Monday 26th August
Report written by Sevan
Sevan joined Steph for the service shift at Ealing Soup Kitchen, with Steph staying on after the earlier prep session. After saying hello, they were dispatched to different tasks on opposite sides of the building.
Steph was dispatched to be crowd control for the food and grocery line, meeting some old friends from his times helping Soup Kitchen on Fridays. Apart from one very merry customer, Steph's time outside was pretty quiet.
Sevan meanwhile was assigned to the womens' clothing tables which were anything but quiet. Each client seemed to bring their own mini tornado in with them, leaving the previously tidy clothes in a jumbled pile. After a while, Sevan gave up on refolding the clothes as he couldn't keep up with the forces of nature that were passing through.
It was task owner Emma's birthday and as a gift to herself, she decided to stop the clothes service early and ask the volunteers to organise all of the existing and new donations. Once everything was sorted, it fell to Sevan and Steph to squeeze everything into the Cupboard of Doom (TM). They managed to squeeze in all of the clothes. There was absolutely no way that the boxes of shoes would fit in, so Steph and Sevan shoved them into any gap that they'd fit into, like a leathery jigsaw puzzle.
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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Help run drop-in service on a Friday where homeless can get free clothes and wellbeing services