2 Goodgymers helped other volunteers from LWS Night Shelter with their big move!

The Night Shelter has taken on a new storage facility nearer to the centre of Leamington town centre which will make their life much easier when transporting stock from storage to St John's Church Hall for their food service. In order to make this happen, all stock from the old storage facility needed to be loaded into a van, transported over and unloaded before being sorted and stacked back in date order.

Sounds straight forward right?! The first van full had all the food supplies, a lot of which were tins, bottles of squash and other heavy items, with some crates needing two people to carry them. So we got a real workout getting all the crates down to the van and loading it up. We then headed over to the new facility where they were unloaded and left some of the LWS team there to sort the crates while we headed straight back to get the second van full. This time is was toiletries (including some pretty heavy crates of shampoo, shower gel etc), LOTS of bedding that is used when the over night facility provided by the Night Shelter is running, as well as some items needed to run the food service such as hand gel, toilet roll, takeaway food boxes and cutlery.

A quick bite to eat to refuel, leaving just one more van full of items including yet more bedding, clothing, more toilet roll and a few random odds and ends such as books, games and a guitar - which Nigel attempted to tune whilst carrying it out to the van!

With everything in the new storage facility we had run out of time to get everything completely sorted, so that will have to wait until another day - but at least everything is in! What a workout in this heat - go team :-)