A swift shift

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ealing
Emmanuella Contopoulou
StephDucat
Madhan
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Ealing

Monday 1st January 2024

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As there was no food delivery from CityHarvest today, it's just snacks and hot meals for today. Emmanuella asked Steph and I to do the crowd control for today. We got ourselves a warm jacket and stood outside.

It was rainy and windy and after 7 minutes there were no guests. It was Emmanuella's first time doing the 6-8 pm shift. She was in the clothing section today. It's a very quiet day today as there were hardly 25 guests.

As there was so much food left over, Emma asked us to do a search around the premises and find some guests. Steph and I walked to the Sainsbury's nearby and came back.

There was a guy in a van asking if we could take the leftover food from the NYE party he celebrated yesterday. We declined the offer but he donated a bag of clothes instead. We got a surprise when we opened the bag. It was full of salt and very old clothes.

By 7:30 we started packing the clothes and each of us took a box of food as there were so many leftovers.


This task supported
Ealing Soup Kitchen
A faith-based Soup Kitchen that provides food, advocacy, & practical help for the vulnerable & homeless

Ealing Soup Kitchen is a registered charity set up to help the vulnerable and homeless in the area. Nine local churches support our faith-based Soup Kitchen, which has been running since 1973.

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Sevan

Mon 1st Jan 2024 at 10:30pm

Wow, I've never heard of Mondays' Ealing Soup Kitchen being so quiet. Nice work modelling the hi-vis 🦺

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