Woodseats Venture Unit Postage

Was going to add this to the general cinderella thread, then I wondered if anyone else had some of these, so figured it deserved a thread of it's own.
This came in a batch of cinderellas today. At first I thought it was a British postal stamp then realize that the silhouette of Her Majesty was missing.



A quick google search turned up information about the postal service set up by this Scouting troupe in Britain.
This paragraph from their history page tells the story...

The Sheffield Scout Post was a fundraising service that started at Woodseats Venture Unit following a change in the law in 1981 which stated that charities could set up their own postal service. Unit leaders Pete Stevenson (now Sheaf District Commissioner), Roger Legge and John Hall decided that this could be a great way of making some money for the Unit as we were homeless and had no meeting place and so they took the opportunity to raise funds to help the Unit with its running costs. The service was a massive success and the funds raised went towards buying our HQ on Helmton Road where we still are today. After 20 years of members and supporters giving up their evenings and weekends to sort through masses of post and deliver it through all of South Sheffield and Dronfield (and often as far as Stocksbridge and Mansfield!), the workload became too much for us to handle and the service ended there. The Unit made a lot of money out of the Christmas Post which helped them keep running the whole time and are still living off the healthy bank balance this provided us with. We also donated an astonishing £150,000 to various charities over the 20 year era. Woodseats Venture Unit is renound for starting the Scout Post and items such as the WVU-branded stamps are often seen on ebay being bought and sold by philately fanatics and stamp collectors. Read all about it from a collector's perspective on these websites: norvic-philatelics.co.uk and johcra7.100webspace.net


Pretty neat, eh? Anyone else have some postal examples from these troupers?

Here are a few more examples!