I heart BODEN - read this and see how blimmin generous they have been :-)

[eandh]

As you may know TrinityRhinos dh died in August and a small request to buy some shoes turned into a very loving, giving thread to help Trinity, another Mumsnetter (sleepwhenidie) suggested that maybe we could sort getting TR a present for her and she has been hankering after this coat
for over a year, I started a paypal fund which currently has around £470 in it and thought I'd cheekily email Boden to ask for a discount on the coat and this is the most fantastic email reply I received today

'Dear Michelle,

Thanks for getting in touch, Trinity is very fortunate to have such good friends.

We would love to give you this coat for Trinity, plus a £50 Boden gift voucher for each of her daughters and step sons.

Please let me know which size and colour you would like and I'll get the coat ordered for you.

Best wishes
Josie'

How bloody fantastic is that!!![grin
now means all the money raised can go to TR in vouchers to help try and make this Christmas a little more happy for them all

wow! thats amazing.
nice work boden!!!!

countess - thankyou but to be honest its been lovely doing it and have enjoyed it

Trinity and I were on same antenatel thread (dd2 was 5th jan 2007 and gecko was a late arrival iirc february in the end) so it hit home a little harder when I read what had happened to TR and looked at my dd2 sitting on dh's lap

ah how lovely, well done Boden

well done eandh for organising!

Wow!
3 cheers for Boden!

That's amazing. Well done eandh.

and for eandh

£635 in paypal now

woahhh - fabulous

lend us a tenner trinity

I never thought I'd say it..., but really...

Hurrah for Boden!!!

that's lovely.

eandh, you may want to rethink the child modelling though - my friend's dd did some work for Boden and ended up standing in a freezing London park in mid-winter wearing summer frocks that had huge holes chopped out of the back by someone who took samples of the fabric. Sounded very odd indeed!

I just showed DH the OP.

He said "very good, but I still dont' like Johnnie".....and has grumped off to bed.

Well done Boden, and eanddh.

thats very good

Like a number on this thread, I am a Boden virgin....well was, till the weekend when I went to a Boden clothes party.

TRINITY - that coat is sublime

I know it's a drop in the ocean for Boden £-wise, but gives me a fuzzy warm feeling that behind the website, there is humanity.

Well done eandh.

Wow! Well done eandh..now get writing to Tesco - maybe we can get them too add to the vouchers we buy?

Got to be worth a try?

nice coat

so i take it boden is now officially the shop of mumsnetters!!

i'll certanily be shopping there from now on. what a lovley thing to do

very well done eandh
excellent

good old johnie, thats really really nice of them, i thought they might give the coat free but to give all those vouchers too, well that really is generous.

nice coat too, i like it in conker.

my dd loves boden stuff, so i will be getting more now

I am so impressed with Boden, am going to purchase the lovely checked shirt for DS that I wrote off as too expensive last month (maybe you should send them the link to this thread?)

maybe just maybe I will

Now if you get anything like that out of Tesco I really will be AMAZED!

What we need is a Tesco manager who posts on mumsnet

last comment was maybe I will write to Tesco

I have already linked this thread to josie at boden with my thankyou email

well done Boden and eandh, that's very nice of them

yes Mr Boden - thank you so much for being so generous to our friend

Blimey - that has really cheered me up. I shall never slag Johnnie and his hundreds of catalogues off again

Bloody hell.

Well done eandh

Well done Johnnie and his crew

Well done everyone who's ever been on a thread loving or hating Boden. That's why we're on their radar and why they're doing this.