're so protected when you're inside that that home especially
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because I'm the court order you know you can't go far you don't have outside contact they they're not allowed
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internet or or Facebooks or anything probably more so than than kids in in normal sort of stages so like you know
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they're more protected they're in their little bubble if the kids go out if the older kids go out they're out for now and they have to report back in they're
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not allowed phones um the the there's no internet that they can use within the
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homes just basically as well our kids the biggest problem with our kids is that that what they don't have in life
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is love and that's what makes them dangerous because it's not just the bad
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guy that's out there and vulnerable it's not just the bad guy that's out there it's our kids that are living are
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looking for that love yeah and love is a dangerous thing if it's turned into they
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can mistake it they can make mistake it exactly and these are the sort of problems that most of those kids have left you know from when they've come out
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of when they've come hes and 18 you have that that massive big rejection where if you've been in that home SAR a little
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girl that came out last year she hadd been in the home since she was four and um 18 we so we've got no more contact
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with you you're out the home law states you're not allowed to live here and it was there only family that she knew you
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know she went down to Ali County it all went desperately desperately wrong we were just saying off here and we got a
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phone call one night she actually ended up living back with her mother and grandmother and we got a phone call one
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night saying get me out of here you know and Lucy picked her up brought her back to to L again the charity shop sponsored
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we paid 4400 I think it was a month and put her into a Spanish home with a nice
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Spanish family and now she's working yeah our kids only want that chance in like anybody it's not about giving them
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a hand out it's about giving them a hand up yeah that's that's sort of the the the key to the to the thing what's
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happening this Christmas with the make a smile appeal because it's it's changed hasn't it since because covid you
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weren't allowed to take any presents in anymore good and bad covid they said we're not allowed to take presence in
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we're not allowed to give presence in so we open up an account with Amazon and what we said to people was you can put
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money onto our Amazon account or you can put money into pay pill which again is all contactable by Mak smile and we said
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that the kids can all can have €40 for their Christmas holidays so they have
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Christmas they have two weeks off school and um LR is D the Kings now two
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separate events really forish they have separate presents one for Christmas day
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one for Los R some of the older kids could maybe have a smaller present and not allowed cash they're not allowed
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cash but we can actually give them something that they want but they could choose we gave them the choice and said
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you up to 40 a budget um the little one in right off the center so it's a big
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thing for them because it was what we got before from the community was amazing we'd get bags and bags of stuff
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in and presents yeah but we never gave a child of something they asked for they
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always they wrote to s for something but it was always something something else which they appreciate because the chice
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was something else or nothing you know that's your choice but this way actually gave and it's so this is the positive
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side of the co thing where people don't buy presents anymore but if you donate and it worked very very well and then
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people could you know just donate what they can afford MH so it's it's and it was always away when we've got our
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presence in we have the carers come down to the bed Center um they then choose
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Gemma orders all our presence in it all goes into separate boxes they come down to the bed sent I think it's on the 21st
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22 nember pick up the presents they will have a couple of hours with us and um it
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just brings that little bit of magic back to saying that we also like lots of
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sweeties so I'm I'm going to run the listeners how they can help um you can
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visit Amazon online and search for E regalo enter the amount and add the email info@ makeas smile. so head over
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to Amazon buy an e check and then send the details to info@ Makers smile.
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you've got a PayPal account so you can do a simple PayPal transfer um we are accepting donations via transfer or
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PayPal email info@ makes. es and you'll send them all the bank details details
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or buy your own gift or buy your own gift we're particularly looking for warm pajamas socks slippers smellies
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underwear underwear anything that that is is school relevant school supplies cuz that's obviously station is a great
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station brilliant pens paper the the the pencil cases anything like that that's
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usable the kids will get their toys or the younger ones will get toys through
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through the Donate from from allowing more practical things yeah we've always been about practical it's a present but
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you can we've got school back in January which is feminine hygiene products always a good one feminine hygiene
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bottles of gel shampo you going to say bottles of gin then yeah that's for me
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Christmas Wonder yeah once I'm actually you allowed to slap in a bottle of gin for Tony once
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I've actually done it and if if we managed to do it t would manage to do it Christmas is I have nightmares about
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these kids you know that don't have nightmares we're going to help so smellies bottles of gel shampoos cuz
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they're really expensive aren't they hair products our shampoo comes in in like a five liter okay it's a green big
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plastic Bott deer it off and and you know you get the girl especially the girls 14 15 years of age and to have a
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bottle of shampoo which belongs to them yeah when you live in a house with 30 kids we've got toothbrushes tooth my mom
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went on a one woman Miss ended up with about a thousand we got two two flashes for the next so if you're going to buy a
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gift can I just run through the drop off points okay so if you want to buy something specifically teenager stuff
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we're looking for pajamas warm clothes smellies anything like that hair gel
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gift sets drop off points are the bed Center cowpe we'll put all this on the bay radio Facebook page for you Tony
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Amigos make a smile in ta your charity shop CA card Javier tetch marira SL
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print on Dar okay and of course you can always go to makeas smile. you'll find all the details there
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the website's been revamped looks brilliant I have to say look good not have much to do with it um and there's
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the Facebook page as well I was saying that for the people that do it otherwise you get in trouble because you haven't
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mentioned you haven't mentioned this or you haven't mentioned me or or or what have you just tuned in and you've missed
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all of that and want to help make a smile we'll put all the details on the bay radio Facebook page make a
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smile. is the website so head over there can contact Tony and find out more if
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you ever had a problem with any of that make a smile the bed s k it's where it's based okay if you put the bit pictur of
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andr of Tony you yeah this is you can always contact J Luci at the shop and
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say tell me about make a smile or send me some information if you ever get lost with with make a smile itself all the
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detail will be up on the bay radio Facebook page as well Ros you will sort that out Tony great to see you you're doing a fantastic job as
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always you have a goodas everybody that helps you know and we do hope that you get your dressing gown and your slippers
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slippers and just a nice chill out I'm going to make it my mission to get you your gin your slippers and your dress
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once Father Christmas has gone to the kids then then then I'm out that be fine that' be my Christmas present thank you
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Tony lots of love thank you so much
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