To me Christmas has lost its meaning, the values you are taught as a child soon are seen as a hypocarcy one generation telling another how Christmas should be but in reality they themselves don’t even follow through. Well this is what I once thought but having seen through the general mass of people rushing about their business seeing nothing beyond their own nose their children’s Christmas list you occasionally see the decent people who are obscured by all the others those who go out of their way to ensure others suffer less, a prime example of this and one close to my own heart is the Douglass McMillan having cared for a dying relative over the Christmas period I have nothing but respect for those who volunteer their time in order to ease another’s suffering. Having not enough time to set up a meeting with the nurses and volunteers at the hospitals and care homes i looked at those who are equally important but usually overlooked charity shop workers.

This is Jane Brough in her own words she was worked with the charity as a Volunteer for a “few months” she really enjoys working with the charity and it gives her great satisfaction.

Much of the charities income comes from donations of clothes and other items which are then sold off asking Jonathan Harris (pictured above) how the “credit crunch” has affected donations he says that rather than hinder the amount of goods coming in he has noticed a significant increase in goods although actually monetary donations have dwindled.

Mrs Shirley Myatt a volunteer for 3 years showed me around the stock room downstairs and pointed out the huge piles of donations that coverer the undersized room and explained to me the process of sorting out the good from the bad, how that those things deemed in to bad a condition to sell is recycled and the quality stock is the cleaned and sent upstairs.