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Speaker 1: Today, I'm at Camden Park where they do a lot

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Speaker 1: runs the place, the Community Center at Camden Park. Nick,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your time. Tell me a little bit

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Speaker 1: about what goes on here.

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Speaker 2: Camden Community Center is a duel in the crown of

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Speaker 2: the communities in the Camden region. An environment where it

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Speaker 2: gives people an opportunity to come and socialize, come and

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Speaker 2: meet other individuals, come and be part of our men shed,

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Speaker 2: come and be part of our op shop, and an

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Speaker 2: opportunity in general terms, to be able to get an

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Speaker 2: appreciation of what community means. And that's really the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to get together away from the hustle and bustle of

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Speaker 2: general life, tone down a little bit, and generally an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to socialize and speak to other people at large.

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Speaker 1: It's so important, isn't it. We sometimes forget that, and

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Speaker 1: people who are used to being alone, after perhaps they

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Speaker 1: finish work or the families moved out, lose perhaps that

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Speaker 2: There is that importance of connect and the ladies here

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Speaker 2: realize that. I think the federal government has realized that

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Speaker 2: through It's just program social support program. It realizes the

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Speaker 2: need for as long as people are able to socialize,

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Speaker 2: as long as they feel comfortable about things, there's lesser

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Speaker 2: opportunity for them to seek alternative assistance such as nursing, home, environment, etc.

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Speaker 2: So the stay at home aspect of where the Feds

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Speaker 2: are coming from is a great idea and it encourages

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Speaker 2: people to get out more often and feel comfortable about

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Speaker 2: living in their own environment. And really that's a great

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Speaker 2: thing to do because if a person can live independently,

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Speaker 2: then they're not a burden on the state or the people.

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Speaker 1: At that gentle, let's talk about the off shop you

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Speaker 1: run primarily here and that's around the corner. So we're

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Speaker 1: in Carlisle Street at Camden Park Clean Cultony. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it quite an operation just driving by it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is. We've got the community hall there which

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Speaker 3: is used during the week apart from when we use

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Speaker 3: it for our sale days. OLP Shop is open three

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Speaker 3: days a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday ten till two and

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Speaker 3: the first Saturday of every month. We do the food

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Speaker 3: donations we collect people come in with sometimes with dry

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Speaker 3: food and clothes that's all sorted in the storeroom, priced

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Speaker 3: and put out into the shop, and the volunteers do that.

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Speaker 3: In the mornings, we make up all the food parcels.

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Speaker 3: They normally get bread, rolls, pizzas, cakes, and any dry

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Speaker 3: foods that we've got that we can do and obviously

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Speaker 3: meals that we're making in the kitchen or have been donated.

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Speaker 1: How do donations work? And people, if they've got packaged food,

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Speaker 1: dry food obviously would be ideal.

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Speaker 3: They just drop them off at the opp shop, or

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Speaker 3: if the op shop's not open, I'm sure the center

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Speaker 3: would accept any dry food. We have a lot of

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Speaker 3: donations just dropped off. We don't know who they are,

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Speaker 3: and they know what we do and they just drop.

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Speaker 1: Off dry food. Isn't that wonderful?

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Speaker 3: It is wonderful.

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Speaker 1: What about volunteers for the op shop? Do you need

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Speaker 3: We do need more people, yeah, because at the moment,

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Speaker 3: I think we've got seven or eight volunteers over the

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Speaker 3: three days. They don't all do three days, so only

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Speaker 3: do one, which is acceptable. Will take anybody if they

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Speaker 3: want to do one hour. It's lovely that some people

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Speaker 3: just want to come in for an hour, but we're

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Speaker 3: always looking for volunteers just to cover everybody so they

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Speaker 1: I ring your role in this as coordinator of the Commonwealth.

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Speaker 4: Scheme common Wealth Home Support Program, so we have people

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Speaker 4: here group social support on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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Speaker 4: About fifty clients a week we provide group social support.

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Speaker 4: We also in desperate need of volunteers, so we have

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Speaker 4: vacancies in our kitchen, so that's always greatly appreciated. We

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Speaker 4: provide meal for that program, but we also welcome volunteers

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Speaker 4: who want to work helping giving social support to clients.

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Speaker 4: That's always really appreciated as well. Being able to do

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Speaker 1: Is an older area, established area, so you must have

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Speaker 4: We get our fair share of referrals so we can

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Speaker 4: always I think it's a combination.

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Speaker 2: Camden Camden was an old area. Certainly got a newer

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Speaker 2: group moving into Camden, but there is an older group

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Speaker 5: As long as.

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Speaker 2: They're enrolled with the age, they're welcome to come and

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Speaker 5: We'll pick them up if.

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Speaker 1: What's the history here and how long has it been here,

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Speaker 1: how long has it been operating.

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Speaker 2: Since the early seventies With the support of the Greek

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Speaker 2: Orthodox community of Franklin Street, Camden's been focusing on its

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Speaker 2: core business. One of the focused points of courses what

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Speaker 2: we do well, chess program, the opshop and the men shared,

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Speaker 2: but clearly expanding the outreach programs have been one of

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Speaker 2: both state and also.

