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Wheelchair
Woodturners has always wanted to stand on its own two wheels (or
four or legs) to achieve this we must sell our work. ALL of
the money raised goes back into the workshop or is used to outreach
to other folk or communities.
There are
various way that we raise funds. The first is that we are
lucky enough to organise our own little Craft Fair in the Glasgow
Botanic Gardens, this has now been going for about three and a half
years and is a regular event in the West End of Glasgow. We
have a varied group of crafters and most of them have been with us
for some time now. All profit from the hire of the tables is
paid to charity, mainly Marie Curie Hospice Glasgow, 2008 we
contributed £500 and in 2009 we will have contributed in excess of
£700, £500 going to Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow and £150 to North
Lanarkshire Cancer Care trust, these folk organise a service which
collects cancer patients from their homes and takes them to their
appointments and then runs them home again. A further donation
will be made to BLESMA in the new year (2010)
Click here to Visit the Craft Fair Page to see
the dates
 INTERNET
SHOP
This is
something new for 2010, we are selling items from this website. Just
put the mouse arrow over the " OUR ONLINE SHOP" and then pick the area
you are interested in.
Each item
is hand crafted in the Wheelchair Woodturners Workshop and because
we can only make items when feeling up to it, there is never going
to be a huge volume of items for sale. Any wood that is used
comes from within a Fifty mile radius of Glasgow and is good SCOTTISH wood(IF ITs
WOODEN!), which in
my humble opinion is the best in the world. There are some
very small things we make from imported wood but this is limited to
things like tiny handles for the draws, this wood is not purchased
by us but is from donations of wood, wood types like Indian
Rosewood, Ebony, African Blackwood, all of these we have in VERY
small pieces. The majority of the wood is ELM, ASH, BEECH,
OAK, some birch and a smattering of fruit woods like PEAR, APPLE and
CHERRY, ALL GROWN IN SCOTLAND AND NONE HARVESTED, its all windblown
or taken down for safety reasons.
Every item
coming out of our workshop will be certified as made in Scotland and
will have a description of the woods used in its crafting, as well
as the name of the Artist who made it.
Every item
will be individually photographed and then added to the catalogue,
when sold that item will be marked as such and will be posted out
within two working days.
Payment
will all be through "PayPal" and in this way our clients can be
assured of the security of their details, please read our privacy
policy
(Privacy Statement)
Wheelchair Woodturners NEVER see your card details and we
never give out an address, telephone number or email address.
20% of ALL
PROFIT FROM INTERNET SALES WILL BE GIVEN TO CHARITY
So we will
see how that all goes in 2010, however as we no longer do a second
craft fair, we feel that there will be a hole in our fund raising
for Marie Curie, to this end we have decided that 20% of all profit
from Internet sales will go to Charity, this in addition
to the Botanic Gardens money.
WHEELCHAIR
WOODTURNERS IS A NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANISATION
Profit from
ALL sales goes to the workshop and to charity
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