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As our COPSE Auditor, John Diamond, has quite rightly picked up in our Club accounts of recent years, we have a “Small Hostels Fund” that has been sitting unused.  Partly, it has remained dormant owing to the effect of “Lockdown” on the YHA and our nearest and dearest hostels.  However, we are about to Spring into action with a work party to Holmbury St Mary.  This hostel’s fortunes have changed but revenue from its overnights still feed back into the YHA.

John D. is kindly joining our little band of brothers and sisters to carry out some “grounds beautification” that the new managers have requested.  We would like a couple more bodies to join our work party, please!  This is planned for Thursday, 29th May, staying for a free overnight to complete anything the next day, leaving the hostel on Friday, 30th May.

I took these photographs of a few of us working at Holmbury on one of our previous sessions that I’d organized there.

This is your chance to become part of a new, happy group enjoying a refreshment break!

For any further information – and to sign up for our 2025 endeavours! – please contact me a.s.a.p. and I can provide fuller details.  Transport from the Croydon-ish area is offered for the trip to the hostel and back.

A good deed is waiting to be done.

Ireen Best (07968 035522)