Upchurch Poppy Appeal - 2020

Covid-19 has affected fund-raising in the charitable sector this year.

The Royal British Legion’s response early on was “stand down” its house-to-house collections during Remembrance-tide in 2020 across the nation as this activity involved a high level of contact. This was a significant change to the traditional method of distributing poppies. Your local collectors in Upchurch look forward to returning to duty in 2021. Nevertheless this year poppies were available nationally in supermarkets, stations and many retail outlets etc. The Legion also enhanced how donations could be made electronically through mobile phones or its website e.g. scan QR Code below.

My thanks to Holywell School, The Crown PH, The Brown Jug PH, The BarnYard Restaurant, Snaffles, the Golf Club bar and shop, the Co-op, Cost cutters Newsagents and the Church for making poppies available in the village. I will publish amounts raised in a future article.

Many of you also ordered Poppy Appeal items through me and I am able still to supply poppies, 2020 poppy pins, VE75 pins, car poppies etc.

Next year, The Royal British Legion will celebrate its 100th anniversary.

“WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”

Hon. Ald. Gerry Lewin - Poppy Day Appeal Organiser 

Telephone: 01634 366113 - 07946 996789

Email: lewing135@btinternet.com