This week at the foodbank the regular volunteers had been overwhelmed with donations from the public so Vanessa, Nick and Rachel (new to Goodgym, welcome again!) got involved with sorting donations in to food types ready to be date sorted and eventually provided to clients. Meanwhile Dominic and Rachael started to make parcels up (very efficiently) ready for clients on the coming Monday. Unfortunately Christmas always sees the foodbank at its busiest so having a stack of parcels ready to go really help the regular volunteers to have all the time they need to ensure clients are understood and helped.

Upon arrival, Ella was straight on the shopping aisle making up baskets for Tav and Robin to weigh, bag, crate and continue where Dominic and Rachael left off readying parcels. James and Alistair were asked to reorganise the somewhat brimming warehouse and rotate stock (mainly biscuits and cereal this week) to ensure that short dated items are accessible to be given to clients first and longer dated items stacked out of the way for future use. Generously donated items going out of date in the warehouse is avoided at all costs!

Once again, Mike at the foodbank (who can be seen photobombing Tav and Ella) gave his thanks for Goodgym's continuing efforts and asked us back again for following weeks. The warehouse was left in much better shape than when the team arrived with a stack of parcels ready to go out to help those in need.