Orinoco Update
12th September 2007
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What Happened to the Summer?
The nights are drawing in but Orinoco is prepared. We have been scouring
Britain for new scrap and have swapped with Bristol, Swansea, Swindon,
Watford, Portsmouth, Southampton and a host of other scrapstores to make
sure that indoor play needn't be boring play. We've got new supplies of
netting, sticky neoprene bits, quality fabric, gold & silver card, rolls of
paper, sheets of paper and interesting plastic things to fire your
imagination. All the latest Scrap is online at:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/oxorinoco/ScrapCatalogue |
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Get Your Skates on...
We've got a load of brand new In-line skates in men's sizes 9 to 12.
They've been sitting in a warehouse for a bit judging from the fashion sense
of the people on the box but they're dead good. They're quite snug so don't
be put off if you're a size 8! £10 each (what a bargain) or cheaper if you
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Tiles, Tiles, Tiles...
Lots of very nice ceramic tiles have just come in. Most are being sold as
scrap but the bigger ones are 50p each. Please remember, if we can see you
really want them we'll put the price up so keep your poker face on at all
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Membership Cards
A number of our new members are still waiting for their membership cards.
Please accept our apologies for this. We are in the process of changing the
membership card design and this has taken far longer than anticipated. The
new membership cards should be ready and in the post within the next
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Swap Shop
The next swap will be on Saturday October 13th (the second Saturday of the month
as usual). Turn up and leave stuff, turn
up and take free stuff or do both. Usual time, 11 to 4. Tell all your
friends and
download
the poster. [www.oxorinoco.org/swapshop/]
81 people came to the Swap shop on August 9th. We took in around 205kg of
goods and had collected 100kg in advance. The swappers took away 185kg of
stuff that would otherwise have been binned. All these lovely items are now
enjoying a new lease of life. |
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A.G.M. - Tuesday October 16th
The Annual General Meeting of the Oxfordshire Scrapstore, known as
Orinoco (registered charity number 1041798), will be held at our HQ, the
Bullingdon Community Centre, Peat Moors. OX3 7HS at 7pm on Tuesday October
16th 2007.
The scrapstore will be open late, there will be a funky free art
workshop, a free bag of scrap for everyone who comes and food. Please come,
join in the fun and find out how Orinoco has been doing over the last year.
You do not have to be a member to attend the meeting but you may not vote
on the business of the meeting. Each individual member or nominated
representative of a member group or institution has one vote at the meeting.
Votes are not transferable. Group members may send up to three
representatives to vote. Institutional members may send up to twenty
representatives. The names of representatives being sent by Group or
Institutional members must be received no later than Tuesday October 2nd. |
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