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ACCOUNTANCY ACCOUNTANCY ACCOUNTANCY ACCOUNTANCY AERIAL SERVICES APPLIANCE REPAIRS Swindon author creates
S J BAKER ACCOUNTING LTD pre-school curriculum for Gambia
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS CJD Lynette White MAAT Chris Payne Swindon-based children’s author and world-wide champion of chil-
S J BAKER FCCA ACCOUNTANCY LTD Accounting Services aerials dren’s literacy Neil Griffiths is marking his ninth year supporting pre-
Self Assessments 17 YEARS EXPERIENCE & satellite systems schools in The Gambia with the development of a special curriculum
Limited company set up Craig Dell FCCA Book keeping - Sage Line 50 to help young children to maintain the joy of their cultural heritage.
Contractor and Company Accounts Over 20 year’s experience for all your VAT Returns ✭ Freeview & Sky installations Guaranteed
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Corporation Tax • Self Assessments • Sole Traders Sole Trader & Ltd Co Accounts
Tax Returns
Bookkeeping and Payroll • Partnerships • Limited Companies Personal service for small businesses ✭ Home cinema all makes
* FIXED FEES * NO VAT * • Available evenings and weekends Competitive prices ✭ Extra TV & telephone points of domestic
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* AVAILABLE EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS * • First consultation free Mobile: 07877 950625 NO VAT
TELEPHONE: 01793 495559 Tel: 01793 343255 M: 07557 399987 Email: [email protected] Same day/next day service
MOBILE: 07717 752116 Email: [email protected] Lynette White is licensed and Tel: 01793 700078
email: [email protected] www.cjd-accountancy.co.uk regulated by the AAT under Mobile: 07904 330724 Tel: 01793 469300
licence number 5014
APPLIANCE REPAIRS BOOK-KEEPING CARPET CLEANING CARPET CLEANING CARPET CLEANING CLEANING

HALE SKILLS Can’t face Abacus Cleaning Services THE CLEANING &
• Washing Machines doing the books The Carpet & Carpets, Rugs and IRONING SERVICE Neil with children and teachers at one of the schools he sponsors in The Gambia
Fabric Upholstery
• Cookers after a hard Upholstery Cleaning Specialist Hard Floors Cleaned & Sealed Carpet & Upholstery House cleans from “The children in the Gambia face because there are no funds to run
Cleaning Swindon
£16 per house.
• Dishwashers day’s work? • Carpets, rugs, curtains, suites etc Carpet & Upholstery h Domestic and Commercial Around £26 for a 4 bed. hardship every day,” said Neil. them. It costs £9,000 a year to keep
• Dryers Call Leonard Fuller, • Emergency call out available Protection Treatments h End of Tenancy Cleaning Weekly, fortnightly “However they have some wonder- a school for 230 children open. It
• Vacuum Cleaners A.I.C.B, • Hard floors cleaned and sealed Insecticide & Anti-Static Treatments h Stain Removal or monthly cleans. ful values which sustain them and isn’t a lot really, but it does need a
which we could learn from.”
commitment of at least ten years to
• Stain removal • Protection treatment
Over 30 year’s experience qualified bookkeeper • Fully insured Spot & Stain Removal h Hard Floor Cleaning & Sealing One-off Spring cleans The curriculum emphasises local have any impact.”
with over 20 years’ Fully Insured, h Quality Products Used traditions such as dance, mask- On a recent trip Neil encountered
Ironing £16 per
‘Nick’ll experience. • Quickly usable NCCA member h Quick Drying basket, collected and making and growing plants, with a man who proved to be a natural
You’ll be amazed how affordable it is
Fix It’ ....call for your free estimate from your Independently owned & operated h Free Competitive Quote returned the next day the aim of enabling children to get teacher of pre-school children
Tel: 01793 700637 To arrange for a free estimate call h Fully Insured the most out of their daily lives and operating out of very dilapidated
Call 07963 131429 or 07963 637748 local independent on 01793 731418 01793 421802 Mobile: 07506 740921 Call 01793 875665 experience. accommodation. Neil said: “The
or mobile: 07808 355487
e.mail: [email protected] www.bookkeepingswindon.co.uk Email: [email protected] www.abacuscleaningswindon.co.uk www.procleancleaningservices.co.uk 07780625244 As more schools in the Gambia rooms this guy was using were so
have expressed an interest in the scabby, but he’s such a wonderful
curriculum, the education ministry teacher, that I’m afraid I’ve prom-
CLEANING CLEARANCE COMPUTER SUPPORT COMPUTER SUPPORT GARAGE DOORS and a local teaching college have ised to build him a school too.”
