Jumbled Sale
9 Goodgymers helped their local community in Haringey
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Wednesday 23rd September 2020
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9 very soggy Goodgymmers were hung out to dry, right after they helped the wonderful folk at Traid get the floor ready after their latest sale.
Everything Must Go
Nurjehan and Kapil put my recovering lungs through their paces as not even the torrential rain stopped them from running a very cool 4.5k before tonight's mission.
Then, upon arrival at Traid, we were welcomed by Veronica and her team who were buried under mountains of clothes and were very pleased to see us.
One by one the rest of our Goodgymmers arrived and we got on with our job for the eve: helping Veronica store all the clothes from the shop floor into gigantic boxes, sorting out different hangers, and generally clearing out the floor.
We crushed it. Our face-masked heroes conquered hill after hill of old clothes at such speed that the Traid team couldn't believe their eyes. It'd take them longer to put together the big cardboard boxes than it'd take our Goodgymmers to fill them up.
After around 45 minutes, Veronica gave us an incredulous smile and thanked us as we had finished.
Quick fashion photoshoot followed and we all then went our merry ways.
Happy days!
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TRAID (Textile Reuse and International Development) is a UK charity working to tackle and solve the problems caused by producing, consuming and disposing of clothes.
TRAID (Textile Reuse and International Development) is a UK charity working to tackle and solve the problems caused by producing, consuming and disposing of clothes. We do this by providing convenient ways for the public to reuse clothes while delivering education to people of all ages to raise awareness of the powerful environmental and social benefits of reducing our clothing footprint. The funds we raise are committed to global projects benefiting the people and places making our clothes. The work we support aims to improve environmental and social outcomes from supporting cotton farmers grow organic cotton to helping retailers to eliminate child labour in their supply chains. Most of the funds are raised through our charity shops, and in order to do so, we hold five Sale periods a year across our eleven branches, these last approximately 2-3 weeks. The last day of the Sale, after closing time, we need to pack the leftovers and leave the shop clear for it to be restocked the following day, here is where your teams can be of much help.
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Thu 24th Sep 2020 at 12:22pm
Love the photos, love the title of the run report, loved the task, loved the dolls and the good folk of Good Gym; who as you rightly point out are " Not for Sale".
