Bob A Job? Who Remembers This?

[piggynose]

Does anybody remember this?
If yes what jobs did you do for a shilling?
I asssume if its still around today it would be job for a quid.

[Vagus]

Before the pandemic, there used to be buckets by the tills, and a boyscout or girl guide helping you pack, for a donation into the bucket. I say helping, more often squashing as much as they could into each bag resulting in deformed bread, broken eggs, etc. I paid them not to help!
I don’t think Bob a job has been around for quite a while.

[Vagus]

Ended in 1992 apparently.

[JJ109]

When I was a scout (a long time ago) just the usual jobs of going to the local shops, sweeping paths, sweeping up leaves, and probably the commonest polishing shoes.

[Jackdaw33]

It was stopped a good few years ago. There were fears it could be a green light for paedophiles.

[aelmpvw]

peeling a bowl of potatoes circa 1960, she got her shilling's worth! :-)

[bobbinwales]

Yes, people called me Bob a Job Bobb. We used to be out from 9 till 5 knocking on strangers doors. Sometimes we ran errands often crossing busy roads, sometimes we weeded the garden or swept paths, sometimes were invited in...a remember polishing someones golf clubs and trophies. Looking back it shouldnt of been allowed to go into strangers homes (and am not sure why are parents and cub leaders allowed it. Sometimes it was slave labour- like the time we spend a whole day gardening and got 15p each. At the time we genrally enjoyed it tho and felt proud we'd done good turns and raised funds

[piggynose]

Looking back it was type of exploitation.
I rememeber polishing silver. It took ages and what for? 6d.

[dannyk13]

Remember it well, cleaning up gardens, running errands etc.

[piggynose]

* A bob not a tanner.

[Lie-in King]

I remember it well - on one occasion, a nice elderly couple that I was acquainted with through my paper round (always got a good "Christmas Box" tip from them) asked me to clear the end of their garden of all the overgrowth. It took the best part of a day, but they gave me sandwiches for lunch & £5 for the work - a fortune!

[bhg481]

I think the idea of Bob-a-job was that you earned money by doing something USEFUL. The current trend is to ask to be sponsored for doing something which, whilst needing effort, is useless eg, walking a distance/swimming etc.

[piggynose]

What time of the year was it? I ask cuz i'm sure i had to clear a lot of snow one year.

[bhg481]

Wasn't it usually Easter?

[dannyk13]

L-i k // £5 for the work - a fortune!//
Was that one of the big white notes?

[Lie-in King]

Danny - white fivers were a just a bit before my time :-)

[dannyk13]

:-)

[teacake44]

My first memory of getting money, ( not so much earning it) but supplying. Sunday was the big cooked dinner day for the whole family, only if the money stretched to such.
All the tatter, carrot, cabbage, pea shells, peelings were put into a bucket, and we would take turns in who took the peelings down the road to someone who kept pigs and chickens in the garden, they would give us 2/3 old pennies for them, depending on how much was in the bucket.

[piggynose]

The white sky diver(£5 note)ttt speak. Went out of circulation in 1961.

[piggynose]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/bob-job-rebooted-scouts-go-back-work-7742343.html%3famp

[Macljane]

I remember the Scouts and Cubs visiting for Bob a Job. Some people asked these children to do large jobs, e.g. doing the garden, and then paying them 1 shilling. Something that would have cost a lot more if an adult had done it and charged.