We's bean busy!

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Colchester
Tav
Naomi Burke
Vanessa Crannis
Ella J
Phil Hitchins
1 / 6
Colchester

Friday 22nd May 2020

Credits
Tav
Tav

PHOTOGRAPHER

Vanessa Crannis
Vanessa Crannis

SESSION ORGANISER

REPORT WRITER

PHOTOGRAPHER

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Vanessa Crannis

Share the love

Six GoodGymers met at the Langham storage unit to help with the task of cleaning crates of cans for the Foodbank. The charity was in urgent need of bale crates to shelve the large volume of products being donated, in order to meet the high food demand caused by the effects of the Covid 19 crisis.
We first shifted crates out of the warehouse into a socially distanced open space. Then thoroughly cleaned the containers and the contents and stacked them for dispatch in vans to the central Colchester sites. Our remit was to sort and clean all shelf loads of 2021 baked beans, then move on to tinned meat. That was a lot of beans! But we rose to the task with the usual GoodGym gusto and spent over three hours with heads down, cloths in hand and a strong detergent to shift the nasty bits. There was the usual uplifting chatter with its not-so-usual miscellany of stuff. This morning included the joys and griefs of eating corned beef and spam, the hunting and scavenging techniques of hyenas and the constituents of a FODMAP diet. We all learnt some things! We were joined part way through by Andrew, Chair of the Trustees and other volunteers. Together we achieved a substantial pile of sparkly, ready-to-go bean crates. We loaded these into the van, then made sure disposable gloves and all cloths were safely binned before leaving the site. Michael (Chief Officer and GoodGym friend) was very pleased to have our help to complete this lengthy and overdue task. With 4,816 Colchester people benefiting from food parcels during Jan-April 2020, the items will soon form part of a sustenance parcel, to be collected or delivered to a needy household. Thank you all, for your hard work and good spirit. Especially to members who re-arranged their schedules or took TOIL in order to help. It's BEAN marvellous seeing you all!


This task supported
Colchester Foodbank
Feeding families and individuals who can not afford food.
See more

Discuss this report
Colchester runner

Fri 22nd May 2020 at 7:06pm

Lovely report Vanessa. Thanks for organising.

Join us on our next session

Colchester

Leafleting for Headway #Letsliftthecurfew
🗓Today 6:45pm

promoting upcoming events for local charity

FrazerTav
2 GoodGymers are going - 48 spaces left! 👀