Each year the Red Cross liaise with the City Livery Companies to collect money in the City for their very worthy cause on a day in May. The selected day was earlier this week, with a somewhat varied weather forecast!
The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators had three volunteers to help this year – the Master, the Thames Warden (Mike Williamson) and the Walbrook Warden (Mark Lane). Mark Lane had the early morning slot (trying to catch unsuspecting workers on their way to the office), the Master had the lunchtime slot (trying to catch people as they popped out for lunch) and Mike Williamson had the late afternoon slot (trying to catch workers heading home).We all reported to the Mansion House to collect our buckets, rolls of stickers and our licences and set off at our allotted times with other Livery Company representatives for a two hour slot. The early morning and late afternoon slots were pretty dry, but the lunchtime slot was intermittently wet!
I managed to team up with the Master Constructor and we settled on a pitch on the North side of London Bridge where we made a pretty good pincer movement of encouraging passers-by to part with their cash! As any of you who have taken part in street collections will know, this is pretty hard work and after two hours we were pleased to return to the Mansion House and sit down!
This was a fun experience and for an extremely worthwhile cause. Many thanks to the many passers-by who contributed.
Photographs show the Red Cross logo and the Master on his return to the Mansion House with his heavy and rather damp collecting bucket!
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