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(1) OTHER SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES
(1) Radio Repair Service. This excellent work is now operated by Martin's
Radio Ltd., Edmonton, and we are grateful to Mr. Jolly and his staff for their
unfailing help and kindness in the repair of radio sets for old people.
(2) Easter Gifts and Harvest Festival Gifts. The Association are grateful
to the school children and their parents, for the wonderful array of eggs, fruit
flowers, vegetables, groceries etc., which they send us for distribution to the
old people. The many letters of thanks received at the schools show how much the
old people appreciate the kindly thoughts of the young people.
(3) "Budgies" for Lonely Old People. This is a new scheme that has already
brought happiness to a number of lonely old people through the kindness of the
members of the Edmonton Cage Birds' Scoiety. In thanking the Society for their
generous gifts, we also thankthe kind people who sent us cages•
(4) Gas Cookers for Handicapped Persons. In co-operation with the Eastern
Gas Board, The Broadway, Edmonton, we have dealt with a number of applications
for a special type of gas cooker for handicapped old people. This is a first
class scheme with little or no cost to many of the old people, and its importance
should be more widely known.
(5) Gifts of Material to Sewing Corner. Peggy Page Limited, and Gor-Ray
Limited, have been most generous in sending off-cuts of material for the Sewing
Corner at the William Preye Club, and we offer them our special thanks.
(6) Visits: Visitors & Lectures. The Association have received, during
the year, a number of visitors sponsored through the London Council of Social
Service and the National Old People's Welfare Council. We remember especially
the visitors from Edmonton, Canada; the young foreign students; the County
Secretaries on a special training course, the Mayor and Mayoress of Finsbury, with
the Town Clerk and Medical Officer of Health.
The Welfare Organiser has also given a number of lectures, by invitation,
on the work of the Association.
CONCLUSION
The Association, working through the Executive Committee, can be justly
proud of its achievements during the past year. With its wide representation
of interests, in the field of social welfare, they know of the need for these
services in the Borough of Edmonton, and their importance for the social wellbeing
of the people they serve.
Working together as a team for the common good, the Association and its
affiliated organisations go forward with confidence to face the problems of
another year, and by maintaining and expanding the services it provides, thereby
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