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Speaker 5: Local government to expand that to as far as we

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Speaker 1: It, okay, because there are a lot of bit obviously

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Speaker 5: Have a lot of all yeah and Healy Bette as.

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Speaker 1: Far as that. So the demand must be huge, really.

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Speaker 2: Astronomical, and it is, I guess humbling in some respects

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Speaker 2: that you don't realize how many people are in need

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Speaker 2: out there in the general community and we're only touching

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Speaker 2: and they're willing to support because I guess they're basically saying,

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Speaker 2: if they're trying to do it, they'd have to pay

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Speaker 2: people to do it, and it will cost a huge amount.

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Speaker 2: Whereas we value not only the clients, but we value

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Speaker 2: our people that actually go out that the volunteers, and

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Speaker 2: that's why there's a call for volunteers. The more we get,

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Speaker 2: the less burden that is on our existing group, because

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Speaker 2: then we can keep doing.

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Speaker 5: It and keep expanding the programs.

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Speaker 2: If we had a call on if a person was

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Speaker 5: Would be absolutely the a goal mine for us.

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Speaker 2: It would be an opportunity for us to b then

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Speaker 5: And it is the rewarding experience.

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Speaker 1: I continue that tell me a little bit about that

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Speaker 3: Will for me. It's just meeting people and listening to

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Speaker 3: Some of them come in three days a week and

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Speaker 3: they only come in. They don't ever buy anything. They

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Speaker 3: a general chit chat with everybody. It's just the company.

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Speaker 3: But I get a lot of joy out of that

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Speaker 3: because you know, you're helping people. People have always helped

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting, isn't it that longing for someone to

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Speaker 1: and just say good a. Essentially, that's right.

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Speaker 3: And we've always always there's always food if people come in.

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Speaker 3: Had a young man come in yesterday, he just moved

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Speaker 3: into the area, got two children, got nothing. We gave

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Speaker 3: him food, passels. He didn't have any plates, any cups.

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Speaker 3: We supplied that at no cost. We just try and

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Speaker 5: It's amazing, wonderful.

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Speaker 1: So all right, Volunteers is what I'm getting is the

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Speaker 1: most important thing here. You need as many as you

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Speaker 2: It's a combination of volunteers programs. There is a vision

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Speaker 2: here keep supporting those in need. We continually do that,

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Speaker 2: but we also do need volunteers to be able to

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Speaker 2: continue that because if we've got a program in place

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Speaker 2: if we do have volunteers being able to support the

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Speaker 5: We need drivers. We've got the vehicles, but we do

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Speaker 2: We've got some people that can assist, but we need

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Speaker 2: more people to put parcels together. If we're able to

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Speaker 2: increase the number of support programs or packages that we have,

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Speaker 2: then we're able then to apply for more funding to

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Speaker 2: assist in some people that are able to support these individuals,

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Speaker 2: in other words, a social worker or two social workers

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Speaker 2: that they're able to get direct assistance rather than going

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Speaker 2: five months. So we're trying to get that direct support

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Speaker 5: They can't wait three or four or five months.

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Speaker 1: Talking of vehicles, in the fact, you need drivers, you're

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Speaker 2: You've got it through the support of state government and

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Speaker 1: So that obviously will be really helpful and instrumental in

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Speaker 2: And of course that would be the objective. One of

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Speaker 2: the objectives, of course, is to win their trust. That

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Speaker 2: is a priority. In other words, well we're here forever

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Speaker 5: Then, slowly but surely we're looking at, especially in the middle.

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Speaker 2: Of winter, having a suit kitchen on a Wednesday, for example,

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Speaker 2: there are one party or one individual that we meet.

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Speaker 2: They go back into their door after they receive their

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Speaker 5: So it's good.

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Speaker 2: To be able to get them out and then meet

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Speaker 2: meeting other people too.

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Speaker 1: Web you run the Men's Shed one of the programs,

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Speaker 1: and the Men's Shed. Tell me a little bit about that.

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Speaker 1: What are you offer there?

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Speaker 6: We have three different groups as a Monday group, a

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Speaker 6: be the supervisor for Tuesdays and Thursdays. We offer a

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Speaker 6: lot of companionship. We make a lot of product which

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Speaker 6: gets sold for the money that comes in, all of

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Speaker 6: it goes into the community center. Even if we buy

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Speaker 6: something ourselves that we've made, we still buy it. It's

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Speaker 6: just a great program. We come in in the morning

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Speaker 6: about nine point thirty ten o'clock. We will sit down

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Speaker 6: for a cup of tea and a chat. And it's

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Speaker 6: great because I saw the guys. We can talk about whatever.

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Speaker 1: Do you need a bit of skill in woodwork?

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Speaker 6: We train everybody. But everybody that comes in goes through

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Speaker 6: a training session with every piece of equipment, how to

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I know talking to Janety puts things on

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Speaker 6: The guys make whatever they want to make. We get

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Speaker 6: selling for four dollars each. I've got one in my

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Speaker 1: Apart from the making and the feeling great about what

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Speaker 1: I'd be good at that.

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Speaker 6: It is great, honestly. I've been here now for nearly

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Speaker 5: That's what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Good on your bob, great leading it today.

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