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[mottman]

Have a hand in raising awareness - the HJC wristband

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In an effort to raise awareness and much needed funds, the Hillsborough Justice Campaign has designed red wristbands in the style of the yellow Lance Armstrong cancer awareness bands and the blue BBC anti-bullying bands. The first 5,000 bands should be ready around 26th February, 4,000 of which have already been pre-paid / ordered - these will be sent out as soon as they are received.

The remaining 1,000 bands will be available from the HJC shop once they are received and these have been reserved as cash only purchases.

Another re-order of 5,000 bands has already been placed with delivery due early March [or possibly sooner] due to the intense interest already generated.




The price of the band will be £1.00, but if you would also like to make an additional donation to the HJC, it would be greatly appreciated.

The bands will be available from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign shop which can be found opposite the Albert pub at the back of the Kop.

The Hillsborough Justice Campaign
PO Box 1089
178 Walton Breck Road
Anfield
Liverpool
L4 0RG

Telelphone 0151 260 5262 [between 10.00 and 14.00 week day's only]

For Saturday 3pm kick offs the shop opens at midday, with the opening time changing on other Saturdays depending on the time of game. The shop is now also open through the week from 10am to 2pm, except on a midweek match day, when it will close for a couple of hours and then re-open around 5pm.

For those who are unable to make it to the shop, you can send a cheque/postal order made out to The "Hillsborough Justice Campaign". Make sure you include an extra £1.00 for postage and packaging if your in the UK and £2.00 if you're outside the UK.

For overseas based supporters I'd suggest you visit your local Bank and request a "Bankers draft" made out to The "Hillsborough Justice Campaign". Make sure you include an extra £2.00 for postage and packaging if you are based outside the UK.

Banker's drafts are usually somewhere between £ 5.00 and £ 25.00, Paypal looks a good bet!

Please ensure that all cheques/postal orders are made payable to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and NOT Gerry McIver

A message for supporters who have prepaid via cheque or postal order, or in some cases cash? Please note that none of your payments / donations will be presented for payment into the HJC Bank account until the bands have been delivered

At this moment in time bands will be available in adult size only. To secure your order from the 2nd batch of wrist bands and to speed up the order process, you can send orders direct to Gerry who runs the shop at his home address as he will be able to deal with requests straight away.

His address is:

Gerry McIver
6 Boycott Street
Everton
Liverpool
L5 6RU

Please note these bands won't be available until sometime early March 2005.  NEVER send cash through the post to anyone as this may go astray.

If you would like to order in "BULK", we suggest you contact the HJC direct so they can evaluate how much the postage will be. The email address is:

justice_4_96@yahoo.co.uk

You can use the following link to pay by Paypal

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

The HJC's bank account is   justice_4_96@yahoo.co.uk

Don't forget to include a note with your full name and address with details of how many bands you require.

Please note: the HJC Paypal account has just under a hundred e-mails on it that have been rejected because the sender's have been identified as having a virus on their PC.

Paypal automatically scans e-mails for virus's etc and rejects them accordingly. It's unsure if the sender receives an automatic notification that the e-mail has been rejected. The HJC will not be able to reply to those e-mails to advise them there enquiry has been rejected, I understand you can confirm your Paypal transactions

Can you please ensure that your PC is virus free as your Paypal order / donation / enquiry may be rejected.

Here are the two versions of the HJC wrist bands that have been produced, please feel free to print these out and pass them to your friends.

800 x 600 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scott.wroe/hjc_800x600_a.jpg

1024 x 768 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scott.wroe/hjc_1024x768_a.jpg

1600 x 1200 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scott.wroe/hjc_1600x1200_a.jpg

800 x 600 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scott.wroe/hjc_800x600_b.jpg

1024 x 768 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scott.wroe/hjc_1024x768_b.jpg

1600 x 1200 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scott.wroe/hjc_1600x1200_b.jpg

Please feel free to copy this onto any suitable web site that you may visit.

For more information on the disaster and the campaign for justice, visit the Hillsborough Justice Campaign's website:

http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough

Your continued support and generosity is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[mottman]

The last of the first order for 5,000 bands have been posted out today, there are no more bands available until mid-March when the next order is due in.

Around 2,000 - 2,500 bands from that order have already been prepaid, I'd get your orders in ASAP to make sure you get yours.

[mottman]

Paypal orders are going APE at the minute, I hear the whole team are gonna be wearing them on Sunday [not 100% confirmed] other plans are well a foot to raise maximum awareness.

My advice, get your orders in whilst you can?

[mottman]

The wrist band supplier forwarded around 500 bands today [The last of the first order] these have been posted out today and includes Paypal orders up to and including 27th January 2005.

I think any orders placed after this will be included in the second order [due mid March?]

[mottman]

Liverpool may have lost against Chelsea but the players did not let the fans down.

A special mention must go to Steven Gerrard and John Arne Riise, who wore red bands on their arms throughout the game.

The bands are a gesture of solidarity with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.

With modern day footballers coming in for a lot of critism for being out of touch with supporters, it was great to see these players fully appreciate the Liverpool fans and not ashamed to show it.

Phil Smart, Fairfield

From tonights Liverpool Echo.

[mottman]

The bands haven't been delivered yet, Sheila Coleman has been in touch with the supplier and has been advised that the bands are on the way to the UK via ship from the far East. 

As far as I'm aware they could turn up anytime.

[mottman]

Here is a copy of an E-mail received from the wrist band supplier.
Dear Hillsborough Justice Campaign

We apologize for the delay. I have contacted the shipping agent in China. He said that the boat will arrive on April 7th and the products will be shipped to Liverpool on April 10th. You don't have arrange to get the goods from Southampton to Liverpool. The shipping company will do it. When the products are arrived to Liverpool, an agent from the shipping company will give you a call. If you bring the invoice,packing list, and bill of lading to clear custom on April 10th, you should be able to get the products on that day.

The production was done on March 2nd and the products were sent out for sea shipping on March 3rd, but the shipping company could not put our products into the March 5th boat because the boat was full. They postpone our products to the earliest boat schedule of the next week which was March 10th.

Your 2nd order is in the process of inspection. It should be ready within two days and ready for ship out.

Again, we are very sorry for the delay.
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Please bear with us folk's, we are trying our very best.

Thank you

Robbie

[mottman]

1,000's of bands are now in the post with 1,000's to follow within the next few day's or so.

I don't know the turnaround dates for people who have recently ordered bands, yesterday/today for instance over 200 orders have been received via Paypal and Gerry has received a fair few hundred orders.

Please bear with us and we'll try and get them sent out to you ASAP.

Ta

Robbie

[mottman]

The team of volunteers have been busy this weekend and many thousands of back orders are either in the post, and or will be by tomorrow morning.
It is hoped that the backlog of orders will be cleared within 7 - 10 day's. Please bear with us we are trying our best.

Thank you

Robbie