become keen to roll it out nationally. Neil’s experiences in the Gambia
Homes That Computer problems? However, as Neil explained, there have also shaped what he writes
Sparkle From Let us help are not enough resources for this to and teaches, with his Gambia-
People Who Shine We provide a range of computer Installation & Repairs happen. He said: “In the Gambia inspired book Fatou Fetch The Water
services for both home and the government funds education having been selected as the key text
Affordable & reliable cleaning business including: New Doors • Automation from age 7, so pre-schools are set for the UK National Summer Read-
programmes, tailored to meet • PC repairs and maintenance No Obligation Quotes up by volunteers, some of whom ing Challenge 2012.
your needs and budget • System upgrades, networking Est. 1981 have worked their socks off to help In his training programmes for
Regular cleans, Spring cleans, Skips are never this cheap • Custom built computers Showroom: develop early years education.” teachers and carers, Neil’s Gambian
Moving in or out cleans View our prices online • Windows home server installs Maxwell House, “I have fully-funded one pre- reflections have led him to urge
Trained and insured staff • House clearance • Rubbish removal • Virus removal Maxwell Street, school for 250 children myself, others to think differently about
Equipment and supplies provided • Sofas and furniture • Shed removal • Data recovery Swindon SN1 5DR and have provided the resources what education is for. He said: “We
Quality Service Guarantee • Confidential waste • Internet solutions Tel: (01793) 618499 for five other schools to carry out need to stop all the external pres-
Call us now for free, 0800 6899988 or 07563 181500 With over 15 years experience, or 513796 the curriculum. But now we need sures on children. In the Gambia,
no obligation quotation email: [email protected] you can rely on us swindondoorservices@ to find ways in which resources despite the poverty, they share in
such as costumes, masks and a way that would shame us. We all
Tel: 01793 511885 www.absolute-rubbish.co.uk Tel: 01793 325685 btinternet.com www.garagedoorsupplies.co.uk weighing scales can be made or need to learn how to use the joy of
adapted locally, creating jobs in the our country.”
GARAGE DOORS LOCKSMITH MADE TO MEASURE OVEN CLEANING OVEN CLEANING SCRAP METAL meantime.” www.cornertolearn.co.uk
Neil is very conscious
KEY CUTTING KEY CUTTING KEY CUTTING of the importance of
SWINDON RODDERS sustainability, having
OVEN SCRAP visited the Gambia a
number of times and
CLEANING Ovens, ranges, agas, hobs METAL seen the consequences
extractors and microwaves
Electrical Automation • The Domestic Oven Cleaning Service Fixed pricing examples All metals removed of the actions of well-
meaning people who
Up & Over • To book your Single Oven £35 - Range £55 FREE of charge are unable to continue
Transform your favourite furniture with
Roller • BROKEN OR FAULTY LOCK? tailored covers or complete refurbishment. oven clean call Maggie No hidden extras, Washing machines, cookers, maintaining schools.
LOCKED OUT?
Sectional • Local Locksmith and Carpenter A huge range of fabrics to choose from. on 01793 520362 includes racks, doors, glass microwaves etc. He said: “The Gam-
20 years experience
Repairs • Not a call centre with huge charges! For a free quote by a Specialist Advisor in the We use caustic free No toxic chemicals in your home Sorry no fridges or freezers bia is full of buildings
that were intended as
Genuine 24hr service comfort of your own home call Penny on: cleaning products with Reliable & Friendly Scrap cars collected FREE of charge schools, but stand empty
07799 865 935 / 0208 681 1831
Free Quotation
Unit 2, River Ray Ind. Est., Barnfield Road, Swindon SN2 2DT Call now on 07734 253189 www.lynplan.com & www.greatcurtains.co.uk a fresh solution every time To book your oven clean call 01793 613396
Tel 01793 878176 Registered Company Neil holding his book Fatou
Email [email protected] CRB Checked/Fully Insured Hobs, extractors and 01793 733822 or email: 07899 018167 Fetch The Water based on
www.dimensions.org.uk KEY CUTTING KEY CUTTING KEY CUTTING microwaves also undertaken [email protected] Registered waste carrier a child’s life in The Gambia
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