Food Bank Extravaganza

20 Goodgymers helped their local community in Oxford
James McLoughlin
Megan
Thomas Heath
Bryony Thomas
Hattie Elvins
Samantha Drewett
Laura Brown
Milly Haven
Louise Hall
Kieran
Ben Foster
Matt Burton
Holly
Vicky Arnold
Jessica Lorimer
Sarah
Bethan Greenaway
Rachael H
Anwen Greenaway
Jane Hotchen
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Oxford

Wednesday 23rd February 2022

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Last night was GoodGym Extravaganza night at the foodbank!

Oxford Mutual Aid's food bank is a busy operation, running 7 days a week. As such it can be hard to find time to thoroughly clean, organise and prepare portions of bulk goods. That's where a GoodGym extravaganza comes in - 20 people can really blitz through those tasks in not much more than an hour.

Things we did:
* Tuna, baked beans & tea stock count
* Organised baby supplies and toiletry shelves
* Pulled those shelves out & cleaned behind them
* Pulled out the tables and stored stock along the long side of the hall (uncovering the grand stone fireplace), cleaned behind, reorganised as we put it all back
* Decanted all the bulk bags of rice into household sized portions
* Cleaned the fridges
* Checked for mouldy fresh fruit and veg and took out the food waste
* Separated some of the M&S crates from the Tesco ones - the only effective tool for this turned out to be an old mop handle. Whatever works, eh?!
* Put away some bags of donations we found
* Swept and mopped

We’ve had lots of thanks from Oxford Mutual Aid for all your hard work:

“Christ Alive: thank you SO MUCH to goodgym - you are some legends!”

“GG EXTRAVAGANZA left the hall so clean that it was impossible to take a picture because glare.”

After all the hard work we stopped for cookies and cake to celebrate our 3rd Birthday last Sunday, and gave our 3 new Run Leaders a round of applause for completing the training. Well done Ben, Bethan and Sarah!


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Anji Andrews
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Thu 24th Feb 2022 at 10:43am

This looks mega satisfying! Nice one.

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