600 pots- that’s a noodle one to us

2 Goodgymers helped their local community in Newcastle
Anji Andrews
Liz Bennett
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Newcastle

Wednesday 24th March 2021

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It's been way too long since I was paired up with Liz for a task so it was great today to catch up and do good things at the same time.

We were back to help a few of the regular foodbank volunteers at East End foodbank where every week seems to bring a new challenge!

The deliveries were all set to go and food parcels already prepared to go out so we had a few new jobs to tackle. Liz was tasked with an hour of unpacking an ENORMOUS delivery of Pot Noodles (fun fact: Liz has never eaten a Pot Noodle and is unlikely to after today!) which she really got stuck into. She managed to unpack and stack 600 before we ran out of time!

I had a job that required more skill than I anticipated- breaking up a crate full of cardboard boxes and re stacking them. It became like a perilous game of Jenga by the end but I got it done.


This task supported
East End Women
A project supporting women with skills and training, education, loneliness and domestic abuse recovery.

East End Women offers practical courses for women to build confidence and skills around DIY, sewing, pattern cutting and basic trades. We also deliver the Freedom Programme domestic abuse recovery course, helping women to better understand the roots of domestic abuse and build confidence to identify warning signs in the future. In addition to this, East End Women also offer social activities and drop-in sessions for women experiencing isolation to meet one another, make friends and build local networks.

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