Our task tonight was a return trip to the YMCA shop on Colchester Avenue, a lovely place with some great finds. In fact, my favourite chair in the house is from here!

As it was a longer run, we split into two meet points, the runners got together as usual and started the run to the second meeting point where we picked up the second group. Another nice jog and we were soon at our task for the evening.

When we arrived, there was some juice ready to quench our thirst after the exercise so far. We took a couple of minutes to rehydrate, and some even started to browse the shop floor.

Let's get busy

Michael rounded up the crew, and went through the tasks to choose from....

• Sorting of clothes donations
• Placing YMCA stickers on books
• Vacuum the floor with our good friend HENRY

We split into to groups and got to our volunteering. Hannah & Llion were on book duty, trying not to get distracted by the titles - a great deal to be had though with 6 books for £1. Su took up Henry and started her cleaning mission,

The rest of us made our way to the sorting tables, gloves on and bins ready, those bags were ripped open in a frenzy. Children's wear, shoes and accessories, Men's wear, Women's wear , coats all sorted ready for resale. Anything not good enough was put into textile recycling bags to be sent off later, we lost count of the bags that were gone through but it was a fair few.

Time to stop, we may have gotten carried away so time for a quick group photo and head off back to the City.

Join us next week for more fun!