Plea for tools to help veterans
Chipping Sodbury Rotary Club has been supporting Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) for several years and has been collecting old carpentry or engineering tools, or electrical tools (without batteries). We have collected many donations and delivered them to the Bristol centre in Warmley where they have been processed, polished, sharpened and renewed – all being packed into complete tool kits to send to Africa. These are given to students to enable them to take a technical college course, or to young entrepreneurs to enable them to start a small business.
We now have news of a new initiative started by TFSR. It’s called A Building Kit for Building Heroes and it’s designed to help Armed Forces veterans to get back into work after leaving the Services – specifically into the building trade.
So now we would like to hear from anyone who can offer builders’ tools such as brick bolsters, cold chisels, masonry drill bits, hammers (brick, lump, sledge) mallets, pliers, shovels, spades, spirit levels etc. anything to do with the building trade. …..and by the way, TFSR is now also happy to accept old gardening tools.
We are happy to collect in the Kingswood, Warmley, Marshfield areas, so if you’re clearing out your shed and can offer any of these things, (carpentry, engineering, building, gardening) please call Clive on 0117 932 2673, and we will collect.
Marian Gilpin, Yate