Seven schools have a reading corner. The committee agreed twelve.

Not for a store Saturday and not for a clean up morning. Reserve a place and turn up for either of those.

An island trip needs the briefing first, an hour in a group of ten or fewer. It comes before a first trip rather than after it, because otherwise a new volunteer finds out what the rules are while standing in somebody's school.

To a clean up morning, yes, with a parent who stays for the whole morning. The shallow water part is optional and supervised by two adults who can swim, nobody goes past their waist and nobody dives for anything.

The store takes twelve and over with a parent. Island trips are sixteen and over. We cannot supervise children and we will not pretend that we can.

Tell the office as early as you can. Nothing is charged and nobody is told off.

Boats, food, gloves and bags are counted from the list, so a place nobody uses is a place somebody else wanted and a cost we did not need. That is the whole of the reason we ask.

Yes. The office will write a letter saying which days you attended and how many hours, with a reference on it, and that reference can be checked with us by whoever you show it to.

What the letter will not do is describe volunteering as employment or as a placement we supervised professionally, because it was neither. We also do not pay volunteers or reimburse expenses.

By bank transfer to the account on the donations page. Send the reference to the office and a receipt comes back with our own reference on it, usually the same day.

There is no card payment here and nothing is collected on this website. Nobody from the foundation will ever ask you for money in a message you did not start; if somebody does, it is not us and we would like to hear about it.

Yes, by setting a standing instruction up at your own bank and telling the office so we can match the transfers to a name. It works well and it costs us nothing to administer.

We cannot take a recurring payment ourselves, because we have no mechanism for one, and we would rather say that than build something we cannot run properly.