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more Folk Festival and a rant about street collections
The final day of Wimborne Folk Festival was as much fun as the previous two. Henry joined Richard and myself 
and we collected like mad.
I took a half hour break to join one of the sing-around sessions (after running the collecting tin around first), but apart from that, kept collecting for most of the day.
In the early afternoon, I came across a woman with a bucket collecting with for the Domino appeal (a local charity). I politely explained to her that she was collecting without a licence and that she should stop doing it. Steet collections have to be licenced by the local authorities and they never allow more than one in the same place at the same time. The Folk Festival had the licence for the whole weekend. She duely vanished.
I got quite angry when I caught her two hours later, still collecting. She was showing various papers to people which identified who she was and said she was a collector, but none of them were valid to allow her to collect in Wimborne during the festival. It came out that she actually had been sent there by a fund-raising organisation.
Now, I *work* for a fund-raising organisation, but the one I work for would *never* send anyone street-collecting. CMF know the law. If I go out recruiting members for the Wildlife Trusts, I have strict instructions never to accept cash. It's illegal. Even if people spontaneously offer it to me, I politely decline.
I've written to the charity in question to let them know that the people acting on their behalf are collecting illegally. (It's also likely that the woman was getting paid, though she denied this. I've no beef with her getting paid, a lot of charities employ paid collectors as they can't get enough volunteers, but it's breaking the law if you tell people that you aren't paid)
Just for the record, I get paid to recruit members for the Wildlife Trusts (and also do some voluntary work for them clearing rhododendron), but collecting at the Folk Festival is a weekend of unpaid work which I happen to enjoy greatly.
and we collected like mad. I took a half hour break to join one of the sing-around sessions (after running the collecting tin around first), but apart from that, kept collecting for most of the day.
In the early afternoon, I came across a woman with a bucket collecting with for the Domino appeal (a local charity). I politely explained to her that she was collecting without a licence and that she should stop doing it. Steet collections have to be licenced by the local authorities and they never allow more than one in the same place at the same time. The Folk Festival had the licence for the whole weekend. She duely vanished.
I got quite angry when I caught her two hours later, still collecting. She was showing various papers to people which identified who she was and said she was a collector, but none of them were valid to allow her to collect in Wimborne during the festival. It came out that she actually had been sent there by a fund-raising organisation.
Now, I *work* for a fund-raising organisation, but the one I work for would *never* send anyone street-collecting. CMF know the law. If I go out recruiting members for the Wildlife Trusts, I have strict instructions never to accept cash. It's illegal. Even if people spontaneously offer it to me, I politely decline.
I've written to the charity in question to let them know that the people acting on their behalf are collecting illegally. (It's also likely that the woman was getting paid, though she denied this. I've no beef with her getting paid, a lot of charities employ paid collectors as they can't get enough volunteers, but it's breaking the law if you tell people that you aren't paid)
Just for the record, I get paid to recruit members for the Wildlife Trusts (and also do some voluntary work for them clearing rhododendron), but collecting at the Folk Festival is a weekend of unpaid work which I happen to enjoy greatly.
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<img src="[URL]" width=100%>
I think that works, I'm not sure if it has to be less than 100% to take account of the left margin of the friend's page, or whether clever lj works that out. Try it and see.
Personally I prefer to make pictures a less narrower than the text anyway, on aesthetic grounds:
<img src="[URL]" width=70% align=center>
(this version also centres the picture with respect to the text)
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Yes, and the real snag is that it doesn't just affect this item, all 25 entries on the page have now adjusted to run over about 150% of the screen-width...
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Very cute picture, anyway, and also hedgehogful. Sounds like a great event, apart from the collection annoyance. :)
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It's now replaced by one a quarter of the size. Is that better?
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I'm very glad you've had such a good weekend, and been able to join in with so much of what went on.
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As it's Wimborne, I collect, but I enjoy it just as much. It's our local festival; we know the town; we've got to know the people who run it; we just like the atmosphere.
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Silk Scarves
I love wearing them and the more colourful the better.