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Donations update

Thank you to everyone who has donated stock for us to sell in our charity shop. Your support is really appreciated. The donations have been so generous that we are absolutely full. Please keep any donations until after 18 May but check the blog for a further update of when we can start accepting donations again.

And please spread the word – the quicker people buy from us, the quicker we can restock. If you use Twitter follow us @MeopotamiaCha5. We regularly share some of our more interesting items for sale such as the wedding dress below.

Donations Welcome

We opened last Monday, in line with Government regulations, and have been delighted to be busy in our shop again. As you know, monies raised go towards delivering food parcels to local people in need.

Thank you for holding onto your donations whilst we have been closed – we have had many enquiries. I’m pleased to let you know that we are now accepting donations in our shop. No appointment needed. Our opening times are displayed on our contact us page.

If you have larger items that you are unable to deliver, we can start booking appointments and collect from the end of next week. You can use our contact us form or phone and leave a message. Please let us know what you would like to donate and your address.

Vantastic News!

Regular readers will know of our recent transport issues. We haven’t been able to collect donations since our van was involved in an accident in November and our volunteers have had to use their own transport to deliver urgent food parcels.

I am delighted to update you that we now have a van! It’s a bit larger than our previous van and meets all our needs. So a huge shout out to Castle Cavendish for their generous contribution towards the van because without it, the insurance pay out was insufficient to replace our desperately needed transport.

So look out for us in the Basford area and give our driver a wave.

We’re Opening!

Were delighted to confirm our charity shop will re open on 12 April. Thank you to all our supporters who have been buying stock through our Ebay account and we look forward to seeing you face to face soon.

Also, thank you to our supporters who are keeping goods to donate but please email or phone us to arrange a mutually suitable time to drop off your donations, as we can’t accept all in a day!

Give a Little Love Success

Following on from last week’s blog post I’m delighted to confirm that Mesopotamia raised over £1000 from our eBay auction. All of this money will go directly into our food bank to support local people in need.

Give a little love

You may recall, a month ago, we told you abut our Ebay auction. I’m happy to update you that, with four days to go, we believe that we are on track to raise our target of £1000.

We have had a lot of interest in many of the lots with £150 being our current highest bid for a mulberry handbag. But if your budget is modest please be assured we have many bids around £1.99.

We are promoting items with our new Twitter account. Please click on the above link to see details of this and how you can access our auction.

No Delivery this week

We are very sorry to have to cancel this Saturday’s food delivery (6th February) but we have had a confirmed case of COVID amongst the volunteers. All members of our team have been tested and fortunately, only one person from the team has tested positive but the law states that we all need to self isolate for ten days.

Deliveries will resume on Saturday 13th February.

Food parcels

We included the following letter in 50+ of our Christmas deliveries but are sharing in our blog as we received a couple of enquiries from people we had supported.

2020 was a tough year. We are in hope that 2021 will be much better.

We have done everything we can to get food for you, and we are hopeful of being able to do so again soon. But after the parcel of food, you will receive on Saturday 9th January 2021 we cannot guarantee being able to repeat that yet.

We are already looking at new arrangements to get support and we are always thinking of alternative ways to access food and funds.

Sooner rather than later, we aim to be doing more of what we do. For now, here are some contact details of places that might be able to help you. Mention that you have been getting support from Mesopotamia when you get in touch.

Nottingham City Council Customer Hub 0115 9155555

Nottingham County Council 0115 854 6000

Derby council 01332 293111

We are beyond sorry that this is how things are. And we are as confident as we can be that they will change, and you will hear from us again.