A foggy and nippy Sunday afternoon did not keep these four GoodGymers at home including first-timer, Mar! Welcome to GoodGym and it was great meeting you! 😁

In fact, Anna and Julia were busier bees than Sam was today. 😲 It was their second mission of the day as they were at St. Faith's first helping out GROAD over there with 3-5 drop offs and preparing the room for the Open House for the refugees to come and take what they desire. Although, they arrived at Old Alleynian Rugby Club thirty minutes later, Sam, Mar and Katherine only had one drop-off and it was by one of the rugby coaches, Helen, who was present as her under-18 girls team were playing on the pitch. 🏉

Noticing the lack of drop-offs and having Ian (the Green Team volunteer coordinator at Old Alleynian Rugby Club) needing our help with removing ivy from a tree, we all decided to help him out for 45 minutes. We used loppers, sheers, a rake and our bare hands to tear away at the ivy that was engulfing this tree. Underneath the ivy, was an old, but fairly healthy looking tree trunk! 🌳

As soon as we were finished, we noticed Katherine talking to a lady who had a whole car load of donations, so we rushed over to help her out. She had donated plenty of baby and children items and as she was finishing off her drop off, we had another lady bring various items including an old analog TV and DVD player! 📺📼

We said our goodbyes to Anna and Julia whilst we waited another five minutes or so for the GROAD van to appear, so that we could load all the donations onto Andrea's van. Another successful session, but we hope more locals would use this drop off location in the future.