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Peter Clapp collecting for the appeal |
Applause for Mr Clapp’s record poppy sale effort
IT’S been a giant effort that the British Army would be proud of – and one that has raised thousands of pounds in a fortnight for the annual Poppy Appeal.
Camden Town architect Peter Clapp is celebrating smashing all records for selling poppies, after being upset at not being able to find one to buy near his home three years ago.
Mr Clapp decided to take the matter into his own hands and the result is a bumper collection for former servicemen and women.
He said: “I couldn’t find a poppy seller in Camden Town. There used to be lovely old gents who sold them, but for two years you could not get a poppy anywhere.”
Mr Clapp contacted the Royal British Legion and began selling them himself.
He set up a pitch outside Sainsbury’s on Camden Road three years ago and raised £3,000. The following year his efforts raised £11,000.
But this year he has smashed all expectations, and is on schedule to raise the whopping sum of around £70,000.
Mr Clapp, whose son is a major in the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and returned from a tour of Afghanistan at the beginning of the month, has enlisted his own army to help out. He found volunteers from University College London’s cadets who are part of the college’s Officer Training Corps to cover King’s Cross and Euston railway stations.
He added: “I am absolutely over the moon.
“It just proves the public will give to this if they can find poppies to buy.” |
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