"Compassion" Ring Box by Kiteman

Last crawled date: 4 years ago

This project started when I saw an article on the BBC about the local police force;
An appeal to donate jewellery boxes so people who have lost loved ones can have items returned with "compassion" has been started at a police station. Posters were put up at Ely in Cambridgeshire asking people to donate boxes for rings, earrings, bracelets and watches. Family liaison officer Dotty Stott said she was sure it would make a "huge difference" to victims' families. "We deal with very, very sad events and in the process of that we return personal jewellery of loved ones to members of their family - that's usually done either at the hospital, or in our police property bags," said Ms Stott.
"And I thought that's not very nice or very sensitive, so I had a bit of a brainwave and I sent an email out to all our officers in Cambridgeshire asking for any old jewellery boxes so we can return property in a nicer way.
Ms Stott said through her own personal experience, she wished she had once received items with more "compassion" after losing a loved one, as opposed to "sign there for this stuff".
I didn't have any jewellery boxes, but I do have a laser cutter, and anybody with a laser cutter also has a few square inches of scrap plywood or acrylic. I quickly put this design together, and I'm putting it "out there" for anybody else to do the same; contact your local force, send them a link to this project, and offer to make what you can.
Construction instructions are here: http://www.instructables.com/id/RingBox/
The original story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33751749