Please save your used stamps!
	One of our new fund raising ventures is used stamp collecting – just the run of the mill, everyday stamps that we all get several times a week can be turned in to money.

Ideally stamps should be torn or cut from the envelope leaving AT LEAST half an inch of paper around the entire edge.  Anything closer and the stamp loses its value when we send it on.  Torn or disfigured stamps are of no use.
 
Any stamp has value, but the more unusual ones will earn extra for us. For example, the Post Office recently issued everyday stamps depicting Beatles albums covers. These didn’t cost any more than the face value of the postage, but they are more valuable to collectors, just like the Christmas versions that we see every year.  If you buy this type whenever possible, rather than the single colour plain stamps, it puts more unusual ones into circulation, and hopefully more of these will find their way back to us!  Foreign stamps are especially welcome.
 
When you have a reasonable amount collected, please hand them in to us at jumble sales, any of our fund raising events, or ring us up on 0845 371 4209 and maybe one of our volunteers live close by to collect.
   
So start collecting! If you have access to an office, think about getting some sort of collection going there, the more the healthier we can be for the cats and kittens we care for.