The side traditionally "bags" at any public event, if appropriate and permitted. The donations received are divided between running costs (hall hire, sticks and bobbins, etc) and a regular donation to a chosen charity. The following charities have benefitted from this munificence over the past years and the total sum donated is around £3000.
Keech Hospice Care | 2011 |
Keech Hospice Care | 2010 |
Alzheimer's Society | 2009 |
Great Wymondley Church Restoration Fund | 2008 |
Herts Young Homeless Group | 2007 |
Garden House Hospice | 2006 |
Woodland Trust | 2005 |
Garden House Hospice, Letchworth Garden City | 2004 |
Earthworks | 2003 |
Alzheimer's Society | 2002 |
British Heart Foundation | 2001 |
Earthworks | 2000 |
Amnesty International | 1999 |
Amnesty International | 1998 |
Plan International UK | 1997 |
Amnesty International | 1996 |
The Woodland Trust | 1995 |
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire | 1994 |
The Crescent Support Group | 1994 |
Action Aid | 1993 |
Garden House Hospice | 1993 |
St Albans Mencap for Young People | 1992 |
Noonan's Syndrome Society | 1992 |
Motor Neurone Disease Association | 1991 |
National Society for Colitis and Crohn's Disease | 1991 |