The GoodGym-fam meets the Oxfam
5 GoodGymers made their way 1.0km to help the Oxfam - Magdalen Street in Norwich.
- Sunday, 29th of July 2018
- Led by Katy
The GoodGym Five go on a Sunday Morning Adventure....
Sunday mornings are meant for lie-ins and generally taking it easy right? Wrong! Not if you're five keen GoodGymers eager to help Oxfam clear their shop premises ready for repairs and a re-fit, that is! As this was a Community Mission, we had arranged to meet at the shop where Ben the manager let us in and told us and other Oxfam volunteers what needed to be done. Elizabeth and Rosie arrived first and got stuck in, followed shortly by Katy. The main task at that point was to dismantle the changing rooms and bookshelf trollies - easier said than done when there was initially only one allen key in the whole shop and several trollies to do. We won't mention names but someone had to be reminded a few times that it was 'righty tighty and lefty loosey'........!! We had just finished doing this (very mucky) job and stopped for a well deserved tea break when Calum and Beks turned up and had to be convinced that we really had been working hard! After carrying all the fittings through into the store room the shop was cleared much quicker than expected so the manager decided that work could start on decorating the place. Calum and Beks stayed for the fun bit of trying to drench each other when they were meant to be washing the shop walls!
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A great mornings work helping to clear the Oxfam ground floor
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